Coventry Auction: Sunday 26th November 2017

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£20

[riche100]

is £20 what i now need to spend to find out ? haha

thanks for the reply .

if bullseye went for £20 and the buyer frequents this forum id be happy to speak to them ..

might explain why my money tree help thread doesnt get much interest and help forthcoming as it doesnt tickle the members like a allwin or bryans would ..

[widget2k4]

I've never owned a bally or would want to tbh, so no help from me unfortunately

[riche100]

thanks for the reply on here and texts

have a good evening

[coppinpr]

Usually plenty of bandit help on the forum. Could be your Bally is a bit close to our preferred date limit for many of us to have had one. If we dont know it we can't help.

[geordy55]

I bought the Bally Bulls Eye, never owned one and I’m more of a mechanic than electrician, but for £20, couldn’t resist. Switched it on, it all lights up, pennies go in but handle won’t move. This is one for the future as I have enough mechanical machines to work on at the moment.

[brigham]

I have a Bally Super Blue Star.
These Bally machines are neither fish nor fowl. They are either the last of the mechanical bandits, or the first of the Electros, depending on what you are interested in. (Typically, I'm involved with both!).
A sort of Muscovy Duck of the gaming world; sometimes more like a goose.

[youngerap]

I had a Bally. It was a lovely machine, working perfectly off the full copper 2np coin. For years I tried to get my eldest son to take ownership of it (he is in his thirties now and had been playing that machine for some 25 years). Finally, having bought his first house, he said 'yes'. Into the Landrover it went and twenty minutes later it was in his house and ready to play. Except that it wouldn't. I think the vibration on the journey killed it. Very sad. Still, definitely no takie-backsies!

[JC]

Sorry for the very long delay, but the results are now up on our site:

http://www.vintageamusementsauctions.co ... 4590598868

I've also emailed then to Mr PM, so they will no doubt be available to view in the ARENA shortly.

Jerry

[sarg]

I see the Golden Nugget didn't sell. Is the owner on here?

[pennymachines]

I've also emailed then to Mr PM, so they will no doubt be available to view in the ARENA shortly.

Done! Thank you Jerry.

[bryans fan]

Thanks for the photos PM.

[brigham]

I bought the Bally Bulls Eye, never owned one and I’m more of a mechanic than electrician, but for £20, couldn’t resist. Switched it on, it all lights up, pennies go in but handle won’t move. This is one for the future as I have enough mechanical machines to work on at the moment.

I've now got TWO Super Blue Stars, a Gold Award and a Rio (which I seem to think is a Joe Corrigan conversion).
If you would rather sell the Bulls Eye on, I'd be interested. It was one of my favourites as a player (rather than collector), along with Sir Prize and the two Jolly ones; joker and something else.

[tammy]

I find it a shame that the Coventry Slots Auctions are always held in late autumn almost early Winter. I am now not a young man so don't enjoy traveling on the roads at that time of year. I am from East Yorkshire so it's quite a distance too, pity they couldn't have an auction nearer me for the Northern areas or at least in Summer when I will push myself to travel and stay overnight. I have put an advert in the market place for an early one arm bandit as I am after something like a Roman Head bandit or a Melfruit bandit with light up top box if anyone near me has one to sell that is not too dear.

[badpenny]

tammy .... I'm sorry to hear your issues.
I'm sure you already know what I'm going to say.
Those in the South want us to run them there.
Those in the North want us to run them there.

We're never going to win that one.
We run them in Coventry because it is the centre and has excellent road and rail connections.
We did run a couple in Hertfordshire, the overheads were unproportionately high and as an exercise it might have been cheaper to stand in a field tearing up £20 notes for a quarter of an hour.

At the time those living in that area wanted to buy not sell, this is starting to become a nationwide theme.
Demand is great but there has to be a supply as well.
At the moment I note a lot of machines for sale around eBay etc but the prices asked are top list and then some.
That tells you the state of the market.

We run them at the end of the year for many reasons, it avoids the yearly Sundays called "Mothering" "Valentine's" etc. avoids Summer holidays, bank holidays and panders to those who want to buy themselves a Chrissie present.

If you have solutions please let's hear them.

Good luck hunting for your bandit

BP