Author Topic: Southern Ontario BYOAC meet at starburst? (Read 2626 times)

menace · « **on:** February 24, 2004, 02:39:42 pm »

I'm going to the auction this saturday and think it would be cool to meet others from the area at the auction-(I already have all the machines I need so I don't care if you guys drive the prices up

) anyways, the address is 717 kipling ave--So far me, my brother, and mmpeanutbutter are in, any others?

GGKoul · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2004, 02:48:56 pm »

I'm going this weekend too.. I'll be wearing a Red Roots Canadian Hockey jacket.

-Kostas (GGKoul)

JoeB · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2004, 10:14:16 am »

I'll probably make an appearance, just to see what's there.

what time does the viewing and bidding begin again??

menace · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2004, 12:42:18 pm »

viewing starts at 9:30 and auction begins at 11:30 (or so--they aren't very punctual)

Brax · « **Reply #4 on:** February 25, 2004, 07:13:10 pm »

Hmmm, I'd like to show up. I need a few parts. Their hours don't usually jive with my schedule so it's nice that their parts department is open on Auction Saturdays. My buddy needs some microswitches so I may drag him along too.

menace · « **Reply #5 on:** February 26, 2004, 12:27:48 pm »

Any chance of setting up a "meeting area" at a certain time--say like 10:30 or so--picking out people by color of jacket is going to be fun to say the least

JoeB · « **Reply #6 on:** February 26, 2004, 03:41:17 pm »

ehehehe..

lets start off..

Name: Leon
Build: 6' 2" white male. Dark brown hair. Late 20's.
Wearing: blue jeans with a black/yellow ski jacket with the words "IBM" stiched in the left arm.

We can always decide to meet outside next to the sign at 10:30. Bring a sign that says BYOAC ..

Brax · « **Reply #7 on:** February 26, 2004, 06:51:32 pm »

Hi Leon!

My name is Brad and I'm an Arcade-a-holic.

A BYOAC sign? Darn! All I have is a NERD sign!

menace · « **Reply #8 on:** February 27, 2004, 10:56:49 am »

we haven't discussed who's bringing the beer yet--what would a canadian function be without beer?

just a bunch of arcade geeks standing around freezing their gonads off...

Chazz · « **Reply #9 on:** February 27, 2004, 11:00:07 am »

I'm In!!
Have we decided where we're meeting, or how we know who's who?

menace · « **Reply #10 on:** February 27, 2004, 11:07:20 am »

Alright you guys, here's the deal--i'll write BYOAC on a slice of cardboard and hang on my truck (red mazda) (either at the front or the back depending on where i can park)and we can meet there--I should get there around 10:30 -11:00--I'm stu--6', blonde hair green and white jacket.--come introduce yourself

GGKoul · « **Reply #11 on:** February 28, 2004, 01:30:19 am »

Haha.. I'll bring my camera to take a picture of that.

Me: Wearing: Red & Black jacket
6'0 short short black hair...

See you guys there

-Kostas

Brax · « **Reply #12 on:** February 28, 2004, 04:35:46 pm »

Well, that was fun!
I met up with a few of the board members. (Hi guys!)

Prices seemed pretty reasonable overall. There were tons of pins this time around!
The first 5 cabs went dirt cheap. $25, $25 (midway cocktail), $50 (1942), $25 (cabaret), $25 (cabaret) There was a nice Austin Powers pinaball machine there that my buddy was drooling over ($1750) which is apparently pretty cheap. (I overheard an operator saying he'd pay that.)
A huge pedestal Big Game Hunter went for $1000 bucks and right beside a pedestal baseball game went for $600ish dollars. The monitors must have been in the 32" range.

On my way home I saw a truck driving down the QEW loaded with the Big Game Hunter, a 25" hockey game and a 25" football game...... The truck had New York plates. He got a pedestal game for $1000 Cdn! That's arounnd $600 US isn't it? I'm not positive, but that seems like a pretty good price to me.

Overall it was a fun time and it was good to meet a few of the BYOACers.

p.s. Isn't it fun to play a $5000 LoTR pin for free? Wheeeeeee

Any purchases out there?

GGKoul · « **Reply #13 on:** February 28, 2004, 04:57:36 pm »

Where were the other BYOAC's members at this auction? Didnt you see the awesome BYOAC sign in the back??

It was my first auction and I learned an important lesson today...

