Cincinnati Ohio Auction Dec 11

They had one on bidspotter last time, same guys...lots of good stuff from my point of view..some stuff went very cheap..but i'm in NYC!!! ahhhhh
 
hey speaking of, anyone from the North East going to the auction that could haul a few machines for me if I win? Obviously I'd pay, let me know. Drop in NYC or Monmouth Beach NJ.

thanks!
 
Anyone in the St Louis area want to go to this?

I would like to go but it would be nice to split the travel expense with someone. It would also smooth things with the wife. ;-) Otherwise I may have to try out the online bidding. Somehow I think I will be disappointed with that experience.
 
Hated that I missed the Auction in Indy a while back, so I hit my brother up, and I think we are gonna head up there. Not really in the market for anything, but I have been wanting to check one of these out for a while. That said, I plan on driving a truck "just in case":).
 
So is anybody planning on hitting this up tomorrow? I know after reading some threads about Michael Angelo auctions, it doesn't sound too promising price-wise, but I think I am gonna make the 2-hr drive...
 
I signed up for the online bidding. Not sure how well that will work but I figure at least it will give me an idea of what I am missing (or not missing) in person.
 
Anyone have any clue how much it would cost to ship one item from here?...priced it out and it will cost me about $250 to drive back and fourth for it. Lets just say a medium size machine roughly.

Edit: Sorry my zip is 07750 :)

thanks
Jason
 
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Anyone want to buy me that Super Mario Pin?:) Since I have to work tomorrow so I can't go down there or bid online.
 
Watching it online now. Glad I didn't drive to this. There isn't much I am interested in. The items I would be interested in seem to be going for a lot more than I want to spend. It is nice that I am able to watch it while sitting on my couch with the smell of cookies baking in the kitchen. ;-)
 
Yeah, let me tell you I made the trip there today and I wish I hadn't. None of the arcade games were even worth looking at, they had few decent pins and everything went for way more than expected. To give you any idea of how over priced some of this stuff was, a 60-in-1 went for 1500.00! The overall spread was about 60% redemption, 30% vids, 10% pins. I will not be back and the fact that they pass on an item if it isn't bringing enough is crazy to me.
 
Yeah, let me tell you I made the trip there today and I wish I hadn't. None of the arcade games were even worth looking at, they had few decent pins and everything went for way more than expected. To give you any idea of how over priced some of this stuff was, a 60-in-1 went for 1500.00! The overall spread was about 60% redemption, 30% vids, 10% pins. I will not be back and the fact that they pass on an item if it isn't bringing enough is crazy to me.

It's because most of the stuff are Namco operator owned. Not sure about this auction, but that's just the way it is sometimes.
 
Kinda went as I planned. I now know I have no need to attend another Michael Angelo auction. They barely had enough extension cords to switch the games on once while they were bidding and that was it. Luckily, I was able to plug in all the stuff I was interested in so I could check them out, as they definitely didn't seem like they wanted you looking too closely at something you were giving your good, hard-earned money for. Seemed like everybody was there for the Pins..A banged-up, but decent-playing LW 3 went for $900 I think. Shaq Attack went for $800!! Most of the pins there were in decent condition, I guess. My wife really wanted the Jurassic Park, but it had issues as that dam T Rex would just hold the ball in his mouth . The funniest part of the evening was the Mario Bros pinball that went for like $1400, and the ball wouldn't launch most of the time, and had other issues. I'm no pin expert, but for the condition these were in, the prices were too high even though the auctioneer billed every one as "Super clean, playing fine", when most obviously were not. I did run in to some cool people and we chatted about pins/auctions, so the day was not a total waste. I also saw some really cool games I hadn't seen in the wild(2-Player nice condition Virtua On/Sitdown Confidential Mission). Sorry for the rant, not pissed, just disappointed, even though I kind of figured how it was going to go.
 
I bought a couple of things for them in the past, passed on alot of stuff cause of the prices, but most things are always way overpriced there especially pins.

My only saving grace is that most of the stuff I like people don't care for.
 
the prices were too high even though the auctioneer billed every one as "Super clean, playing fine", when most obviously were not.



Last one I was at with them, non-working items sold to internet bidders as "powers up, works great"..........yea when the monitor does not come on and no coin up...thats not working great...i bet there was alot of charge backs from CC
 
Last one I was at with them, non-working items sold to internet bidders as "powers up, works great"..........yea when the monitor does not come on and no coin up...thats not working great...i bet there was alot of charge backs from CC

I was an internet bidder for one near Fort Wayne recently. When I arrived to pick it up on the following Tuesday, I decided to plug in one of the games to make sure it fired up. Michael himself was there and saw me do this and said, "Hey the game boards are there and it has a monitor--be glad for that much!" Maybe he meant it as a joke...
 
I was an internet bidder for one near Fort Wayne recently. When I arrived to pick it up on the following Tuesday, I decided to plug in one of the games to make sure it fired up. Michael himself was there and saw me do this and said, "Hey the game boards are there and it has a monitor--be glad for that much!" Maybe he meant it as a joke...

I don't think he's joking. I was looking at a Virtua Cop 2, and had checked it out before the auction and it was missing the back, and had an AC adapter in the back of it(never seen that before). The bidding started, and everything seemed to work(guns registered, monitor fairly clear), but there was no sound. HE had one of his guys start adjusting the volume knob, but all you gould hear was scratchy static. Once the bidding got up to my cutoff point he kind of looked at me like "well?", and I told him, there was no sound coming out of it, plus I started to notice graphics glitches. He basically said "What do you expect?", and I said " A game that works!", and that was the end of that. The price was not terrible, but I am not gonna buy a game that has issues just because. No offense if a K-Lover got the game, as it wasn't a bad deal, it just wasn't for me, and his attitude put me off...
 
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