You know and I do enjoy the "back and forth". However, in my few months on this site I see BARGAINS SCOOPED UP IN A NY MINUTE.
People on here KNOW VALUE so lets all get real. Nobody owning Hulk LE's or X-MEN LE's want to face the reality of VALUE TODAY. Sure, in 2 years or more (or less) they could go the IM road but as of TODAY they have not. Everyone loves buying the WINNERS (TRON LE for example) but sometimes games decrease and X-MEN LE has and so has AVENGERS LE. From a "flipper standpoint" (and a lot of people buy these to make money...it is just the way it is) both AVENGERS LE and WOLVERINE LE have been MONEY LOSERS....I laugh and think "they have been out less then a year" so all these people selling them and telling everyone else they are worth over $6K are just fooling themselves.
If they were everytime a For Sale for a X-MEN LE went up over $6K it would be GONE IN A DAY OR TWO....they sit....the HULK LE is having the same issue. It is a $5.5K game....BASH ME but if I am wrong this would have gotten more interest. What someone PAYS MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING......is anyone going to sell you their TRON LE for what THEY PAID.....everyone loves the one way street. I LOVE IT and WE ALL DO....however, the AVENGERS AND X-MEN from a "speculative standpoint" were LOSERS so if someone wants to get rid of them they take the $1K or more loss (like many have done) and move on....that is the way "this game works"....
Same thing might happen to METALLICA LE and in my opinion it will. JUST MY OPINION but if anyone is buying it for the RIGHT REASONS to enjoy and play it for many years just like a NEW CAR they will not care....however, half the people are buying it to either sell it or play it and sell it and make money....so that is why I hope it drops big in value.....this is out of control in my opinion.
Bash me on being a hypocrit because most people know I bought 3 NIB AC/DC premiums and 3 NIB TRON PROS but value has been established in my opinion and they were bought to trade (already traded one of them) and AFTER MARKET IS ESTABLISHED....nobody knows what a METALLICA LE will go for so even I would not buy it as TRADE BAIT it is pure speculation....everyone might HATE THE GAME PLAY (like Rolling Stones) so I prefer to wait until the game is out and people have played it and I don't consider that PURE SPECULATION like people have done with so many of these games.....I know the value of an AC/DC premium and Tron Pro and see little risk of the NIB's decreasing over the short term as I use them to trade for pins I want.
Hulk LE is a sub $6K pin in my opinion or will be shortly....that is just the facts....everyone uses IM as the "proxy".....hey, not every machine is a MM or MB.....buying the X-MEN LE and AVENGERS LE was a bad purchase unless someone was keeping it to ENJOY FOR YEARS...so take your loss (which truly should be over $1K and move on).....that is the way this hobby works if people want to buy these LE's....you will WIN SOME and LOSE SOME and nobody is liking the LOSSES.