most EMs can't get that much cheaper, there's not that much overhead left after fixing them up, seems to me. The amount of 'inflation', or whatever you want to call it, gets larger the more the pin costs. Maybe if you're looking at a $2000+ game you might save some money down the road, or maybe not, who knows. Investing isn't a science, and that's pretty much what you're doing that that point. EMs on the other hand, if you find a nice one for $500-600, and then prices do fall some, it'll be a $400 machine instead, best case? Not worth worrying about, personally