If anyone wants some help is this terrible soft market selling a Fathom or a Centigrade 37 say, I would be willing to step up and take one for the team and buy them.

Yup. Just a little marketing. They could have called my 3rd run Tron a VE if they wanted to, ain't nothing changed.

Luxury goods are fairly immune to recessions. Look at the price of Swiss watches, they climbed steadily during the worst of the economic downturn. Like it or not pinball machines are luxury goods. Can you still buy them with some smart shopping and some work? Definitely. But not NIB and "A list" games.

One other thing is I don't think it's crazy or unreasonable that it took someone a week+ to sell a game. Or to not get interest in 4 days. There are a lot of games out there. A game like Comet isn't exactly a high demand title.

So often it's just about finding the right buyer. Someone really wants a Comet. But they're not obsessively checking Pinside or CL every hour on the hour. Sometimes it's really just the luck of the draw for your ad to get in front of that buyer. Who might happily pay your price. Gotta be patient.