Just started watching the auction. Prices seem high to me, but I haven't purchased working machines in a while...
Lot #2 Superman wide-body sold for $3700.
Lot #3 Sky Rocket EM sold for $2600
Lot #4 Nitro Gound Shaker sold for $2300
Quoted from mark532011:Just started watching the auction. Prices seem high to me, but I haven't purchased working machines in a while...
Lot #2 Superman wide-body sold for $3700.
Lot #3 Sky Rocket EM sold for $2600
Lot #4 Nitro Gound Shaker sold for $2300
Insane.
Don’t forget to add about 20-25 percent in taxes and fees. Plus shipping costs, which will likely be astronomical for people who use the auction’s suggested shipper instead of Navl. I won Dio’s couch at auction and they tried to charge me $1400 to have it shipped from LA.
Prices will be absolutely stupid for this action. Like most of you 10 people I know who don’t know anything at all about pinball except that I’m into it texted me about this auction. Another 5 texted my girlfriend about it.
They’ve done a killer job promoting this thing so it won’t just be pinball people bidding on games.
a few more winning bids
Eight Ball Champ $2300
Waterworld $4900
Time Line $2800
Spanish Eyes EM $2700
Algar $3300
Red Max EM $5900
I am not going to post all the sales, but I thought there would be some interest in the first 25 sale values:
The Amazing Spiderman Pinball Machine Gottlieb $3,500
Superman Pinball Machine Atari SS $3,700
Sky Rocket Pinball Machine Bally EM $2,600
Nitro Ground Shaker Pinball Machine Bally SS $2,300
Eight Ball Champ Pinball Machine Bally Midway SS$2,300
Waterworld Pinball Machine Gottlieb $4,900
Time Line Pinball Machine Gottlieb SS $2,800
Spanish Eyes Pinball Machine Williams EM $2,700
Algar Pinball Machine Williams SS $3,300
The Red Max Rare Pinball Machine Bally $5,900
Spin Out Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $1,700
Special Force Pinball Machine Bally $1,900
Harlem Globetrotters On Tour Pinball Machine Bally SS $3,800
King Kool Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $1,900
Escape from the Lost World Pinball Machine $2,800
Scorpion Pinball Machine Williams SS $3,000
Comet Pinball Machine Williams $3,000
Hollywood Heat Pinball Machine Gottlieb $3,500
Monte Carlo Pinball Machine Gottlieb $3,400
Big House Pinball Machine Gottlieb #1 $5,300
Diamond Lady Pinball Machine Gottlieb $3,800
Ready Aim Fire Rare Pinball Machine $2,900
Jacks To Open Pinball Machine Mylstar $2,800
Lights Camera Action Pinball Machine Gottlieb $3,000
Gladiators Pinball Machine Gottlieb $2,900
I refuse to believe these are real prices. There is no way someone is really buying a Big House for $5300, not to mention the fees and taxes on top of that.
Gotta be a money laundering scheme or something.
Quoted from Bugsy:I refuse to believe these are real prices.
Whether you believe or not. It is happening.
Quoted from Bugsy:Gotta be a money laundering scheme or something.
You are over thinking the ignorance of a lot of people with money and no idea what they are doing.
LTG : )
winning bids:
Silver Slugger Pinball Machine Gottlieb $2,900
Big House Pinball Machine Gottlieb #2 $2,800
Rack 'Em Up Pinball Machine Mylstar $2,300
Super Orbit Pinball Machine Mylstar $2,300
Operation Thunder Pinball Machine Gottlieb 1992 $2,300
Q-Bert's Quest Pinball Machine Gottlieb $8,800
Rock Encore! Pinball Machine Gottlieb Premier $3,300
Excalibur Pinball Machine Premier SS $3,300
Spirit Pinball Machine Gottlieb SS $6,300
Black Hole Pinball Machine Gottlieb SS $3,800
Haunted House Pinball Machine Gottlieb SS $5,500
Ice Fever Pinball Machine Premier SS $2,500
Pink Panther Pinball Machine Gottlieb SS $4,300
Rocky Pinball Machine Gottlieb SS $10,000
Touchdown Pinball Machine Premier SS $2,900
Bounty Hunter Pinball Machine Premier SS $2,400
Surf N Safari - Pinball Machine Gottlieb $3,600
Class of 1812 - Pinball Machine Gottlieb $4,600
Title Fight - Pinball Machine Premier SS $3,300
Cactus Jack's - Pinball Machine Gottlieb Premier SS $3,000
Raven - Pinball Machine Gottlieb Premier SS $2,400
Gold Wings - Pinball Machine Gottlieb Premier SS $2,700
Cue Ball Wizard - Pinball Machine Gottlieb Premier $3,900
Barb Wire - Pinball Machine Gottlieb $3,600
Rescue 911 - Pinball Machine Gottlieb $3,700
You can watch it live at https://bid.captainsauctionwarehouse.com/m/view-auctions/live-sale/id/80 without logging in, and there's a table of all lots with updating prices at the bottom of that page (but thanks mark532011 for posting the prices on Pinside too!)
