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No more MAME at Superauction

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paigeoliver:
Yes, but that one was a big old giant cabinet, and there were only 2 bidders in that auction, the person who bought it and the person who sold it. The seller spent most of the preview period showing and explaining the machine to one guy and that guy bid big and the seller bid him up big.

I sold a 21" cabinet at that same auction for $800, which is the best price I have ever gotten for one at Superauctions.

Selling mames at superauctions is a real crapshoot, and you have to guard them like a hawk, people love to screw with them, I severely doubt I will bring any more of them to superauctions.

nostrebor:
Yup. That cabinet was HUGE. I was off playing some game when it sold, so I didn't realize that the owner was bidding it up. You would think that the guy who bought it would have noticed?

I visited with you about your cab as well. You might remember me... I stink at 4-player Pong :'(  That was actually the first time I had set my hands on a Pong machine (botleg or otherwise). It is definitely not my strong suit ;) I did practice on Arkanoid at the auction yesterday, but I still stink. You still have that one don't you?

 I personally would be quite happy to get $800 for my MAME as I've only got $350 in it. But at that rate my labor would be almost free. I guess that I'll just stay with buy only at the auctions for now.

paigeoliver:
I knew the owner of that cab, he always invests a lot more in them than I do. I'll put like $300-$400 into a 19" cab, and he will spend a grand doing a 19" cab. Mine will have an old cheapo 500 mhz comp, his will have a brand new one, mine will have an old monitor, his will have a brand new one, etc, etc, scale that up to a big cab and you see why he has to bid his up.

He had a nice 19" one at the last auction that he had to bring home, he had $1000 in it and there were 6 mame cabinets there, mine was the only one that actually sold ($575). I didn't WANT to bring mine home so I let it sell at that price. I think his got bid up a bit higher than mine, but still way less than his cost.

I am also not going to bring anything else to superauctions anymore because in the past when I have brought a single high dollar item on saturday morning they have put it in the first row, this time I brought 3 items one high dollar and 2 cheapies, they agreed to put the good item in the first row and they did, then one of the big sellers complained and they skipped my machine (and the aformentioned $1000 19" cab) and didn't do them until darn near the end of the auction.

That was a big mistake on their part, made me mad enough where I won't sell with them again, I'm not making a 100 mile round trip the day before to bring ONE game to the stinking auction. That little trick also meant they lost out on getting some higher prices too, I didn't buy ANYTHING because I didn't know how much I had to work with, there was a dedicated Neo 2-slot and a converted Midway mini that I would have went a good deal higher on if I knew I had $575 to spend. Instead I let the mini go at $75 and didn't bid on the Neo at all. I bought NOTHING at that auction.

The ironic part is that the guy who complained had to buy his 2 mames back, he actually bought them back twice, he bought them back at $500 each the first time, then had them sell them again after mine went $575 and he bought them back again for less than mine (his both actually looked nicer, but mine was the only 4-way vertical machine there, and that is what a lot of people want). I have no beef with that guy though, I know him too, he didn't realize he was complaining about someone he knew, and it was really on superauctions for going back on their word. The PROPER thing would to have simply told me that next time I had to have it there on friday to get it in the first row, not to unplug my machine and skip it.

Pipercub:
Yeah, the Baltimore auction in 94 was a bit strange. They went through the drill of pretending they never heard of multi game NAMCO boards and refusing to sell them just as the auction was starting through the first row. Rumor was a Namco rep had shown up.  They skipped a few multi williams units and did sell a few other multi units without explaination. There was a fully restored Defender at the auction, THE reason I was there above all others was to score a Defender and this one was sweet. I was very worried that they would not sell it because it DID have a multi williams board in it and not only that, it had the selection menu enabled instead of booting up into just Defender AND it had a sign on it listing the dozen or so games it played (of course the CP was Defender only so you could not control the others...) But thankfully they did auction it and I won it. Funny though, one multi williams was outlawed and the Defender was allowed, it was based mainly on the cabinet artwork.

delta88:
this is a funny topic. I have been to auction up here in Mich to see a few members from this very board sell mame cabs with slowslowslow pc's in them..talkin 166-200mhz for the old games.. they made a few bux, A little bid up here or there to make it a worth while trip and bamm a little extra cash to buy another game.  I think its fine to sell um but just not crappy ones... thats a crime..

Heck, I have built several for friends and always get good $$ for it too. more or less they come to me and say " I saw that on internet, tv, someone elses house" I want you to build me one.. well ok.. get a nice cab, new pc and controls and away we go!  that a crime?

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