So the wifey and I were watching the Sevierville auction video on Youtube. Her curiosity got the nest of her and she actually wrote down every single game, its winning price, and what bidder won it.

Bidder 400 paid $55,000 + bidder's fees, taxes, etc....

That's a heck of a haul!

And it got me curious. Who was it?

Obviously an operator in the area, but is it someone like a Dave & Busters? Or another FEC in the area?

On a side note, that Munster's sold for $5,000. Was there something wrong with it that hardly anyone bid on it?

#2 3 years ago

TEE

Grandnational007

Pinside member

Berlin, CT

6y 64,300 1,144 12 17 1

Munsters is kind of a dog...

Old man theme that the youngins don't recognize, shallower code than most 90's games, annoying multiplier button mash meter, etc.

#3 3 years ago

JME

smalltownguy

Pinside member

Humboldt, IA

11y 32,050 72 2

Bidder 400 was most likely an unofficial employee of the auction company. They buy back and take to next auction. Of course they'll deny that, but those games mysteriously end up at the next auction. That's what used to happen anyways.

#4 3 years ago

MDM

Black_Knight

Vertigo

Blue Ridge, GA

9y 115K 3,065 109 33

Are you sure they weren't buy-backs? That auction lets the owner buy it back for a $10 fee since they don't have reserve prices. There have always been a lot of buy backs there, but it's harder to see when it is in person.

$10 is way better than loosing $100's on a Munster's.

#5 3 years ago

JEC

bluespin

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Johns Creek, GA

7y 141K 9,126

Bidder 400 is probably Scott Wright. Scott Wright is based out of Peru IN and buys tens of thousands of dollars of items at the Seiverville and Winston Salem auctions each time. He usually shows up with 5-6 trucks to each auction to haul it all away and then sells everything on Facebook.

#6 3 years ago

ROB

transprtr4u

Pinside+ Frequent

Edmonton, AB

10y 130K 8,405 3 1

What do you get for 55K?

#7 3 years ago

JJJ

Novastorm

Inactive member

Nijmegen

5y 23,150 82 5

Quoted from transprtr4u:
What do you get for 55K?

Topper

#8 3 years ago

ROB

transprtr4u

Pinside+ Frequent

Edmonton, AB

10y 130K 8,405 3 1

Quoted from Novastorm:
Topper

Lol

#9 3 years ago

DGH

DudeRegular

Pinside member

6y 111K 3,417 108

Quoted from bluespin:
Bidder 400 is probably Scott Wright. Scott Wright is based out of Peru IN and buys tens of thousands of dollars of items at the Seiverville and Winston Salem auctions each time. He usually shows up with 5-6 trucks to each auction to haul it all away and then sells everything on Facebook.

This is the correct answer. He bought a big buck arcade i was selling for around 700 and it was on facebook for 1500 shortly after.

#10 3 years ago

COZ

Coz

RiverCity Arcade

6y 125K 3,818

Buy backs by the sellers are why I don’t attend these auctions. They can “bid” against you to raise the price of their own games. Or maybe they get their buddy to bid against you as well when they have no intention of actually purchasing

#11 3 years ago

SBS

o-din

Pinside+ Addict

11y 158K 58,796

Quoted from Grandnational007:
Munsters is kind of a dog...
Old man theme that the youngins don't recognize

Old man theme that even some older men no longer care for. At least in a new pinball game.

And somebody that would pay over $50k for any pinball machine has more throwaway money than most of us.

#12 3 years ago

KNT

Coindork

Pinside member

Cave Creek, AZ

7y 147K 4,623 20 74

Quoted from o-din:
And somebody that would pay over $50k for any pinball machine has more throwaway money than most of us.

I think what he’s saying is the total of all lots hammered down to that bidder number totaled over 50k. Not 50k for one machine.

#13 3 years ago

BZY

Brazy

Pinside member

9y 54,900 515 16

Quoted from bluespin:
Bidder 400 is probably Scott Wright. Scott Wright is based out of Peru IN and buys tens of thousands of dollars of items at the Seiverville and Winston Salem auctions each time. He usually shows up with 5-6 trucks to each auction to haul it all away and then sells everything on Facebook.

That's what I was thinking...

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