Someone has said earlier that they were pulling out of Florida. I wonder if they are just finising the contract with the Fairgrounds, thus the lack of decent stuff? What percentage of the merchandise does SA actually bring themselves? Maybe the plan is to replace the Florida dates with the W/S dates, thus the same auctions on the same day?
Florida Arcade & Pinball Expo - October 18 & 19, 2008 at Polk Community College
Charlie L.
Someone has said earlier that they were pulling out of Florida. I wonder if they are just finising the contract with the Fairgrounds, thus the lack of decent stuff? What percentage of the merchandise does SA actually bring themselves? Maybe the plan is to replace the Florida dates with the W/S dates, thus the same auctions on the same day?
Florida Arcade & Pinball Expo - October 18 & 19, 2008 at Polk Community College
Charlie L.
Most of the items at the auction are brought in by locals. Rob would bring his own stuff from time to time (especially the slots.. but the container load) but I'm not sure if they bring anything at all these days. The fear is with the dwindiling amount of items and prices that eventually it won't be worth it for them to come to Orlando at all but to just stop at Atlanta or W/S. Most of your big time operators (the ones that bring the majority of games to the auction anyway) will send trucks up to Georiga or Carolina so Super Aucitons may not be out that much revenue. But obviously that would suck for us so we're all hoping it doesn't happen but it very well may eventually.
As Dan was saying at the auction though, this slump might just be due to some market issues and apparently all the regions are down so it's not like Orlando is just un-naturally bad or something. It could all bounce back by the fall auction.. well back to normal crap levels instead of crap-crap levels anyway :)
And that animated gif is driving me nuts man, can you just make it a static signature? thanks! :)