Crofton, MD
The past few years of pinvesting are over. The past few years where you could buy a NIB pin, throw it in storage for a few years and sell it are over. The years of being able to use your connections to get a pin early and sell it over MSRP are over. The years of being able to buy a pin, play it 6 months and sell it over MSRP are over. The manufacturers have caught up. That model is dead.
The longer you hold onto a pin you haven't opened, the more money you will lose. If you have pins your are holding on to because you are upside down on them, time will not make the situation better.
Its time to let them go. Sell your pinvestments at a loss. Do you really see your NIB pins going up in value now that the market can get pretty much any pin they want NIB direct from the manufacturer or a huge discount, $4-5,000 off an LE, $2-3000 of a premium, or $1-2,000 of a pro? In the next months that discount will become even larger.
Face it. You've lost money. Sunk cost. Might as well let someone else enjoy it instead of hoarding it in a box in a storage unit your are losing money on every month. I've helped several friends get out from underneath large "pinvestment" collections that were not being used.
You can sell/move/trade any pin you want to, but you will have to make compromises on price.
Welcome to the new reality.
To others, if you have a pin you are upside down on that you want out of. Sell it. Trade it. People will want it, but probably not at the price you paid.
Just a reminder to folks that if you have pins you don't like... someone else will and if there are other pinball people around you, you can always trade them.
Sydney
