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Are people really paying the crazy high prices seen on pinside?

By Deez

10 years ago


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    #15 10 years ago
    Quoted from Deez:

    I feel like I keep seeing sale threads on this board which seem ridiculously high for a machine and then immediately after people will post how they think it's a cheap price and they wish they were closer. The machine will then sit at that price for a few weeks and sometimes longer until they eventually get sold. If you do a quick comparison of the prices listed in these threads compared to pinpedia or bostonpinball, they're 20% + higher. I wish that sellers would be required to list the actual sale price of the machine in the thread so I could get a better feel of what is occurring. I just can't believe that some people are paying crazy money for some B titles.
    I understand the whole concept of a machine having higher value if it is shopped, LEDd and condition condition condition. I just wish there was more price transparency in the hobby and since pinpedia and bostonpinball use actual completed sales, how the pinside prices could be so much higher.

    can you list some examples of games you think were overpriced where people were posting that it was cheap?

    #24 10 years ago

    so you guys want to whine about a supposed problem but refuse to cite examples. how are people supposed to engage in this conversation?

    #137 10 years ago
    Quoted from GListOverflow:

    What's to say that you could even trust the number if it was there? Wouldn't it be in a flipper's interest to claim machines sold for higher than they actually did?
    For that matter how do you even know the FS thread is real? Some of these guys already get caught making multiple forum accounts to cheerlead themselves or shill bid, it's not much of stretch imo that they could be faking sales to make the overall pricing trend appear to go up.

    i really think that is overly paranoid. for one thing, the dudes with multiple accounts weren't that bright.

    #182 10 years ago

    it's a fool that looks for logic the chambers of the human heart.

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