Quoted from Manic:Well of course you'd get screwed with something like that. I would think you could still find nice originals being sold by private sellers floating around out there. And what they are asking is not what they are going to get... you negotiate. You have to be patient... watch Mr Pinball, all that stuff.
In the old days that's what we called the "thrill of the chase"
By "In the old days" did you mean back before one idiot sold his machine for 3 times what it was worth. And someone else saw an idiot buy and so that idiot did the same thing and baited another idiot and eventually the entire market overpriced their old pins to a point to where they are the same price as a brand new car?
Those old days?
I hope they remake every single pin in existence and flood the market. So maybe eventually people will stop thinking they own gold bars and then some of us can actually get some pins in our collections without selling our kids and organs to afford them. It has gotten rather ridiculous in the last decade. Inflation is one thing... but pinball inflation jumped 100 years worth.
And I get supply and demand, but I assure you eventually the demand will slow. All hobbies have periods where they are hot commodities. I just wouldn't want to be the one who bought that 10k machine right before they start plummeting in price.
Cincinnati, OH
