Quite the auction this time. Good to see some volume and options, seems to keep the prices a little lower than when there's only 10 machines.

Alot of Pin's,, but the Prices vs's Condition Sucked !!! I bought Nothing ,, and the AFM Looked Terrible .. If it Had Been better , I Would've bought it..

The Banker bought Godzilla for $ 1500.00 Cash ,, ( my Cash ) from Green-Coin before The Pin's were sold !!

NBA 3K?? WTH?

That FT although it had some weird issues (solenoids randomly firing) had hardly any insert issues or PF wear and would clean up nice. Big time Cab fade, tho. Of all those prices, I'd say that was the best deal.

SST at 950, not bad
Robocop at 600 is a very good buy

Good to see everybody

Wow, those prices seem high...I guess thats the market though...even if some were buy backs.

How were the TAF's?

Both TAF 's had Issues,, I wanted the I500 , It Needed a Shop BAD , Flipper's were Soo Slow,,
Credit Dot City ,, and it Sold for $ 1925.00 ... Income Tax Money was Being Burned !!!

Jack bought the Best TAF ,, I will be Shop'd and 4-Sale in a Few week's .. I'll Post it Here when
he get's it Ready with Pict's added..

How does one go about finding a pinball auction? Are there any coming up in the midwest anytime soon?

AFM for under $4K???? Someone's coming home happy.

I would totally have bought the robocop

I was offered the Robocop after the Auction by the Buyer for $ 800.00 . I Played a Game on it ,
it Did Noth-n for me.. It was Super Clean tho !!!

what were the fees (auction and state taxes), 20%? It makes the I500 close to $2400, which is pretty high if needing a shopping and DMD

Came home with a few deals but even the arcades were getting ridiculous....

I missed this , but im broke ....too would have loved to gone and gottin myself in to debt

How was the Operation Thunder?

totally thought about it. Really cool backglass. Everyone is right about the % the auction takes if you're buying for home-use. Kinda fun to go regardless.

Yikes, I sold mine for $2200 and it was damn near perfect.

That had to be one rough AFM.

10% buyers fee, 7% sales tax. If you sell something, then you only pay $10 on a purchase + sales tax. If you are 'in the business' and not a home buyer you also avoid the 10% buyers fee. If you have a tax exempt cert, you avoid the tax.

one of the nices PF's there.

The deals were on the drivers behind the second row of pins. I looked over there were five to six people with the caller and the drives went under 300 (hydro thunder -somthing 4x4 and another)
They had so much there the normal rows were getting messed up. (normally the drivers are on the outside edge, also three pins were in the first row and went cheap. Fully working Dolly went $350 would have been higher in the pin rows. Just the boards and display were worth that much.
Could have been a good platform for Lost Vegas.

Shadow was the big gamble...popped but no dmd action or boot $1200. Best thing for it was the pf was complete and the cab was good.

see the other thread. beat up fairly bad.

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/wsalem-feb-4th-arcadepin-auction

uh-oh, those are fightin' words.

me neither. i kinda knew you were kiddin'. shoulda put a smiley in there.

Jack bought the one that would not play and had a bit of magnet burn on the playfield.The other TAF was playable but needed all new ramps.I think he did ok.

robertmee, are you certain of this? I brought a sign that I was going to put in the auction and hopefully save some cash if I picked up a pin. The girl in the office and one on the floor both told me there was no fee waived if I was a seller, so I didn't even take it out of the truck.

Ended up not getting a pin, the ones I was interested in went too high. Met B_R and some of the other pinsiders and pick up a new glass (thanks Andrew!), so was a good day.

Almost certain, unless they've changed something recently. Ask B_R or HOOKED as they've both recently sold/bought items at the auction. Maybe they were thinking you were talking about a seller's fee, which there is....$10 for buying an item.

In fact, now that I think about it, Mike (not sure if he's on pinside) sold an item and bought one. I saw his checkout slip. He wasn't charged the 10% buyers fee....Just the $10 sellers fee.

Hmm, yea maybe there was a misunderstanding. Worked out for the better anyway since I didn't get anything. I'll bring it again next time.

My Bad !!! Jack bought the TAF w/ NO Topper !!! Can't Rem- which was Nicer now.. And Thanxx Lori for Sett-n me Strait.. Jump on my Back Anytime !! I can Take it ..
Glass's huh ,, LOl,,, I Only wear them when I'm soldering or read-n..

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