Ebay Multi buyer

[d mowery]

Any one remember the person that was buying all the low priced machines on ebay, I thought someone said he may be from Minnesota ,I wish to find thwm so I will know wheather to continue to pursue selling or not , Dont want to interfer with another in this area
Thanks Don OK to pm this Info if you want

[Utopia1dc]

Any one remember the person that was buying all the low priced machines on ebay, I thought someone said he may be from Minnesota ,I wish to find thwm so I will know wheather to continue to pursue selling or not , Dont want to interfer with another in this area
Thanks Don OK to pm this Info if you want

Don-

I believe you are referring to robertk6161. I looked at alot of auctions on Ebay today on several models, just to get a feel for the market on specific machines. This guy has bid a $125 on almost half of the auctions on Ebay. He is driving the prices up. It is almost impossible to win an auction anymore unless you outbid this guy. He doesn't seem to be too particular on models or vendors, he just bids $125 on everything. I hope this info helps, and according to Ebay he claims to be from Minnie Soda.

[slotter]

Yeah, and he has won TONS of machines but only has a feedback rating of 4 (!!!) because he buys over and over and over again from the same vendors.... Very strange deal.

[minnesotabrad]

I was a little worried last week when I was high bidder on the Don Chan 2 machine from DGI because I noticed he was bidding on some machines that day, but I must have picked the right one to bid on. I ended up getting it for $80.99! I felt pretty lucky getting it at that price.

[d mowery]

M BRAD - Hey Im in minnesota lets find who this is and get the skinney , You in?

[logicprobe]

Yeah, and he has won TONS of machines but only has a feedback rating of 4 (!!!) because he buys over and over and over again from the same vendors.... Very strange deal.

Yup... that's a really strange part of this...
So, where's the feedback from all of these purchases?

[RKnarr01]

i really want to know what is the deal with this guy whats he doing with all of those machines??

[Lddrizzt]

Yup... that's a really strange part of this...
So, where's the feedback from all of these purchases?

Logic,
Dude has 99 feedback, but only from 4 sources and they are not fly by night dealers either, one of them is Milt. this guy seems to have more money than brains.

[minnesotabrad]

I would love to find out who he is and see his game room if they are all for personal use! It must be incredible! I have never seen anyplace in Minnesota that sells these machines, only the slots used in casinos here in the states since they are legal here. Now I did stop at a fairly new place in St Peter selling slots about a month ago and started talking to the guy that works there, I believe a brother or brother in law of the guy that was selling the machines and started talking about Pachislo's to him and the prices you could get them for on ebay. Maybe I peaked his interest. I will have to check in next time I am down there and see if they started carrying them. I would think they would buy a pallet from a vendor if that was the case. It would be cheaper. :confused:

[Utopia1dc]

Can anyone solve this mystery, it's like the riddle of the sphynx of Pachi Land? This guy has peeked our curiousity, but now we need answers, or we will all wet our pants!

[logicprobe]

Logic,
Dude has 99 feedback, but only from 4 sources and they are not fly by night dealers either, one of them is Milt. this guy seems to have more money than brains.

WHOA... my mistake. Didn't look deep enough.
Yeah... all feedback from only a few select dealers... and all bids ONLY on those few select dealers.

In the last 30 days, he's placed 557 bids!!!! HOLY CRAP!!!

Is this guy trying to get one of each?
Writing a book, or something???

Another "Unsolved Mystery" alright!!!!

[RKnarr01]

maybe he's gonna open up his own pachislo parlor? nah, i doubt it but its driving me crazy wanting to know what he's doing with all of those machines?

[dapperdan]

Has anybody thought of just asking him?

[talk]

between rk6161 and dodc2 no machines go for less than 130
one odd thing they dont seem to be on the same machines at the same time
like clark kent and superman
never at the same place at the same time
if i had the money they pay in shipping i would buy a container

[hootiehoo]

it seems that marc4281 is bidding on every machine in sight too!

[Kamehany]

I have a theory. I'll keep it to myself, though, as I don't want them to know I know they know I know.

[delphicoder]

I think at times the machines were getting sold at the last minute for under 100 bucks, including good machines. So, an offer was made to the three major vendors that a group of folks would drive the price up to ensure they would at least get 130 for each. Really holds no value because the vendors could just start the opening bid at 130. Who knows. I can't really imagine they are actually buying al those machines though.

[luckydog]

i'm sure these are are real purchases, dealers like mit and eric wouldn't get involved in price fixing.

if you contacted the dealer and bought machines by the dozens on ebay that you could get them shipped on a skid or to local terminal for a much lower rate.

that brings their total prices well under wholesale with their ebay purchases.

plus they get to pick and chose what models they want.

[Tulsa]

I have to agree completely with Lucky. There's no way I'm going to believe that price fixing is going on with PP, Stealth and DGI.

[Utopia1dc]

I agree, I don't think it's price fixing in any way, shape or form either. It would be too hard to get all these people in on it together. Plus keep in mind, the dealers mentioned have been selling these machines for years. They aren't just selling a few machines out of their garage. They would be fools to do something like price fixing as this is their livelyhood, not just a hobby. If they got booted off Ebay, they would lose alot of business and exposure, which would dwindle their sales exponentially. So, I very much doubt they would be willing to take that risk!

Maybe this Robertk6161 has a deal with them since he buys so much. We used to get free tokens from PP, maybe he has something worked out with them. Maybe they hold his machines until he wins 6 and then they ship pallet to him at a discounted rate. True he spends a little more than just ordering a pallet direct from the vendor, but this way he picks which machines he wants?

The really bad thing here is that he is making it difficult to win any auctions on the cheap. He will usually outbid you upto $130 on almost anything.