New Auction Company Starting up.

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Two empployees (Maybe Ex empployees) of Super Auctions are starting their own coin-op auction company. Their first auction is Feb 26th in Mesquite at the same location Super Auctions has theirs in. David and Shawn are the owners. Here is their web site. http://www.americanamusementauctions.com/ I posted here to get more traffic.

I'll probably take my Super Mini 60-1 if I haven't sold it before then.
 
Interesting. I'll have to plug that into my calendar to try to avoid conflicts. I like the reduction in buyer's premium for paying cash (13%->10%). I always flet like I was geting screwed by the previous premium because I always tried to pay cash and they wouldn't discount.

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Two empployees (Maybe Ex empployees) of Super Auctions are starting their own coin-op auction company. Their first auction is Feb 26th in Mesquite at the same location Super Auctions has theirs in. David and Shawn are the owners. Here is their web site. http://www.americanamusementauctions.com/ I posted here to get more traffic.

I'll probably take my Super Mini 60-1 if I haven't sold it before then.

So they learned from the best how to phantomly bid up prices, get shill bidders and basically screw everyone at the auction? Count me in....
 
Seems crazy to be starting an auction house specializing in arcade games in this day and age. Either diversify or specialize in something up-and-coming rather than something that seems to be dying out.
 
I guess you stick with what you know. Superauctions does not have a 2011 calendar up. Now I wonder if they will...
 
Well considering that Shawn has done most of the auctioning for Superauctions for that past few years. And was somewhat considered the one in charge since Rob rarely showed up to the auctions. Then david has been the ringman and main seller of multicades at them, Then tell me what is different from this than a superauctions.

1. ok, 3 percent lower fees (just the way it use to be)
2. Different name


ok, basically thats about the only differences.

Similarities:

1. Same auction personel will be there
2. from what ive been told, same locations
3. since its the same 2 people, i would day that they have the same consignors showing up like green-coin and such

So in other words, IMO, this is the same company, with a different name. Just like car dealers that go bankrupt, then mysteriously start a new carlot at the same location with a new name. This is what superauctions will more likely use and declare themselves bankrupt to avoid paying all the debts that they owe. So they get a fresh clean slate to start on.
 
Not surprising, as I know a few folks are still waiting to be paid by superauctions, and that superauctions has had its auctioneer's license suspended in a few states now. They were at the Milwaukee auction talking about doing a reality TV show etc blah blah, looks as though they are going the way of the dodo, and some of their em ployees had the credit to get an SBA loan.
 
They have been... and I've been told that if Rob steps foot in Texas he'll be arrested for it.
 
Personally I don't mind all the bidding shenanigans. It's like playing a game. I've always won the game when I attend Auctions. Just bid what you want to pay. It doesn't matter what games they play, don't bid over what you want to pay, and you'll never feel burnt. I never have. If they want to act like morons, it doesn't affect me. I've been to at least two of their auctions where there were more games than spaces on trucks. I got all kinds of crap cheap... I'm talking 5 bucks a piece, working. They didn't have the opportunity to shill bid those, nobody was buying because nobody could haul it!

Now as for them not paying, that's something they ought to be locked up for. I worked for an operator and he used Auction Game Sales a lot. They paid in cash, that night, and if he left before the auction was over they had a check to him that week.

No excuse not to pay when the customers are required to pay that day! (although with c.c. payments they wouldn't have immediate access to the cash!)
 
I just hope that the auctions continue in some form or another..

Getting up on a sat early, with coffee & donut in hand, walking around old arcade machines was a fun thing to do 3-4 times a year.

Even if the turn out hasn't been all that good..
 
I just hope that the auctions continue in some form or another..

Getting up on a sat early, with coffee & donut in hand, walking around old arcade machines was a fun thing to do 3-4 times a year.

Even if the turn out hasn't been all that good..

I miss that as well. Even if it wasn't to actually buy anything, it was fun to just make the drive down to San Jose on a crisp but sunny morning just to see what was being dragged in off the curb. It was always the times I went in not expecting to buy anything that I would win the phantom bidding wars. :)
 
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