Belleville Auction Results

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Since no one has posted this yet I will. Just for those who were curious.
Listed in the order of the games......

Ms. Pacman $300
Ms. Pacman 325
Multicade 825
Multicade 850
Tekken Tag 225
Ms Pacman 100 (Not sure if working or not)
Area 51 350
Multicade 900
Metal Slug 5 175
Gauntlet Action 175
PGA Tour Championship 525
World Class Bowling Championship 325
Retrocade 550
Tekken 2 250
Battletoads 200 (It was in a Tapper cab)
Tekken 3 200
Virtua Fighter 175
Multicade 850
Missile Command 350 (Cabaret)
Ranger Mission 325
Sunset Riders 200
Big Buck Hunter 275
W.C. Bowling 275
Trophy Hunting 400
Trophy Hunting USA ---- (missed this one)
NFL Blitz 200
NFL Blitz 2000 200
Radikal Bikers 150
Metal Slug 2 150
Metal Slug 3 100
Metal Slug 5 100
Bust a Move Again EX 175
Lethal Enforcers 2 150
Soul Edge 150
Carn Evil 275 (monitor problems)
1942 125
Make Trax 125 (sound not working, dedicated cab)
GT 99 125
Sports Jam 1000
Arcade Classics 600 ( in a "mini" cab. Looked like the same one that sold for $800 at
the last auction)
Arcade Classics 575
60-1 multicade 575
Die Hard 125 (not working I believe)
Neo Geo 1 slot 175
Real Bout 75
Soul Calibur II 175
Millipede 175 (Not working)
Neo Geo 4 Slot 400
Galaga 250 (not working)
Wing Shooting Championship 325
Neo Geo 2 Slot 175
Metal Slug 2 150 (not working)
Centipede 225 (cabaret)
T2 Judgement Day 200
X Men 200
Lethal Enforcers 200
Street Fighters II 250
59-1 multigame 350
59-1 multigame 400
Lethal Enforcers 237.50
Indy Heat 125 (3 player version)
Tekken 3 55
Captain America 150
Turbo 125
Final Fight 150
Virtua Cop 375
The King of Fighters 200
19xx War Against Destiny 175
Neo Geo 1 Slot 137.50
Neo Geo 50
Soul Edge 25
Virtua Cop 100
Neo Geo 100
After Burner 50
Police Trainer 150
Neo Geo 2 Slot 62.50
Blitz 2000 Gold 150
Neo Geo 2 slot 30
Ms Pacman 150 (Not working)

Sitdowns:

Cruisin World 425
SF Rush 1025
Hydro Thunder 475
Off Road Challenge 325
Motocross (Gold?) 375
Cruisn World 325
Cruisn World 400
Gunblade 275 (No chassis)
Road Burners 170 (not working)
Road Burners 200 (not working)
Crisis Zone 100 (monitor problems)
Hyper Neo Geo 64 100 (not working)
Crazy Taxi 375 (board was not firing up but would credit up)
Rapid River 175
Ridge Racer 2 100 (not working)

Air Strike/Beach Head 2000/ Air Raid $650 (interesting story on this. Was one you sit in a plastic bubble to play. If you turned the hydraulics on, the gun would go into the full "up" position and you could only move left or right. When turned off, the game played normally but without movement.)

The Ocean Hunter 200 (needed a cap kit bad)
Namco Quick & Crash 400
Suzaka 8 Hrs. 100 (both monitors actually worked on this one.....first time I have seen that at a superauctions.)
Super Monaco GP 60 (sit down. seemed to have a dead monitor)
Beach Head 2000 $1300 (stand up version with helmet)

Popeye cocktail 135
Galaxy Games multi 60 (not working)
 
Thanks for posting this. I'll copy the pin prices here (from the other thread) for archival purposes:
Jackbot 1250 (pretty nice)
Viper Night Driving 900
Rescue 911 725
Slugfest 450
Bally Eight Ball 600 (had display issues, oddly, the PF was good
around the ball rack, planking at the top)
Silverball Mania 500 (decent PF given the usual "down to the wood" of
this title)
Stern Trident 250 (poor BG)
Bowling Queen 125 (poor BG and PF)
Captain Fantastic (home model) 200 (nice PF)
Mata Hari 325 (rough BG, played well)
Kings of Steel 475 (pretty nice)
Dew Wa Ditty 150
 
Thanks for all of that. I like knowing what things are going for. Any weird bidding going on?

The only thing I noticed is that this auctioneer kept the bidding open waaaaay longer than J.R. seemed to. Not sure if this was a deliberate thing (due to the rumors about J.R. not sure what the facts are on that, just what has been mentioned previosly) or if he's trying to stretch every possible dollar out, or if maybe it's just his style (though in previous auctions when J.R. was on break, and he was covering, he seemed to close quickly.) I thought I had won only to be outbid a couple of times on these drawn out "anyone else....anyone..." situations. He also started high on a lot of items and it took him forever before he would come down, especially on the pins. The Viper pin was almost a joke.
The other thing that was kind of screwed up was when they were auctioning off the change machine, it looked like it was only going to go for about $50, but ended up going for over $300, they kept the bidding open while someone gave the machine a once-over, they kind of did the same thing on the CD jukes, opened up the bidding then spent 10 minutes trying to see if they worked. The guy commented that they should have checked the machines during the preview, but didn't really do anything about it. It seemed like he kind of let the situation get out of his control a few times. Might just be a lack of experience or something.
Again, not trying to get personal or anything, these are just observations, hope I'm not offending anyone or bustin any balls cause that isn't my intention. The guy that's doing the auctions has really stepped up and is doing a good job all things considered. He seems to be much improved from when he was just covering for J.R.'s breaks.
 
