Aurora CO super auction

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Who alls going to this? Looks like its gonna be f'n large! Too bad about all the kitchen equipment and shit though. Carnival rides and a carousel? Damn!
 
I was there today, and it was nothing like what I expected. Everything was going for huge $$$. I mean the first thing to go up was a class of 81 reunion ms pac/galaga machine and it sold for 1250. Things just got more crazy from there. Cyclone machines at 3 grand a piece, Fast & the Furious super bike machine at almost 5 grand, Time crisis 4 at over 7 grand... This was used and in most cases fairly beaten up equipment. Example: that Time Crisis machine's gun fire solenoids weren't functioning. It was just a bunch of arcade owners kicking eachother in the balls, leaving anyone who wasn't gonna make money off the machines SOL. I've heard magical things about these arcade auctions... Large machines for under $100 just cause nobody wanted to move them... That certainly wasn't the case. Today definitely left a bad taste in my mouth for the auction scene.
 
First of all, the Ice Cold Beer that they were auctioning off wasn't in the best shape. The coin door was all torn up, the control panel locks looked like they'd been half-way drilled out, and I think the rear door was missing. It was also #236 on the block, and around 180 it looked like it was gonna rain. I rode my motorcycle down from Boulder, and kinda wanted to make it home dry, so I left. I didn't assume anything would go reasonably after the Simpsons machine I was after (without a CPO, and with only 1 of 4 coin slots working) sold for 550. Keep in mind that this had started at 10 am, and it was 4 pm when I called it a day. 6 hours of auctions, and they didn't make it through 200 auctions... I was looking at another 2-3 hours before ICB came up. Also keep in mind that this was 2-3 hours of redemtion stuff, of which I had no interest in. There were plenty of arcade owners buying up all that. After all, cyclones were going for 3k, coin pushers upwards of 1500, and skee balls were going for about a grand.
 
You should have stayed, maybe the ops blew all their money by the end. Or everyone was just visiting shillington.
 
I was at this thing from around 8:30am to 7pm. The ICB sold for 275 which was the only deal IMO. It was missing the coin door yes, but other than that was a pretty nice machine. And it was the newer ICB. There were 2 arab dudes who bought probably 25% of the place and probably dropped over 100k there.

It was nothing like the longmont auction a while back. Me and my buddy were thinking it was going to be like that one, where many blew their money early and gave us bottom feeders something to buy. Nope. I dont think there was any shill bidding here. Many people from out of state. Lots of huge rental trucks in the parking lot and my buddy saw a semi truck. I guess a lot of people who owned family amusement places. Lots of people with clipboards with stuff highlighted, and lots of phone calls during.

It was supposed to be a catalog auction since there was so much stuff. But it ended up walking to every f'n machine in the huge place.

I came home with some tokens, and sore-ass feet.
 
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