Crashes happen when a group of folks are in it for the money and/or leveraged, can't afford what they are buying (which usually has to do with buying to try to make money and likely borrowing to do so) or when a large group has to sell similar things to pay for basic "needs".

Pinball have any of those things going on right now?

I see what you are saying. Keep in mind pins really have a small group of collectors. Tiny! Doesn’t take many new folks to keep it going. Think it has been around 100 years also. Pins are nothing new.

And look who is coming in - Nerds! A bunch of “nerds” are coming into pinball. Alot of these nerds have good paying jobs in Tech, engineering etc and enjoy fixing things. They are coming in at “today’s” pricing. They are not going to be held back mentally on buying a $2500 T2 because they don’t remember when T2 was $1250. They were not around pinball then. That being said many of these new folks have no problem spending $7000+ on a game.

And look around, pinball is a lower price collectible/hobby for what it is and 5X as fun as other stuff out there. What else are they going to do? Collect watches? Let’s collect high grade 1950’s baseball cards! Or ski! Golf! Buy a boat? Small batch bourbon. Anything along the lines of a $1100 Fire Power type bargain in that group?

I think the bitching and complaining will drive a few folks away from pinball.

Maybe that is folks plan? Bitch a lot - which will keep newbies away and also drive current people away so they sell. They will sell cheap of course. The whiners will come in and suck of all the bargains up with no competition.

I am not one, but I know many many many. They rock