Except once they stop the run, you now have a custom that no one else has, and the after market prices will still be all over the place. Imagine advertising you have the only lizard skin paint job that Stern did on the Godzilla pin.....or maybe one of 10 known, etc.......so long as people have money to throw at anything they deem limited, they will do it. It's just like the white-woods that float around and go for a premium....I have never understood the attraction to those and what makes them special other than they are something that no one else has. Many aren't even complete, but they get snapped up fast.

I learned a valuable lesson after my brother passed away and I was in charge of liquidating his business and assets. I attached sentimental value to everything, and thought it ought to go for a million dollars, when in reality, it was just a piece of metal or a piece of wood, which had far less value to others than I thought it should. At some point pinball will be old news, and the market will correct, and we will all have game rooms (myself included) full of wood boxes with blinking lights that are nowhere near as valuable as they once were. So long as you are good with that fact, I say to "rock on" and pay what you want to get what makes you feel complete....just don't count on them for long term investments.