American Amusement Auctions - April 23rd Westbend, wi
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TimmyFnD
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So how was it? Were there any decent pins and what did they go for? I got called into work this morning and didnt have the time to drive up there and want to know what I missed.
Thanks,
Tim
Thanks,
Tim
Very disappointing.
That is all I will say
That is all I will say
Magog
New member
Here is my take...your experience may vary.
Compared to the last few West Allis auctions...a LOT of games.
Most of the games were things I was not interested in, saw what I assume were a number of buy backs. Maybe 5 pins, of course South Park (I am pretty sure that is the same that has been at the last few auctions). A Ton of not working games, as a matter of fact I would go so far as to say more games with "issues" then complete and working games. One thing to note this was the SLOWEST moving auction I have ever been to.
The massive frustrations that I had was there were two games that I was planning on bidding on. Crystal Castles and 720. After an hour and a half we get to the crystal castles and they just skip it. They wrote pass on the tag. A number of people were asking what happened. Heard a few stories both which I think are likely but regardless if you wanted to not sell the damn game you could have written pass on the tag an hour and a hlaf ago. So fast forward another hour+ and we get to the 720...and the SAME BULLSHIT. THey pass it and a few others. No explanation, and like I said people were wheeling shit out already why not take it out or write not for sale on the damn thing. Honestly probably for the best. 720 needed a lot of work, and had board issues, I don't need another project but meh...
The other frustration, was their was a Pole Position cockpit and they started going towards it to sell it. Then whups lets walk and do these pool tables and air hockey tables no one gives a shit about. At that point we left.
No food, no drinks, one bathroom that smelled like bigfoot's dick.
We heard all of the FAMOUS SUPER AUCTIONS QUOTES:
"It was working yesterday!"
"It's probably a fuse"
"Just needs a Cap Kit"
"It's DED-uh-KATE-DID"
"We are never coming back to Wisconsin again"
"This is the Last Pin we have hear (3 times)"
That was my take on it...the auction anyways.
Compared to the last few West Allis auctions...a LOT of games.
Most of the games were things I was not interested in, saw what I assume were a number of buy backs. Maybe 5 pins, of course South Park (I am pretty sure that is the same that has been at the last few auctions). A Ton of not working games, as a matter of fact I would go so far as to say more games with "issues" then complete and working games. One thing to note this was the SLOWEST moving auction I have ever been to.
The massive frustrations that I had was there were two games that I was planning on bidding on. Crystal Castles and 720. After an hour and a half we get to the crystal castles and they just skip it. They wrote pass on the tag. A number of people were asking what happened. Heard a few stories both which I think are likely but regardless if you wanted to not sell the damn game you could have written pass on the tag an hour and a hlaf ago. So fast forward another hour+ and we get to the 720...and the SAME BULLSHIT. THey pass it and a few others. No explanation, and like I said people were wheeling shit out already why not take it out or write not for sale on the damn thing. Honestly probably for the best. 720 needed a lot of work, and had board issues, I don't need another project but meh...
The other frustration, was their was a Pole Position cockpit and they started going towards it to sell it. Then whups lets walk and do these pool tables and air hockey tables no one gives a shit about. At that point we left.
No food, no drinks, one bathroom that smelled like bigfoot's dick.
We heard all of the FAMOUS SUPER AUCTIONS QUOTES:
"It was working yesterday!"
"It's probably a fuse"
"Just needs a Cap Kit"
"It's DED-uh-KATE-DID"
"We are never coming back to Wisconsin again"
"This is the Last Pin we have hear (3 times)"
That was my take on it...the auction anyways.
Magog
New member
However the cool part.
Got to meet and hang with some really cool folks.
The girlfriend didn't kill me for sitting around being bored.
Got to check out KillerKades arcade...
THANK YOU AGAIN!
He has the nicest collection I have seen, musuem showpieces everyone one of them. Awesome guy there! Gave me some ideas for mine, and man am I jealous!
Oh and now I really want a Warlords cocktail.
So ultimately I had an awesome time today...auction aside
Got to meet and hang with some really cool folks.
The girlfriend didn't kill me for sitting around being bored.
Got to check out KillerKades arcade...
THANK YOU AGAIN!
He has the nicest collection I have seen, musuem showpieces everyone one of them. Awesome guy there! Gave me some ideas for mine, and man am I jealous!
Oh and now I really want a Warlords cocktail.
So ultimately I had an awesome time today...auction aside
Wu
Member
Joust ,Star Wars ,Stargate ,none of them working and cheap .
This is their first auction in WI and 2nd auction this new company ,auction and check out is slow ,I think they did a ok job.
This is their first auction in WI and 2nd auction this new company ,auction and check out is slow ,I think they did a ok job.
Magog
New member
Joust looked nice. The CPO was new and I think the marquee was as well. The sides were painted or laminated. But like a lot of the other games it wasn't working. Star Wars was playing blind I guess. The yoke seemed decent. No front art or side art...I am sure the buyer will get his money back on it though. Star gate I didn't wait to see. I saw Star Gate thought of Defender got a headache and moved on .
And they had this accident waiting to happen I think it was a Hydro Thunder
.And they had this accident waiting to happen I think it was a Hydro Thunder
ripondan
Member
I'm going to say its the worst auction that I've been to. It was the first time in 6 years that I didn't buy anything. Alot of buybacks. There were a couple deals to be had but few and far between. There really wasn't that many games there. I think it looked like alot of games because of all of the damn redemption crap mixed in with everything else. I'm kinda glad I didn't buy anything since it probably would have taken forever to check out and there wasn't a way to load games at ground level.
JerryO
New member
Like I have said in the pass, the days in which an auction would have multi rows of classic games is a long gone thing of the past. I believe we will be luck to an auction contain a dozen or half a dozen classic's at best. People are holding on to them, or converting them into a 60 and 1.
NipRing
New member
House of Arcades owner/mgr "Rob" is a slicked back hair, used car salesman type jackass. On a side note, I almost passed out when that deluxe Crisis Zone went for $125 and then the deluxe 18 Wheeler went for $175. I just kept telling myself " I have no more room/ my wife will kill me."
animesuperj
Well-known member
Wasn't really anything I was interested in. Yeah, some stuff went cheap, but it seemed like everything needed work.
Checking out killerkades place was awesome. Had a lot of fun playing his games, and got some good ideas for setting up my place. Thanks again for letting us come over!
Checking out killerkades place was awesome. Had a lot of fun playing his games, and got some good ideas for setting up my place. Thanks again for letting us come over!
I would second that. This is the first auction I've been to in a few years and boy was it a change for me. TONS of redemption machines and the pins went for insane prices (at least for the 1/2 hour I was there). I went there with my son, stayed until the South Park pin was done ($1700 or $1800 for that) and that was enough for me to see. I wasn't expecting a ton of classics but there wasn't even any decent modern games there (golden tees, silver strikes) but there was one target toss pro (and not a good one at that).
The megatouches were older force series or older and many had issues. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the "fixer upper" but this stuff wasn't worth sticking a nickel in. I had to chuckle at the first item......a Galaga with a DBA on it.......
Attack from Mars went for around $3500 I think(with a display issue)
Sopranos went for $2500 as well. There was a world poker tour that looked pretty good but was not playing when I was there. There was just SO many redemption machines that I wasn't going to waste another hour of my weekend watching all of that....
animesuperj
Well-known member
There was also a monopoly and a viper night drivin. Don't remember what they went for though.
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