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mark shaker:

--- Quote from: Ummon on April 14, 2008, 01:16:43 am ---Yesterday, there was an arcade auction in Tempe, AZ. This was my first arcade auction. It was hosted by Super Auctions, and they were great. An honest business, and a real professional and nice group of people.


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At least now I know where all their working machines went. They held the Detroit Auction on the same day. It was by far the lamest auction I ever attended. There were about 15 pins and about 25 working vids, and about as many broken vids. I left before the bidding started.  (I probably should have stayed around to see what "The Sopranos" pin went for.)

Super Auctions honest? That's funny! Watch out or you'll find yourself bidding against someone WEARING A SUPER AUCTIONS TEE SHIRT!

I have bought from Super Auctions in the past, and I probably will buy from them in the future. I just make sure I know the value of what I'm bidding on and who I'm bidding against.

   - Mark

HaRuMaN:
Nobody with a SA T-shirt bid...

Although, the auctioneer seemed to be getting frustrated with how low games were selling for...  I felt that everything was on the up-and-up, as well.

Dartful Dodger:

--- Quote from: mark shaker on April 14, 2008, 05:12:02 pm ---Super Auctions honest? That's funny! Watch out or you'll find yourself bidding against someone WEARING A SUPER AUCTIONS TEE SHIRT!

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It's not the super auction people you have to worry about, it's our fellow BYOAC guys.  The problem I have with super auctions is they don’t police the viewing or pick up portions of the auction enough.  I’ve bought two games from them both of them were great deals.  I just made sure the boards were locked in place, I tested them right before the viewing ended and I was one of the first ones there to pick it up.

At both of the auctions I went to they were throwing those t-shirts into the crowd during the lunch break.

I was using the one I caught as a work around the house shirt, but now that I know it'll scare off potential bidders I'll save it for the next auction.

HaRuMaN:
AFAIK,

There was only 3 BYOAC'ers there: myself, Somunny, and Ummon.  Fortunately, we were all interested in different things.  :)

Ummon:

--- Quote from: somunny on April 14, 2008, 09:48:58 am ---That Impress looks great.  Amazing what a good cleaning can do.

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Yeah, it was really dusty inside, too. Later, when I saw the price on that Xybots, I felt bad for you man.



--- Quote from: HarumaN on April 14, 2008, 06:53:52 pm ---AFAIK,

There was only 3 BYOAC'ers there: myself, Somunny, and Ummon.  Fortunately, we were all interested in different things.  :)

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Yep, just us. As for SA, they're just a service. You have the stuff and they come and host it. So each auction is local. This one just happened to be a rare situation (I think, anyways) in that you didn't have a ton of dealers, there weren't a million people there, those who were there weren't going to spend a million dollars and they wanted certain things, and then there were the few peculiarities like the power in the place and my candy not coming on.

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