For the older cabs.. Bid first and bid @ $25 for them.. If I did that... I probably would have gotten 3 or 4 working cabs for under $100. 1943 $50, Operation Wolf $25 and Alien 3 with 2 guns $75. Mortal Kombat 3 went for $125....

I was looking to get a pinball machine, but I didnt have $1000 bucks to spend... Maybe I will come April

It was nice meeting everyone today.

-GGKoul

Brax · « **Reply #14 on:** February 28, 2004, 05:00:23 pm »

I have to add:

Menace made up a sign so we could recognise each other...... Bums, begging for food have nicer signs than this one!! Crude, but it WAS effective. Menace promised a fully lighted BYOAC marquee for next time. I'm expecting full classic artwork, 3' x 5' should do the trick. Chase lights would be a nice addition.

JoeB · « **Reply #15 on:** February 28, 2004, 05:08:03 pm »

Menace was there!?

I didn't see him.. I did meet up with another board member there. I left after the MK3 bidding.. the prices were too high.. good weather, big turnout.

The only thing I really wanted was that cherry cab. Excellent body, excellent 27" monitor.. very little work. But 550$ is a lot of $$$!!!! There's gotta be a place that sells them for cheaper!

As far as the cheap cabs.. they went for so little because most had burns on the monitor.

I wonder how much those 2 short pins went for (Star wars episode 1 and the other one a few isles down from it)

menace · « **Reply #16 on:** February 28, 2004, 05:36:55 pm »

Yes I must admit my signage was a little on the ghetto side but it managed to snag a few guys

I'm going to see if I can get that scrolling light marquee made up for the next one

--I have 2 cabs and a star wars yoke to finish so we'll see. On the plus side I did manage to have some guy throw $.25 at me--mumbled something about "damn homeless people everwhere"..or something...

Nice meeting you guys and we'll see you at the next one and next time I'm bidding! I should be beaten for driving my truck home empty after those prices

GGKoul · « **Reply #17 on:** February 28, 2004, 06:27:35 pm »

Menace.. are you making an Star Wars Yoke?? Or did you happen to find one out in the wild??

As I need to get a hold of one.

GodSend25 · « **Reply #18 on:** February 29, 2004, 09:21:52 pm »

Quote from: Brax on February 28, 2004, 04:35:46 pm

Well, that was fun!
I met up with a few of the board members. (Hi guys!)

Prices seemed pretty reasonable overall. There were tons of pins this time around!
The first 5 cabs went dirt cheap. $25, $25 (midway cocktail), $50 (1942), $25 (cabaret), $25 (cabaret) There was a nice Austin Powers pinaball machine there that my buddy was drooling over ($1750) which is apparently pretty cheap. (I overheard an operator saying he'd pay that.)
A huge pedestal Big Game Hunter went for $1000 bucks and right beside a pedestal baseball game went for $600ish dollars. The monitors must have been in the 32" range.

On my way home I saw a truck driving down the QEW loaded with the Big Game Hunter, a 25" hockey game and a 25" football game...... The truck had New York plates. He got a pedestal game for $1000 Cdn! That's arounnd $600 US isn't it? I'm not positive, but that seems like a pretty good price to me.

Overall it was a fun time and it was good to meet a few of the BYOACers.

p.s. Isn't it fun to play a $5000 LoTR pin for free? Wheeeeeee

Any purchases out there?

Did you happen to catch how much the star wars and rocky & bullwinkle pins went for?

menace · « **Reply #19 on:** March 01, 2004, 06:58:24 am »

star wars was 1375 (it needed some major TLC too) and I didn't catch rocky and bullwinkle--ask GGKoul --he was in the fray while the bidding was on.

GodSend25 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 04, 2004, 07:23:11 pm »

Did anyone end up getting a price list?


Main	Restorations	Software	Audio/Jukebox/MP3	Everything Else	Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements	Monitor/Video	GroovyMAME	Merit/JVL Touchscreen	Meet Up	Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing	Woodworking	Software Support Forums	Consoles	Project Arcade	Reviews
Automated Projects	Artwork	Frontend Support Forums	Pinball	Forum Discussion	Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board	controls.dat	Linux	Miscellaneous Arcade	Wiki Discussion	Old Archives
Lightguns	Arcade1Up	Try the site in https mode		Site News


Unread posts \| New Replies \| Recent posts \| Rules \| Chatroom \| Wiki \| File Repository \| RSS \| Submit news