Coin Slot Magazine - #048 - 1979 - January [International Arcade Museum]
very much, at least to the buyers gathered.
Many of the simpler
modern Bally, Sega, Alman, etc. slots only fetching prices of $200
to $400 each. Some even brought less! Other more deluxe Bally
machines brought between $600 to $1,000 apiece.
As I watched many of these newer electronic marvels being
sold at bargain prices, I wondered what they would be worth 25
years from now.
Will they be the antiques of the future? An Al
& Don Big Bertha slot is a good case in point.
Standing 7' tall
and 4' wide, it was one of the biggest gambling machines I've ever
seen!
It was in good condition too!
Auctioneer Don Britts did
everything humanly possible to make sure that the entire audience
knew that this item cost over $15,000 brand new. Yet it sold for
only $700.
Other giant sized slots sold for comparable prices.
After the same thing happened a few times, the rest of the big slots
were wisely held back and no more of them were let go for scrap
prices.
Maybe the right people weren't there to bid on them, who
knows? But will they one day be the uprights of the future?
If there was any doubt about the wisdom of selling the newer
slots at the wrong time and place, the same line of reasoning did
not hold true for the antique gambling machines.
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