The market isn't even close to saturated. Stern played their hand right even if we don't like it. They had a huge price increase to keep the flipping profit in house and reset the used market with Bond and all FFLE's sold out in record time. CGC just announced a single level retro game that sold 1000 LE's in a few hours. That's 2 companies in a week or so's time to sell 1000 le's like it's nothing. The used market will finally go back to what it used to be and only a few titles will hold or increase in value and everything else will lose a few grand like it should. If you want to sell a fairly new game for a profit you are going to be out of luck. Price a game to sell at it will still sell pretty quickly.

Not likely to see too much of a drop on the older used market. It's nib purchases that will take a much bigger hit and recently released stuff. Will be nice to get used premiums for a nice discount again. Let the FOMO buyers eat the loss and mod them to death before they have to chase the next release.

I live in the same general area. While labor costs haven't doubled they have skyrocketed here. The price of a lower end hourly employee is $6+ per hr more than precovid. Labor costs in my field are up 30-45% depending on the position and the applicant. That's may not be double but that is a huge jump and will continue to drive the costs of goods and services up. I'm not saying it's a good or bad thing. It just is what it is.

I still remember my $3800 Iron Man and still have my $5400 Met Premium. Ahh, the good old days. When MSRP was the just a random number that nobody paid.

I don't remember, I think MSRP was $5899 but I could be wrong. Nobody paid MSRP then though. I do know I paid $5400 and that was will it delivered. How times have changed.

Mine was fairly early and I got a great deal on it. I should have bought 100 IM pro's for $3800. Would do a lot better than my retirement accounts since then lol. I'd like to saturate the market with them for 7k each.

I kept thinking a galatic plumber was going to show up to work on that woman's space plumbing but it just never happened. What a tease.

They made a billion of premiums and after the initial rush settled they were easy to get for good deals. Mine is a roadcase as well. I got it cheaper because nobody wanted it. They all wanted a monsters one and the distro was tired of sitting on it.