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paigeoliver:
As far as the mythical "Doo Rag". Who isn't really mythical, since I have had a face to face conversation with the man about monitor repair.

The auction company itself owns a decent portion of the games and it simply doesn't sell them below certain prices. Usually this manifests itself as a single buyer who buys and sells a ton of machines. Complicating issues even more is that the same buyer might also truly have some games they personally own in the auction and will likely be buying for the auction company themselves. The buyer is often the famous Mr. Do! himself, but will sometimes be a young muscular Italian looking guy in his mid 20s, or any other superauction employee.

Basically, the auction house itself owns some of the games, and they go from one auction to the next, only selling if someone REALLY wants to put out some bucks. There are no deals on those games, they are mostly just there to inflate the number of available games.

Essentially there isn't jack you can do about it. Also, MOST sellers bid their own games to some extent, it is allowed and it is part of the sale process. I always bid my own machines up to at least a minimum cost. Like my last Mame cabinet I bid up to $500. The bidding kept going after I dropped out and it went to $800.

ponyboy:
Many people tend to stay away from the old Taito games because they believe there are no parts for them.  Most of Taito's pieces were excellent street pieces.  They were made for the street operator.  Such as Double Dragon, Operation Wolf, Under Fire, CHase H.Q., Super Chase just to name a few.  Well don't be afraid.  I have been supplying Taito parts for games manufactured between 1987 - 1996 for just about 8 years now.  Since Taito went out of business in 1996.  If anyone needs Taito parts drop me a line.

Ponyboy

paigeoliver:
DO you have Operation Wolf optic boards?

RacerX:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on January 08, 2005, 09:31:13 am ---Essentially there isn't jack you can do about it. Also, MOST sellers bid their own games to some extent, it is allowed and it is part of the sale process. I always bid my own machines up to at least a minimum cost. Like my last Mame cabinet I bid up to $500. The bidding kept going after I dropped out and it went to $800.

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Oh, there's something I can do about it all right.  I can *not* bid on those games.   :P

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