The end of Superauctions?

Does anybody else remember the special Super Auction that happened a number of years ago that was hailed as the "Biggest Amusement Auction in history"? It was set to take place somewhere around North Carolina or Virginia at an ENORMOUS multi-level facility where a retired operator who was looking to get rid of THOUSANDS of games and old EM equipment and retire for good. Apparently, they got through only part of the equipment during the auction, and just as soon as the prices started going down, the owner of the equipment pulled the plug on the auction.

I suppose that the sheer volume of equipment was so great that you would end up running out of interested buyers who had the ability to move the equipment at some point. I had heard that there were multiple floors of equipment that they never even had a chance to look at or get to before the owner shut it down. Anyone here have more details on how that auction went? It sounded like a "once in a lifetime event" that didn't quite go as planned...
 
That was the Collins Amusement auction in Greenville SC.

It had to be 10 or 12 years ago. I might still have a flyer from it. I didn't attend, but got the scoop from several that did. Of course, they talked about it for years after.

I don't know if they ever liquidated all of that, but they sold a bunch of Collins' games at another site in Greenville about 3 years ago. Gobs and gobs of Pacman cabs at like $50 each.

I think old Collins moved out to Texas when SC lawmakers put the stop on video poker down here.

Super Auctions will be remembered down here. Several good shows and a few that sucked their way to infamy.

One time we rode up to Charlotte to check out an auction (fashionably late) and they were FINISHED. 23 total games showed up- ahahhahaha

Oh- and me and Chip planned to go to one wearing matching T-shirts, but never got the nerve:
"shill bidder #1"
and
"shill bidder #2"
 
well back to ebay for now and craigs lol..
sounds like they are confident they will be back acording to the website statement though..
 
kstillin said:
That was the Collins Amusement auction in Greenville SC.

It had to be 10 or 12 years ago. I might still have a flyer from it. I didn't attend, but got the scoop from several that did. Of course, they talked about it for years after.

I don't know if they ever liquidated all of that, but they sold a bunch of Collins' games at another site in Greenville about 3 years ago. Gobs and gobs of Pacman cabs at like $50 each.

I think old Collins moved out to Texas when SC lawmakers put the stop on video poker down here.

Super Auctions will be remembered down here. Several good shows and a few that sucked their way to infamy.

One time we rode up to Charlotte to check out an auction (fashionably late) and they were FINISHED. 23 total games showed up- ahahhahaha

Oh- and me and Chip planned to go to one wearing matching T-shirts, but never got the nerve:
"shill bidder #1"
and
"shill bidder #2"
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Collins was owned by Fred Collins, after they made poker illegal in south carolina, he just operated them all over North Carolina. He won a large lawsuit against IGT, who made some of the machines, claiming in court that the design of the poker machine made it hard for him to operate it legally, and actually won. There were so many debtors who had their claws in him though that he never saw any of the money. For about 5 years he sued anybody and everybody about everything, then passed away. The second auction in Greenville was his family (daughter and son) selling off a bunch of his old stuff he had in the warehouse still.
 
BJ was the black guy and I think he was from PA. I overheard him one auction being mad because he was the only employee to be bused down. The others got to fly. He said if the bus me next time I ain't coming. Next auction he was there.

David has the mullet and is a small operator in Arkansas. He jad a few locations then lost some of them and got hired by SA. I have bought from him and had my dad pick up something from him for a fellow KLOVer in IN. He's pretty cool. No idea if he still operates or not. I hope they do well that is my main supply if I want a cheap cab/game.
 
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you may find the founders of s/a now at
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Did anyone ever figure out who the guy in the do rag was? ("Mr. Do Rag"?)

He was always talked about on RGVAC, and attended those Superauctions regularly...
 
pookdolie said:
Did anyone ever figure out who the guy in the do rag was? ("Mr. Do Rag"?)

He was always talked about on RGVAC, and attended those Superauctions regularly...
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I had the same thought last week when I saw this thread. Last I read up on him he died. I dunno if that's true or not, but I remember no one really said anything about him after that was mentioned. I tried googling for the website dedicated to him, but that doesn't seem to exist any more. :( Never met him, but definitely a fun little legend of the hobby.
 
sosage said:
I had the same thought last week when I saw this thread. Last I read up on him he died. I dunno if that's true or not, but I remember no one really said anything about him after that was mentioned.
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That's always a tricky one `cause, whenever a "legendary character" is brought up in hobbies or what not online, and no one has heard about them for awhile, the first response is always, "I think they died".

Of course, it might be true...
 
pookdolie said:
That's always a tricky one `cause, whenever a "legendary character" is brought up in hobbies or what not online, and no one has heard about them for awhile, the first response is always, "I think they died".

