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Winston Salem Fairground Auction

By KDub

11 years ago


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    #10 11 years ago

    I'm sitting this one out. I always come back disappointed. High hammer prices and poor selection most of the time. There is a few good ones but they are few and far between. Hooked is right about the LOTR from the last one, it was rough and went for way too much.

    B_R you nailed it, too much competition. It's something to see what kind of crowd gathers when they start to auction the pins.

    #15 11 years ago

    There's really not any "deals" to be had, even if you are a seller or tax exempt, and it's still hard to get a deal. The last auction a MB that needed new decals, pf work etc, went for $5700 I think. Add at least 17% and any deal is out the window.

    They are a lot of fun to go attend if you go in knowing you will more than likely go home empty handed. Lots of other pinheads to talk shop with and most games are on free play.

    #26 11 years ago
    Quoted from JDG1980:

    tvbenk said:The last auction a MB that needed new decals, pf work etc, went for $5700 I think. Add at least 17% and any deal is out the window.
    You're assuming the buyer was planning to fully restore the game and resell it for a profit. Maybe he/she just wanted a MB that was less expensive than the fully restored examples on eBay/MrPinball and didn't care about the cabinet decals or whether there was some wear around the scoop or Drac-track.
    Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it 7% sales tax plus 10% buyer's fee *if* you didn't bring anything of your own to sell at the auction? If the buyer was a home user but *did* bring something from his/her own collection to sell, the total would have been $6100. They might have preferred that to paying $8500+ for a fully restored MB if they just wanted a machine to play.

    Yes how silly of me to assume that. As for bringing something to sell to get out of the buyers fee I've heard both sides to whether or not that works.

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