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Title: Is the Milwaukee Auction worth a road trip?
Post by: Crazy Cooter on December 28, 2004, 07:37:16 pm
What's a ballpark guess at how many sub $100 machines with good sideart/glass will be at the Milwaukee super auction?  It's a 5-1/2 hour drive so I'm just wondering if it's worth it.  I'd be dragging a trailer of course.

Mainly I'm hoping to grab 3-4 machines out of the non-working row that can be cleaned up enough to go into mine & my brothers houses.  Think it's worth the drive?
Title: Re: Is the Milwaukee Auction worth a road trip?
Post by: coachcarstens on December 28, 2004, 08:09:54 pm
At the one in december, if I remember correctly, only 3-4 total machines in that row went for under 100.  that is what I was there looking for, and I came home pretty empty.  I live in Elkhorn, which is about 45 min away from the auction.  If you want more details, I'd be happy to share.

Chris
Title: Re: Is the Milwaukee Auction worth a road trip?
Post by: Crazy Cooter on December 28, 2004, 09:16:06 pm
Nuts.  That's what I was afraid of.  Glad I asked though.
Title: Re: Is the Milwaukee Auction worth a road trip?
Post by: mrGrinch98 on December 29, 2004, 02:48:30 am
I would be willing to share costs to go down to the auction.  If interested, email me at tsatorius@yahoo.com.
Title: Re: Is the Milwaukee Auction worth a road trip?
Post by: DrewKaree on December 29, 2004, 07:32:12 am
Cooter, if it'll help you, I'd be willing to let you buy whatever you wanted and store it at my house for several years or until you forgot about it, whichever comes first  ;D

Seriously, though, I've been to the last 3 out of 4 auctions, and there aren't many that sell for under $100, but there ARE a bunch in the 200-300 range....I've seen very few that don't work - about 2-5 per auction.

I'll be going later that day....at LEAST not until 1-ish when they'll have those ridiculous slot machines sold off!
Title: Re: Is the Milwaukee Auction worth a road trip?
Post by: unclet on December 29, 2004, 11:55:17 am
DrewKaree:    You avatar is very funny.....did you do that yourself?
Title: Re: Is the Milwaukee Auction worth a road trip?
Post by: Shape D. on December 29, 2004, 12:18:19 pm
When is said auction?
Title: Re: Is the Milwaukee Auction worth a road trip?
Post by: scooter on December 29, 2004, 01:50:09 pm
It looks like Jan 8.

Super Auction Dates (http://www.superauctions.com/dates.html)
Title: Re: Is the Milwaukee Auction worth a road trip?
Post by: DrewKaree on December 29, 2004, 08:45:42 pm
DrewKaree:    You avatar is very funny.....did you do that yourself?
No, it's all over the internet, you can probably find upwards of a dozen sites with it, I just resized it

The Milwaukee Auction is on Saturday the 8th, dropoff of auction items is Friday night, open inspection from 8-10 Saturday morning, 11 for auction start - USUALLY tokens and slot machines, which usually lasts for about an hour, hour and a half depending on how many slot machines they have....everything else is after that. 

Depends on what they've got, but I'm expecting a buttload of machines to be there this time.

Mebbe even one of those big swines like a 3-in-1 redemption machine again  :o