Sometimes I think you have to get a little lucky at the big auctions. I've been to there several times with my 50' extension cord and couldn't afford to buy one pin, always out bid. One of the pins was a WPC Party Zone had been in a fire and smoked bad went for a lot more cash than I imagined. Then I saw several guys walking around with camera phones and lots of cash in their hands taking pics of different pins and sending them to potential buyers. They did the same thing with arcade stand-up vids. I wanted the Taxi pin I was playing so bad. Man, I thought, I'm bidding against people that might be laying in bed. I'm sure there are steals at auctions, just not been my experience with system 80 and newer.

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