The Facebook streams have higher quality video: https://www.facebook.com/arcadecaptain/videos/
There's also another discussion happening at https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/banning-pinball-museum-to-relocate
Street Fighter II - Pinball Machine Gottlieb Premier SS $4,800
Freddy A Nightmare on Elm Street - Pinball Machine Premier SS $5,800
Stargate Pinball Machine Gottlieb Premier SS $5,300
Fast Draw - Pinball Machine Gottlieb $3,500
Vulcan Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $3,100
Dragon - Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $3,000
Jungle Queen - Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $2,800
Bronco - Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $4,200
Super Soccer - Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $2,800
"300" Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $2,300
Jet Spin - Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $2,300
Target Alpha Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $2,400
Gridiron Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $2,400
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $4,000
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Pinball Machine Gottlieb SS $3,200
Pyramid Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $2,800
Cleopatra Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $3,200
Cleopatra Pinball Machine Gottlieb SS $3,000
So far Rocky selling for 10,000 is the big surprise. (The hammer price is the sale price, right?)
Someone in the other thread called it a "white cabinet Rocky". Does that just mean the cabinet isn't the original cabinet, or has been painted over?
Does anyone know if there's anything special about this particular Rocky?
Edit: I checked it out and there's not, they would have mentioned it in the description.
Quoted from mark532011:Bronco - Pinball Machine Gottlieb EM $4,200
WTF??? Seriously?? I refuse to believe this one. My co-worker's father passed away and gave me Bronco for free. This price is more than 3x regular price.
Wow.... I really wanted to bid on Abra Ca Dabra... but if these prices continue... I'm NOT Biding on ANY.
I don't know anything about arcades and it looks like the rest of the evening will be all arcades. here are a few and what they went for.
Gotcha Classic Atari Arcade Game $4,900
Bagman Classic Arcade Game $3,300
After Burner Classic Arcade Game $1,500
Ataxx Arcade Game $1,400
Slither Classic Arcade Game Rockola $3,000
Eyes Classic Rockola Arcade Game $1,900
Jump Bug Classic Rockola Arcade Game $1,200
Nibbler Classic Rockola Arcade Game $2,700
Pengo Classic Sega Arcade Game $1,600
Warp Warp Arcade Game $1,000
Amidar Classic Arcade Game $1,000
Lost Tomb Classic Stern Arcade Game $1,300
Silk Worm Arcade Game $1,200
Amidar Classic Upright Arcade Game Stern $1,000
Scramble Arcade Game $1,400
Super Cobra Upright Arcade Game $1,200
Samurai Arcade Game $9,900
Shinobi Sega Classic Arcade Game $1,500
Congo Bongo Arcade Game $1,900
Buck Rogers and the Planet of Zoom Sega $1,600
Sega Turbo Outrun Arcade Game $2,200
Outrun Sega Racing Arcade Game $2,400
Monte Carlo Arcade Game $3,200
Power Drift Sega Driver Arcade Game $1,400
Great 1000 mile rally Arcade Game $1,100
Great 1000 mile rally2 Arcade Game $1,000
Championship Sprint Atari Arcade Game $2,400
Double Axle Arcade Game $1,300
Midway's Shuffle Board Arcade Game $1,300
Quoted from Electrocute:Prices seem high, maybe time to cash in!
People were saying that 6 months ago with the intent to rebuy later. Hope now isn’t the “later” they were planning on.
Quoted from Methos:Some of the prices aren't that bad....
Quoted from oldbaby:So far Rocky selling for 10,000 is the big surprise. (The hammer price is the sale price, right?)
No.
Add 18% Buyers Premium on top of hammer price, plus 7.75% CA Sales Tax.
The Rocky cost the buyer $12,700 bucks.
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Quoted from Lermods:Water world $4900??? Something not right here.
Well, it’s actually $6,230.10 when the extras are added on. 
rd
Double of what it sits for right now on ebay, As with most of those prices.
Quoted from rotordave:Well, it’s actually $6,230.10 when the extras are added on.
rd
These prices are all on the high end. I bet it's a combination of:
(1) People have pinball money to burn but few NIB in 2021 means extra funds to use up.
(2) From a museum, bidders are expecting top quality per machine.
