Add it to the pile:

2000:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.pinball/high$20prices$20market$20collapse%7Csort:date/rec.games.pinball/gzU8ZAOxvUE/qII_fx4klQ0J

2001:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.pinball/pricing$20decrease%7Csort:date/rec.games.pinball/3XZf_itbXjY/QI04T4Qr9UkJ

2002:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.pinball/pinball$20price$20bubble%7Csort:date/rec.games.pinball/8CDhldb5kyw/JxQRQPIGmQwJ

2003:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.pinball/pinball$20market$20price$20fall%7Csort:date/rec.games.pinball/clAO0zIHHfQ/CbExiOZrldIJ

2004:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.pinball/pricing$20decrease%7Csort:date/rec.games.pinball/pXZDb-2V6Yk/GSPWq06-nWsJ

2005:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.pinball/pricing$20bubble%7Csort:date/rec.games.pinball/ACTs0HpQktA/x-C5LZAF180J

2006:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.pinball/pinball$20price$20bubble%7Csort:date/rec.games.pinball/dBrqPnk7mkk/nQYyh65_fewJ

2007:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.pinball/pinball$20prices$20fall%7Csort:date/rec.games.pinball/femnxuH8a1k/oeXzsItDbOQJ

2008:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.pinball/high$20prices$20market$20collapse%7Csort:date/rec.games.pinball/44iMVjwb68o/wXb8-3F9vOIJ

2009:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.pinball/pricing$20market%7Csort:date/rec.games.pinball/JsgTrS05pCc/8pB5t9oUqTAJ

2010:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.pinball/pricing$20market%7Csort:date/rec.games.pinball/hNRZGnOAZ-Y/bs8Js1M7sUAJ

2011:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.games.pinball/high$20prices$20market$20collapse%7Csort:date/rec.games.pinball/DlcZoruS0Bo/VO_cueyPCEQJ

2012:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-price-bubble-think-it-cant-happen-think-again

2013:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-price-bubble-will-pop

2014:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/this-is-not-a-rebirth-of-pinball-its-a-bubble

2015:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/we-all-want-the-ass-to-drop-out-of-pinball

2016:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/when-will-the-stern-bubble-burst

2017:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/are-we-in-a-pinball-bubble

2018:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/why-i-feel-pinball-prices-are-going-to-plummet

2019:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/will-pinball-prices-come-down-

LMAO I forgot about longtime RGP know it all pinballjim. I wonder if he's still in the hobby...He really nailed it with this post 14 years ago!

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pinballjim
9/8/05

JKirby wrote:
>Does anyone see the price
> bubble bursting any time soon?

Oh yeah, without a doubt. Anyone that tells you otherwise is
delusional.

Take a look at Ms. PacMan prices 3-5 years ago.

Then take a look at them today. Maybe 40%.

Pinball is no different. As the people that are interested in them
start dying off, the prices will bottom out to the "cool, neat weird
thing to have in the house as a conversation piece" which seems to be
around $500 today.

Frankly, with about 100 exceptions, the majority of pinball prices are
already hovering around that $500 mark.

Are you saying the bubble has already burst?!?!?!?!

Damn slayed by yet another Nostradamus in a 20-year string of them.

Pinside will be out of business most likely at the point of such a catastrophic collapse in the market so it'll have to be back on RGP.

I don't know what to do at this point besides copy and paste the 20 years of price bubbles threads.

The price bubble posters have far more stamina than I do. I'm losing my will to defend so I think they just may win this war of attrition.

Or...I guess the bubble could just burst already? History hasn't been kind to that expectation so far though.

Nah that was term paper project from several price bubble threads ago. Lets just say productivity was fairly low on that day.

Were you around for the previous recession?

Pin prices didn't continue to climb, but they didn't drop either. For the most part people just held on to their stuff and rode it out.

Pinball people are incredibly stubborn, vindictive and petty when it comes to selling games - will take a lot more than a little ole recession to make a serious dent in the used pin market. The idea that a silly little 2 year recession is suddenly gonna destroy pin prices is just a long-running fantasy of pinheads, like winning the lottery, or discovering a stash of NIB Indiana Jones in some old lady's garage.

Do you guys get paid every time you say “snowflake?”

Surely you have more to offer us?