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No more MAME at Superauction
paigeoliver:
ALthough at the prices they are bringing it is no longer profitable to make them on anything other than a hobbiest level. At $575 for a 19" Mame cabinet the builder is left with $488 after fees. Assuming he managed to build it for $300, that leaves $188 profit, probably meaning he is making a fat $5 an hour or less on the cabinet.
nostrebor:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 20, 2005, 03:24:34 pm ---ALthough at the prices they are bringing it is no longer profitable to make them on anything other than a hobbiest level. At $575 for a 19" Mame cabinet the builder is left with $488 after fees. Assuming he managed to build it for $300, that leaves $188 profit, probably meaning he is making a fat $5 an hour or less on the cabinet.
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I agree that at those prices, I wont be wasting my time to make up a bunch of MAME cabs for auction. I might be tempted to do a Jakks Pacific cab at the $650 price point. :o We just watched the bidders duke it out with our jaws hanging open! Of course the marquee said Ms Pac/Galaga ::) and the auctioneer sold it as such. You couldn't even coin the thing up!
The one thing I will say is that the buyers at the auction yesterday were very tight and remotely interested. It was a totally different atmosphere than the St Louis auction I went to last fall.
DrewKaree:
It seems as if the KC auction (that's where you were at, yes, nos?) has price differences that aren't indicative of prices in other areas. You said in another thread the highest price paid for a game was ~$650, IIRC, but I've been to many auctions where that would be the average price paid, with some going for far more than that, and the other auction reportings I've seen show the same thing.
Mebbe I need to start making road trips to MO for their auctions....I've got access to free trailers....I could probably make a KILLING reselling them.
Fredster, mebbe we need to meet up for a road trip somewhere! ;D
Mame machines have been at every SuperAuction I've been to, and the least one has sold for was ~$500 for a GHETTO mame job that I've gotta believe no one here would look at as "worth it". I've also been on hand to see a VERY nicely done MAME machine sell for $1350 :o WITHOUT ROMS!
paigeoliver:
The mames aren't selling for crap at the St. Louis superauctions either. My last one went for either $550 or $575 and it was the highest price one there and the only one that wasn't a buyback.
I had one sell for $400 like a year and a half ago,
nostrebor:
Paige,
At the pre-Christmas auction in St Louis didn't that 4-player MAME sell for around $2,400 or so? That price just blew me away at the time. In your experience, is the pre-Christmas auction the one to sell a MAME at?
Drew,
It's OK with me if you just stay in your designated area. We don't need no foreigners skewing our game prices down here :police:
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