(3) The publicity for this auction was off the charts. Everyone is watching this thing, and it only takes two people to want the same pin to make prices go up.
Quoted from rotordave:Well, it’s actually $6,230.10 when the extras are added on.
rd
Quoted from ThePinballCo-op:These prices are all on the high end. I bet it's a combination of:
(1) People have pinball money to burn but few NIB in 2021 means extra funds to use up.
(2) From a museum, bidders are expecting top quality per machine.
(3) The publicity for this auction was off the charts. Everyone is watching this thing, and it only takes two people to want the same pin to make prices go up.
4) some shenanigans going on.
Anyone else feel like this auction is the beginning of the end? I can’t help but think that there is going to be some unintended consequences from all of this. These are my morning toilet thoughts.
Quoted from ruralcollector:Anyone else feel like this auction is the beginning of the end? I can’t help but think that there is going to be some unintended consequences from all of this. These are my morning toilet thoughts.
The end of what?
Quoted from Methos:The end of what?
The demand and pinball craze? Not for people around here necessarily, but for the general public.
Right now it’s cool to have a pinball machine in your house. I haven’t been around the hobby long enough but I get the impression that 20 years ago that might not have been the case.
Quoted from Bmanpin:This auction has received national media coverage ex: The Today Show, maybe these are truly uninformed buyers? Great notoriety for the hobby however.
Even my wife had heard about it over here .
So sad , it was on my bucket list to get to 1 day 
I recently helped some friends auction off their metal fab business. Afterwards, there were lots of mysteries. People who bid on scrap steel sheets and paid MORE for them than new prices. People who bid, and paid, thousands of dollars for machines they NEVER picked up. Then, some machines worth $50K easily were rushed through the auction (the auctioneer didn't do the old going-going-gone and hammered almost right away) and sold for $4,000.
The fact that these machines were at a 'museum' adds panache for a lot of people. For the rest of their lives, they'll be able to confide, "It came out of a museum...."
Maybe celebrities and people with obscene amounts of money wanted in on the fun. Why is it hard to believe that people other than broke Pinsiders who nickel and dime every for sale ad are buying these games? There are probably also a few fluff bids going on, but that's been going on since the SuperAuctions from days of yore.
Quoted from Agent_Hero:Maybe celebrities and people with obscene amounts of money wanted in on the fun. Why is it hard to believe that people other than broke Pinsiders who nickel and dime every for sale ad are buying these games? There are probably also a few fluff bids going on, but that's been going on since the SuperAuctions from days of yore.
I think many pinsiders are far from broke. I think it’s hard for some of us with knowledge of historical price values and gameplay value to see some of these titles going for so much. It’s probably a multitude of variables at play.
Saw some of the selling prices in above posts....
I think I am going to hire the auction company to sell my collection. Lmk if anyone interested. I am kidding but only half way.
For the wealthy it's a convenient one stop shop to fill a home arcade.
"The boss gave me $200k to buy them 50 games"
They don't care if they're good deals or not. It doesn't matter.
The goal is to fill their arcades not find bargains.
My question is, who gets the money from this? I thought the majority of the machines were donated\purchased with donated money. Unless I missed something somewhere.
hammer prices add up to over $420K so far, only about 10% of the way through the auction, about $3200 average. I feel like it's gotta cool off a little for the next segments, and definitely next weekend.
With the New York Times specifically mentioning that POTC could go for $35K I bet that will get close (and if there's a Stern POTC there I bet it gets wrapped up in the same hype). For some reason different media outlets reported the whole collection was $8MM for 1300 games, $6100 average, NYT reported $7MM for 1700 games, $4100 average (there are only 1386 lots in the catalog).
Quoted from misterschu:. I feel like it's gotta cool off a little for the next segments, and definitely next weekend.
I doubt it, it may get worse... the guy who bid 9900 on Rocky and lost to the guy who bid 10k is gonna realize he better step up his game if he wants to win something..
When Baywatch (or whatever the next pin he is interested in is) comes up for sale, well goddamnit nobodys gonna beat him this time...
he-wont-be-pushed-around (resized).jpgQuoted from Methos:Why is it so difficult to believe that millions of people all over the world that now have a shit load of $ from cyrpto, bailout $ etc, and now want to buy pinball games?
Makes more sense to buy a pinball than an NFT.
Quoted from cosmokramer:I doubt it, it may get worse... the guy who bid 9900 on Rocky and lost to the guy who bid 10k is gonna realize he better step up his game if he wants to win something..
When Baywatch (or whatever the next pin he is interested in is) comes up for sale, well goddamnit nobodys gonna beat him this time...[
... waiting on a $9900 Baywatch... 
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