Auction Results: June 18, 2005 - Rockford, IL (complete)

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Complete results for 964 lots.

Since this was not a consignment auction, things were done a bit
differently. Instead of the crowd following the auctioneer around and
seeing each piece powered on during bidding, this sale took place
entirely outside the building. If you did not take notes during the
preview period you probably got screwed. Many of the pieces were
either parted out, partially working or not working at all. Rumor has
it that this operator sold off his routes, cashed out all the good
equipment and the leftovers were auctioned off at this sale.

What was most surprising to me was that all the nice skill stops --
obviously trucked in by Super Auctions -- were sold at the end of the
day when maybe only 10 people were left. Even at that, the machines at
$50 were (probably) buy backs against three bid numbers. Still, $55
for a later model working skill stop wasn't a bad price, IMO.

If anyone can fill in any details on stuff they may have purchased at
the sale (e.g. the "Unknown" video game cabinets), feel free to email
me and I'll add that info to the database.

Link to specific sale page:

http://www.gct21.net/~johns594­/ar [...] ?evnt=1­50

Auction Database:

http://www.gct21.net/~johns594­/arcade/auction/auc.php

Brian
johns594 at goct dot net

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I heard that all the skill stops had parts missing which is why they were
being sold for so cheap.

Mike Fox
Algonquin, IL


"johns594" <johns594@goct.net> wrote in message
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Complete results for 964 lots.

Since this was not a consignment auction, things were done a bit
differently. Instead of the crowd following the auctioneer around and
seeing each piece powered on during bidding, this sale took place
entirely outside the building. If you did not take notes during the
preview period you probably got screwed. Many of the pieces were
either parted out, partially working or not working at all. Rumor has
it that this operator sold off his routes, cashed out all the good
equipment and the leftovers were auctioned off at this sale.

What was most surprising to me was that all the nice skill stops --
obviously trucked in by Super Auctions -- were sold at the end of the
day when maybe only 10 people were left. Even at that, the machines at
$50 were (probably) buy backs against three bid numbers. Still, $55
for a later model working skill stop wasn't a bad price, IMO.

If anyone can fill in any details on stuff they may have purchased at
the sale (e.g. the "Unknown" video game cabinets), feel free to email
me and I'll add that info to the database.

Link to specific sale page:

http://www.gct21.net/~johns594­/ar [...] ?evnt=1­50

Auction Database:

http://www.gct21.net/~johns594­/arcade/auction/auc.php

Brian
johns594 at goct dot net

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I get this message every time I try and look at the results. And I'd
really love to see the results!

Warning: Failed opening
'/usr/home/johns594/public_html/arcade/auction/auc.php' for inclusion
(include_path='./use/home/*/public_htmlusr/local/lib/php') in
Unknown on line 0

Brian Johnson wrote:
> Michael Fox wrote:
>
> > I heard that all the skill stops had parts missing which is why they
> > were being sold for so cheap.
>
> The skill stop I bought was working fine for well over an hour last
> night. They all looked complete to me, but I didn't take the time to
> test any of them during preview. Only four of them were missing keys.
>
> Nobody even bid on the bags of new tokens, but the auctioneer would not
> go below $10. So much for "everything sells regardless of price."
>
>
> One more try at those URLs (not posting via Google this time):
>
> Link to specific sale page:
>
> http://www.gct21.net/~johns594/arc [...] p?evnt=150
>
> Auction Database:
>
> http://www.gct21.net/~johns594/arcade/auction/auc.php
>
> Brian
> johns594 at goct dot net

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The server admin decided that too many people were hitting the page.

I've tweaked the database script so it's less memory intensive now.
The results should also be returned a little quicker because of this
change. Give it another try.

http://www.gct21.net/~johns594/arc [...] p?evnt=150


DarkKobold wrote:

> I get this message every time I try and look at the results. And I'd
> really love to see the results!
>
> Warning: Failed opening
> '/usr/home/johns594/public_html/arcade/auction/auc.php' for inclusion
> (include_path='./use/home/*/public_htmlusr/local/lib/php') in
> Unknown on line 0

Brian
johns594 at goct dot net

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If there are no notes with the results (ie. "no boards", etc.), does
that mean they were working and in fair condition, or unknown? If they
were working, I would have had to make several trips to this place and
back here with all the stuff I could have bought.

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Matt Renshaw wrote:

> If there are no notes with the results (ie. "no boards", etc.), does
> that mean they were working and in fair condition, or unknown?

Most games were not working and many were not even complete. The
cabinets were in fair to poor condition, but there were a few gems.
If it sold cheap, it probably wasn't working.

There was no way to make complete notes on each machine due to the huge
number of lots. The two and a half hour Saturday preview absolutely
flew by and the next thing you knew you were being kicked outside where
you had to bid on the items based soley upon the notes you were able to
scribble down.

> And what's this under Star Trek?
> "Not working, "Hope you've got a fire extinguisher!""

Someone shouted out the "Hope you've got a fire extinguisher" line
after the item sold. Obviously, the GO-8 monitor had -- or was about
to have -- some electrical issues.

Brian
johns594 at goct dot net