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What I noticed about Shawn (the auctioneer) was he went from "someone give me a bid" (the way He's done it for the last couple of years), to cloning J.R.'s style of running up phantom bids. "I got 200....now 225...now 225...now 250..........anyone bid 100??"

He also cloned the way J.R would jump around. There was no reason to have a shouting contest to determine what to sell next. It would have been quicker to sell whats closest and move on from there. For instance, there were 12 pinballs and 8 juke's all in the same area. When they sold the pins, they moved on to the sitdowns. After the sitdowns, they went back to the few machines that were next to the megatouches and redemptions. Then they went back to the Jukes. They probably wasted an hour moving back and forth by skipping things in the same area instead of knocking them out.

As for any weird bidding going on, I really didn't see anything unusual this time. There were a couple of times things were sold when they didn't have a bid.
 
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What I noticed about Shawn (the auctioneer) was he went from "someone give me a bid" (the way He's done it for the last couple of years), to cloning J.R.'s style of running up phantom bids. "I got 200....now 225...now 225...now 250..........anyone bid 100??"

He also cloned the way J.R would jump around. There was no reason to have a shouting contest to determine what to sell next. It would have been quicker to sell whats closest and move on from there. For instance, there were 12 pinballs and 8 juke's all in the same area. When they sold the pins, they moved on to the sitdowns. After the sitdowns, they went back to the few machines that were next to the megatouches and redemptions. Then they went back to the Jukes. They probably wasted an hour moving back and forth by skipping things in the same area instead of knocking them out.

As for any weird bidding going on, I really didn't see anything unusual this time. There were a couple of times things were sold when they didn't have a bid.

That's right, Shawn, man I couldn't remember his name for anything. Thanks :D
Where the things sold without a bid, I assumed someone had a reserve worked out ahead of time... Isn't there something on the tags that they mark when something has a reserve? I know they mark the non working ones with a red slash through the "o" in the word Lot on the tag, I thought they marked the reserve ones too... I could be wrong on that, though...
But yeah, they jumped around a lot. I'm shocked they sold the vids first and not the touchscreen/bartops. I usually show up a little late as I have no interest in those and they seem to always do them first, well, this time I missed all of the vids cause I was later than normal (it figures, the time I was running late would be the one time that they would do the vids first :mad:)
I kind of figured when they went from the touchscreens to the redemption stuff, they were just going to make a big circle and then do the sitdowns after redemption, and thenthe jukes, and pins...
We'll see how the October one goes... it's starting to not be worth the drive down...
 
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These is always a lot of fishy stuff going on at these "Super Auctions". For one thing, the african-american guy working as one of the bid-callers (I think his name is BJ or DJ) is the guy who BRINGS the first 3-5 multigames to each auction (from what I understand...I was told this and don't have it confirmed). He also brought some of the pins to this auction.

I suppose there is nothing wrong with them bringing their own pieces to their auctions - if they were ethical in how they sold things.

You can tell which are his because there is always some note typed up and attached to the game that says some BS like "this game is brand new! We pulled it out of the crate this morning! It is perfectly ready to go on your route or into your home and will work for the next two centuries without a problem." And you can look at the game for 5 seconds and tell that it is total BS.

Then when they come to one of his games, it is fun to watch all the auction company employees. They all get really excited and say "UH OH! Look at THIS! WOW! It's a MULTIGAME!!!! WOAH!!! I can't believe it! You mean they fit 48 games all into this ONE cabinet?!?! That's like owning every game at this auction all in one cabinet! Do you all realize that? WOW!!!! This is AMAZING! Look at it! IT'S BRAND NEW!!! And I LOVE the blue T-molding! Have you ever seen a game that looks THIS great!?!?!"

Then they spend about 2 more minutes extolling the virtues of the amazing game that we're all being given the privilege to bid on. And if you're looking for fishy bidding - these are the games to find it on. Last auction in Belleville, they actually bid up the first one of his multigames to some ridiculous number (I want to say like 1325 but can't remember exactly). It was all fake bidding though, which they used to "set the price" in buyers' minds for the other 3 or 4 identical machines to follow shortly. Then they moved the first one with the fake bids down to the end of the row and "re-auctioned" it after selling the others (with NO explanation...they didn't even bother coming up with a phony excuse like the bidder changed his mind, or thought he was on another game, or whatever).

And those of you who were there...how many times did the bidding end and Shawn tried to stick the winning bidder with the next higher bid increment? At least 20 times. And every time he was caught..."oh, I'm sorry...I forgot."

And if that isn't enough. I consigned 7 pieces to sell. When I got home and looked more closely at my paperwork, they had charged me a 19.9% commission on 6 of the 7 sales, even though it says clearly on the document "Commission Settings: 15.9%" I haven't called them to dispute this yet...but I'm looking forward to that call.

I have several more concrete examples of downright dirty dealing and corruption I've witnessed or experienced with them, but I've said enough.

I don't mean to sound so negative...I enjoy all game auctions and I will continue to go to these and look for deals. But there is DEFINITELY a difference in the level of integrity with Super Auctions vs. other Auction companies I've gone to. These guys are as crooked as a dog's hind leg. I don't know where the crookedness originates - if it's passed down from the top or if it is just in a few individuals, but it seems to permeate.

John
 
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