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Quoted from Whysnow:the experience would be worth it EVEN if you came back empty (you wont... not in OK with that many to select from)
I'd go but there's only one that I'd actually drop cash on and without some kind of guarantee...eh. I've gone to Tulsa to buy a game before. It's an EXCEEDINGLY boring drive from Dallas.
Quoted from LTG:Well, if he died, he wasn't in great condition.
LTG : )
ouch lol
I need a proxy and someone to bring a game down here if it wins. =X
Wonder what the pickup timeframe is if you win a remote bid? 
*edit* WHY AM I EVEN ASKING THIS. I'M ONLY INTERESTED IN ONE GAME AND I DON'T WANT TO SPEND MUCH AT ALL, AND ALREADY TURNED DOWN THE HELP OF SOMEONE THAT OFFERED. IDIOT. 
Quoted from cottonm4:Stencil the can and you will have a nice OC.
Won't be OC at that point. #CAPTAINOBVIOUSSTRIKESAGAIN
Quoted from NicoVolta:They’re doing “buyer’s choice”. Ffffffffffffffff.
Five at a time. Highest bidder gets first choice and can optionally buy 1-4 more at same price.
Bidding then continues for the rest. Not a fan... but oh well.
Wait....what the Popaduik?
So you just bid on nothing, whoever agrees to buy 'nothing' gets to pick a game, then pick 1-4 more at same price without any further bidding? o_0
You would think that would have been critical information to tell people up front, because that's total hor#)%&*@!it
Well, thanks for explaining. That sucks. Asked someone to keep an eye on one specific game. Odds of that seem to be about zero based on that process. Bummer. I don't get how in the crap they were going to handle remote bidding on ONE item via either method they explained if they're expecting people to consider a potential lot of five games!
Quoted from NicoVolta:It’ll be ok if he groups similar pins together, but if we see one premium woodrail with another premium 70’s or solid state... he’ll be pitting different bidders against one another for completely separate items.
Could be drama today... no idea. Big crowd!
lol...tell Shawn I said hi. Why am I not suprised he is there? 
Quoted from jrpinball:Let us know which one, and if you got it or not. I know if I was there, there's one in particular I'd be after. Maybe five or six others, but one in particular.
I doubt it would be something that would generally be expected for me to want. It's a woodrail. =P
Just got word. It was Lightning Ball. It sold for 900 to a remote bidder. Almost 4x what I was interested in spending on a game with unknown completeness and cabinet condition....
Have at it, people. Enjoy your losses a few years down the road. That's literally higher than a Lightning Ball has sold for on ebay in the whole time Bostonpinball has been tracking sales. /facepalm
Quoted from Shapeshifter:Certainly high for the condition as really nice and I mean really nice would be $1200.
That one was a $600.
I'm not paying more than 300 for a 40+ year old game that I haven't seen in person. I've looked at enough EMs in person local to me to know that 97% of them will not fit within my standards of 'decay acceptability' lol.
Quoted from jrpinball:Wow. I recently saw an ad for a pretty decent "Lightning Ball" project for $475. Not a game I really like, so I let it pass.
I only wanted it because I have this thing about needing to have owned a game from every major era, and I've never had a woodrail. I think it would look amazing next to Crescendo. Gameplay be damned, Crescendo isn't much of a winner with most people in that regard either.
Quoted from jrpinball:"Lightning Ball" has a very drab playfield. The woman on the backglass reminds me of a rather unattractive woman I used to work with. I like the cabinet though.
Would love to do a woodrail conversion of "Sweet Hearts" into that cabinet because the graphics are essentially the same.
Drab? It's colorful, wierd, and super tacky! Like Crescendo! But not...drab. I'd settle for 'unexciting', but I quite like the simplicity of it. The backglass art is pretty much exactly what I picture in my head when I think of old super cheesy sci-fi. Kind of like how the Star Trek Voyager guys had a fake Flash Gordon knockoff that was just terrible. I'm kind of a schmuck for stuff in that vein.
It's like Yin and Yang...they'd just go together...look at it...
Quoted from jrpinball:I don't know if the one I was offered is still for sale, but I could find out for you if you'd like. I don't do Facebook, but it was a Facebook ad which someone (who isn't into woodrails) sent to me. I don't know for sure where it was located, but for some reason, I think it was Pennsylvania.
At the point I'd need to ship one, I might've as well paid 900 bucks, plus...I'm kind of over the whole shipping games thing. It's bad enough fretting over a NIB when you know you can always refuse it and Stern will just send out a new one or whatever, but when it's a really old, irreplaceable game...ugh. I'd really rather handle it myself or have someone experienced doing it.
Quoted from MPierce:Be prepared for CL in the Oklahoma area to be full of overpriced pins.
Say what?
tulsa.craigslist.org link
tulsa.craigslist.org link
This guy didn't even take them out of the place before he took pics to post on Craigslist, INCLUDING THE AUCTION LOT LABELS.
Whoever Joshua is...what a turd...IMO
*edit* I was beat to the punch, didn't finish reading the thread, but point still stands. At least take the game out and remove the auction tag, douchebags...
Quoted from Darcy:Hey, hey!! No trash talk or suggestion of abuse here on EMside....
Clearly, you've never lived in the Texas pinball community. A friendly ribbing and trash talking are like water in the Sahara down here!
Quoted from VacFink:I'm probably on the fringe collecting these as art objects that you can play too.
Not as much as you think. The only reason I bought Crescendo in the first place years ago was because my wife liked the backglass. I'm the idiot that liked the gameplay enough to repaint a playfield for it. That's also why I was interested in the Lightning Ball at this auction. I've never actually PLAYED a Lightning Ball, nor do I particularly care to, but I do want to own a woodrail and think that modest use of gobble holes is one of the best pinball things to be obsoleted.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:I dunno, the account is 6 years old with only 171 posts, and while his thumbs are about half down, half up, he has only been subject to moderation once, in this very thread.
When you make .078 posts per day, it's kind of hard to generate enough material to get reported for.
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