Quoted from Nokoro:Have prices ever gone down in this hobby? Serious question. I don’t know the answer. And I don’t mean on the odd pin but for the market overall. They haven’t since I’ve gotten into it.
You have to consider pins were basically junk, landfill items that operators used to make money then tossed or sold for pennies on the dollar at one time. I personally had operators call me to come clean out their storage or warehouse for a couple hundred bucks to free just to get rid of them. This was when I started buying in year 2000. Since then prices on everything has been going up until around 2009 recession. Then they slowed down for a little. Skip to 2013 more and more places like barcades and arcades bringing pinball back to public to play. More and more new people getting into the hobby. Since then prices have been on a steady rise with no end in sight. The only thing I saw where prices have gone down is with old woodrail games. Of course this is just my personal view of buying and selling over a thousand games since then.
