Fall for what? Forget JJP, who knows what they are ever thinking, but Stern and PPS isn't trying to convince us of anything. Like we are some kind of suckers falling for some BS $8K price tag. The day PPS announced MMLE they had 1,000 orders. You call that twisting someones arm? That must have been the most efficient mind control strategy in history.
If people think it's worth it, they'll buy it. If they don't, either the prices will come down or the games won't get made if the manufacturer can't make money.
I see people overpaying for very meh games with some powder coating and cheap crap zip tied to it all the time for a premium here. There are a bunch of other things people fall for on Pinside, but buying a brand new game for $8K when even right now, a meh used one is going for $8,500 isn't falling for it, it's just the cost of admission.
What are the manufacturers supposed to do? "Geeee, we could get $8K, but RobT would slam us, and Pinflation is a bitch, so we'll sell them for $6,000!" Do you think that is realisitic?
So much of it has nothing to do is psychology. Maybe, there are a lot of well off people in this hobby who can spend it, and do spend it. Is it just that simple?
Nobody thinks these things are more overpriced than myself, I can't believe you actually have me defending high prices.
Quoted from RobT:Sadly it appears that the manufacturer's (JJP, Stern, and PPS) are trying to convince us that $8k *is* a reasonable level.
The question is whether pinheads will fall for it.
So much of this is psychological. With MMr selling for $8k, WOZLE at $8k, STLE at almost $8k (down from that now), Hobbit at $8k, it seems like there is no where for NIB prices to go but up ad infinitum.
There is no way this can last.