If you buy stuff from captains please know they hide a lot of issues or disguise them to make machines seem like they are in better shape then they actually are. If you are no stranger to restoring games or doing in depth repairs I'm sure you will be fine, but I've bought several machines that "looked" much better from the certain angles they took pictures from only to be pretty beat upon arrival.
Oh man that sucks. Sorry to hear that it happened to you
There was a huge opportunity when the Banning/MOP games were auctioned off to grab pictures for the database. Never materialized.
Captains is just running the auction part of things, whether it be consignment or selling off bulk purchases.
Thanks will start a thread there. I understand your opinion. I have about 10 machines I've collected over the years and understand they can be problematic, especially monitors. But when starting up an arcade I would want to stock it up and purchase in bulk. Also my area sucks for Facebook ads, everyone wants absurd amounts for crappy machines and any machine that is decent and decent price gets scooped up by the same guy who re-lists it the next day or so for double what he paid for. It's annoying.
They remove the ability to easily browse the catalogs, but the actual item links still stay live forever it seems if you have the direct link. If you add it to your watchlist, you can check it eventually. I wasn't aware they had a twitch archive, I actually just like listening to an auction in the background sometimes so Ill have to watch those lol.
So if a consignor sell a piece, and don't watch the live auction, I guess they would have to take their word on how much it was sold for.
Chris is a friend of mine (we're essentially neighbors), I doubt he would ruin his name over something like that - especially since it's livestreamed on YouTube/twitch.
