Like others, I'd like to fill up a container and expand my current location. However, I'd be way upside down if I paid auction prices for 50 of these machines.

Most pinball auctions end up in ridiculous price territory, and with the visibility this one has it will be worse. Add on to that a big buyers fee, CA tax rate, and the extra cost of logistics, I'd be better off just overpaying locally.

The only buyers that are going to be happy are the ones looking for an obscure EM that no one else wants, or someone willing to pay anything for a rare title.

The market timing for the sellers couldn't be better.

I already looked at pods for this.
They only use 8 footers for cross country and it was going to be over 3500 to get to Atlanta.
Another reason I’m skipping.

None. The rare ones will be way overpriced and anyone willing to pay that will be bidding already. If they don't like the hammer price they won't like the Pinside price.

The captain's catalog is searchable and has a watchlist function. Do you really need more than that?

what time does the entertainment start today?

Open up the Live auction page and you can copy the results out of the Lots grid at the bottom of the page.

That's funny since the Baby hasn't sold in the auction yet. It is lot 1296.

No wonder he was charging you so much - you think palapas are Tahitian.

It's just you.

Yeah I’d buy a nice DK or two for $2+gs but I’m not donating to help him start up a new arcade.

Doubt it. The list was pretty heavy EM and early SS, newest machine was 1997, with almost a third of them were pre-1970.

Banning was a much newer collection. This list feels like it could have been a single person's collection, not a bunch of random machines assembled for an auction. I paid attention to both auctions and don't see any real connection/crossover.

Troll- thanks for the list

Other than the 5K Volcano, I thought all the prices were pretty reasonable for an event like this.

I would have backed the truck up for a bunch of those EMs. Ignoring the zizzles, there were 180 machines at $1000 or less hammer price.

Yes you could. The net price on that one was over $12K with fees and taxes. There was more than one bidder at 9k so there's at least one more person looking for one.