The Obligatory "how was the toronto auction" thread

[menace]

So anyone go?  How was it?

[Grauwulf]

Chaotic and very, very wet. And of course, an hour after it was all over, the sky cleared up and it was fairly nice out. Go figure.

There were a 197 lots, a lot of newer, larger stuff, so almost half of the machines were outside under tarps. There was a bunch of junk (aka fixer upper) games. There was a very nice Joust cabinet that had been converted to SFII that went for $25.

It was truely one of the weirder auctions I have been to with the combination of weather, bidding frenzies on stuff you wouldn't have expected and the selection and amount of stuff there. I can't wait for the next one!

[menace]

So were the prices going crazy like the last one?  So when is the next one?--it will likely be the dreaded christmas auction where everyone thinks 1000$ is fair for a beat to h3ll hollow cabinet...

[Grauwulf]

Well I wasn't inside the main building when they were doing the majority of the expensive stuff, but the older, somtimes banged up stuff seemed to be pretty reasonable. I got a working Tekken2 in a decent 25" Dynamo cabinet for $150. A working Die hard went for a little less than that. I also got a working Aero Fighter in an Aladdin's Castle cab pretty cheap.I would have bought more, but all I had was a small truck and $100 of my own money to spend. Getting those two home was hard enough with the weather being what it was.

[GGKoul]

Damm.. I totally forgot about this auction.