Of course, it might be true...
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Or prison. Lord knows there's a few of those around as well.
 
Mr Do! Rag was an operator that showed up at many game auctions on the East coast and throughout the South. He died back in 2005 (so I guess jokes and cracks are fair game now) and his name was Scott something.

Search back rgvac and possibly google images.

Some people marked him as notorious for shill bidding up his own stuff, but that's actually the norm at arcade auctions. (present holier-than-thou company excluded)

He never did me wrong. Actually, I can't say that I ever had any personal dealings with him. I may have bid on some of his auction fodder, but that's it.

He was instantly recognizable and much rgvac humor/banter went on about his appearance and supposed game-dealing tactics.

There was even an Do-rag Haiku that I couldn't resist participating in :)

Funny how 'respect for the dead' has popped up a lot lately.

http://tinyurl.com/5vkbe5q

Search rgvac in general for do rag, but really, you had to be there.

Kind of like you guys nodding and laughing when someone says 'meth sundance' and the CAG guys saying 'huh?'- HAHHAHAHHA
 
kstillin said:
Mr Do! Rag was an operator that showed up at many game auctions on the East coast and throughout the South. He died back in 2005 (so I guess jokes and cracks are fair game now) and his name was Scott something.

Search back rgvac and possibly google images.

Some people marked him as notorious for shill bidding up his own stuff, but that's actually the norm at arcade auctions. (present holier-than-thou company excluded)

He never did me wrong. Actually, I can't say that I ever had any personal dealings with him. I may have bid on some of his auction fodder, but that's it.

He was instantly recognizable and much rgvac humor/banter went on about his appearance and supposed game-dealing tactics.

There was even an Do-rag Haiku that I couldn't resist participating in :)

Funny how 'respect for the dead' has popped up a lot lately.

http://tinyurl.com/5vkbe5q

Search rgvac in general for do rag, but really, you had to be there.

Kind of like you guys nodding and laughing when someone says 'meth sundance' and the CAG guys saying 'huh?'- HAHHAHAHHA
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His name was Scott Yates. He actually was a really good guy. He was a large operator out of Kentucky and he did die several years ago. He did shill bid his items up, he would take things like pac boards and such to the USAA auction and wasnt gonna let them sell for 5.00 each. so he would shill up, but he was actually very reasonable and did let things sell for respectable prices. Unlike green coin, who shill up to stupid prices and then load the truck up to the next auction. Scott only made money if he sold the machines, so he was taking them with all intentions of selling every piece.

What made him stick out was his appearance and his odor. But if you were able to get pass that, then you would have met a real nice guy
 
I spoke with the guy a Auction Games Sales and he was going to come down and see about auctioning off one of my warehouses. I think I lost him when I told him I wanted to auction off 2000 games because he has not got back to me. I am kind of leary of it now
 
r5g said:
anyone looking for s/a
you may find the founders of s/a now at
www.reaa.us
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That blows. I read the "About us" page and sure enough Rob is named (assuming Melissa is his wife as she is named too)

RIP arcade auctions.

Reminds me of back in the day when I was a photographer for AutoView magazine (like Auto Trader) Some of the shady used car dealers who advertised with us would go bankrupt after a while and open a new dealership with a new name in the same spot.
 
RLEVIN said:
I spoke with the guy a Auction Games Sales and he was going to come down and see about auctioning off one of my warehouses. I think I lost him when I told him I wanted to auction off 2000 games because he has not got back to me. I am kind of leary of it now
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All at once!!!???

Just a guess from a casual auction buyer, but if you want decent profits, you don't want to try to auction off anything like 2K games in one go. That many games is going to saturate the local market (even assuming good advertising, and that you draw from a large area).

You would probably sell them all, but as you go along you'll get less and less for each game (relatively speaking of course) because many people will spend their limit earlier on. At the end (if you don't cut it off early) you'd be getting 1/20th of what they are worth or less.

To get the most money you'd definitely want to split that up over time, and possibly over area (as best you can). Obviously that adds overhead, but if you put more than a couple of hundred games in one auction, you're going to run out of buyers REAL quick.
 
If you haven't watched the video clip by Parrothead, you should. To me it looks kind of sad, like I said looks kind of sad to see Supeructions (Rob) trying to sell games at a swap meet
 
Man I remember going to my first ever Super Auctions 10 years ago this April. It was in Detroit at the State Fair Grounds where they had a number of them over the years. I'll never forget being blown away by the number of games I saw. There was even a row of Ms Pac-Man project cabs. Every auction after that never quite seemed the same, but I still got some pretty good deals over the years.
 
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