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Title: KC Superauction - anybody else go?
Post by: MinerAl on October 02, 2004, 05:11:04 pm

I wish I had kept better track of the cabs and prices.  There were probably 60-75 full size cabs, 2 cabarets, 4 complete/nonfunctional space invaders cocktails, 3 pinballs, 2 driving cabs, one light gun game, and a bunch of redemption games.  Also severalteen slots.

Not the biggest auction ever; the crowd was small and things went cheap.
The cabarets and the first few games went for >$400.   By the time they got to the third row, everything was going for less than $100.  The space invaders tables went for $65, $55, and $45x2.

I got a good condition pacman cab with a working taito golf game in it for $35.  I'll have to get a poorly applied coat of black spray paint off, but it'll make a fun project.  I just couldn't stand to not get it for what I'd pay for an empty cab.

There was a Playboy pinball that went for $650, and the gun game went for >$500 too, otherwise it was a bargain extravaganza.

Fun way to waste a Saturday morning.

I hope the low prices and turn-out don't keep them from coming back to KC.

Anybody else go?  I was the overweight nerd.  Heh.

Title: Re:KC Superauction - anybody else go?
Post by: nostrebor on October 02, 2004, 05:15:09 pm

I wanted to go  :'( Had to work instead >:( Your news really sucks  :(  Congratulations on your cheap buy :)

Title: Re:KC Superauction - anybody else go?
Post by: walls83 on October 02, 2004, 05:18:48 pm

I had to work too.  that sucks  :'(

Title: Re:KC Superauction - anybody else go?
Post by: Kremmit on October 02, 2004, 08:16:49 pm

I just wish the same kind of bargains would happen at the San Jose, CA auctions.  Damn Sillicon Valley nerds for driving up our prices out here!

Title: Re:KC Superauction - anybody else go?
Post by: Pipercub on October 03, 2004, 07:42:24 pm

Sheesh, that is a fraction of what they go for out here in the D.C. area at the Baltimore auction.

Title: Re:KC Superauction - anybody else go?
Post by: rjarcade on October 04, 2004, 07:37:25 am

I almost went.  Damn.  Too bad that I missed it.

Title: Re:KC Superauction - anybody else go?
Post by: Dav on October 04, 2004, 11:10:05 am

Quote from: rjarcade on October 04, 2004, 07:37:25 am

I almost went.  Damn.  Too bad that I missed it.

A lot of the machines at the KC Superauctions are buybacks.  The people who run the auction own a lot maybe even most of the games.  So you are actually bidding against the owner.  If you go to the next Des Moines auction they usually have a lot of the same games since they couldn't sell them and the auction people "won" most of the auctions.  If you watch during those auctions you'll notice the same 1 or 2 people usually buy most of the games.  Then they just happen to have a really large trailer there.   Not that this is neccessarily a bad thing.   Before they started bringing their games they would sometimes have less than 10 videogames at the auction.  The buyers quit going because there was no sellection and the sellers quit going because there was no buyers.