At the Texas Pinball Festival we will be holding the first ever pinball auction. It will be on Saturday March 29, 2014 at 6:00 PM.
There will be 100 pinball machines offered and bidding will be live at the TPF as well as online at www.proxibid.com/pinball.
See auctionpinball.com for further details.
Quoted from nordseth:At the Texas Pinball Festival we will be holding the first ever pinball auction. It will be on Saturday March 29, 2014 at 6:00 PM.
There will be 100 pinball machines offered and bidding will be live at the TPF as well as online at http://www.proxibid.com/pinball.
See auctionpinball.com for further details.
AWESOME!
Very excited about this feature at TPF!!!!!
Didn't even see 1 SS Bally/Williams machine from 70's/80's...Boo Hiss!!
Looks like FUN is blowing out their collection. I wouldn't be too surprised if they bid their own stuff up.
It was hard to believe that FUN was getting the crazy prices listed on ebay. Wonder why they didn't just start their ebay auctions at a buck to blow them out?
Quoted from nordseth:teekee,
State sales tax will apply to Texas residents unless they have a resale certificate.
There is a 10% buyers premium for live bidders at the sale (cash).
Thanks for clearing that up... good luck with the auction.
Quoted from Pdxmonkey:Wow lots of cool titles...
Will the games be on site?
Yes. Thats one of the cool features of TPF this year. In addition to the hundreds of pinball machines normally/already at the festival, all of these auction games will also be at the festival too... on free play... and ready for testing before the auction.
It should be a good increase in the total number of playable pins VS 2013, which was already extremely large.
Gosh, every auction I've ever been to had the games ranging anywhere from barely playable to dead. This should be interesting to watch!
I looked for any terms regarding buybacks, and all I found was that they have reserves on some (so probably most) of them. OP, care to clarify? Will you be bidding beyond the reserves?
Quoted from teekee:So 23.25% added on to pretty much any purchase?
Very reasonable. Sounds like a SuperAuctions.
Quoted from nordseth:Pdxmonkey, All of the gpinballs will be at the Texas Pinball Festival and can be tested before the auction.
Quoted from Jared:Yes. Thats one of the cool features of TPF this year. In addition to the hundreds of pinball machines normally/already at the festival, all of these auction games will also be at the festival too... on free play... and ready for testing before the auction.
It should be a good increase in the total number of playable pins VS 2013, which was already extremely large.
Now we're talking!
Sounds fun.
I'm glad to be going this year!
Quoted from DanQverymuch:I looked for any terms regarding buybacks, and all I found was that they have reserves on some (so probably most) of them. OP, care to clarify? Will you be bidding beyond the reserves?
No comment?
Quoted from nordseth:Dan, sorry for the slow response.
I am not clear on what you mean by bidding beyond reserve?
He wants to know if you're going to have shill bidders in the crowd pushing prices up beyond the listed reserve, since that's allowed here. I'm not sure why he'd expect that question to actually get answered, and not sure how we'd ever know since I doubt everyone here knows who does and doesn't work for you? They could be in the crowd or bidding online and nobody would ever know who they are. You're still allowed to buyback/bid on your own items in TX even if the reserve is met, right?
You are right. In Texas, if the auctioneer announces an item is being sold with reserve, the owner can bid on his own item.
We are going to be offering some pinball machines with reserve and some without reserve at this sale.
Quoted from nordseth:Big Bang Bar pinball will be the highlight of the auction.
Definitely interested to see if this sells (I'm sure there will be a reserve) and, if so, for how much?
Quoted from nordseth:You are right. In Texas, if the auctioneer announces an item is being sold with reserve, the owner can bid on his own item.
We are going to be offering some pinball machines with reserve and some without reserve at this sale.
Good job dodging the question.
Are you or your agents going to be bidding on machines after they have met their reserve, or not?
Quoted from nordseth:Dan, No owner or their agents will be bidding on any machine that has met the reserve price.
Cool, thanks.
Quoted from nordseth:The proto Banzai Run has a the XR7 playfield and red boards. It is number 10 of only 10 produced.
Any way we can get some sweet pics of this?
Quoted from burningman:is the total lineup 16 pins?
lol.. nope.
https://www.proxibid.com/asp/catalog.asp?aid=74497&ipp=100&sort=0
Quoted from burningman:ah thanks Bakushan....I went the website (pinballauctions) and it listed only a few games
Its a bit confusing, huh?
So I'm watching a few of these machines to see what they end at.. I have a couple questions for anyone that can answer:
1. Anyone have something shipped to a terminal (IE airport or trainyard I imagine? which is $200 vs $400 direct to door
2. It shows 15% buyers premium, but then says "sales tax" in details but doesn't say what the tax amount is, do I pay tax even if I'm buying out of state? (IE I'm not physically going to be in texas, I plan on bidding online)
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