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How Will The Next Economic Crash Affect The Pinball Industry?

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5 years ago


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#312 4 years ago
Quoted from EJS:

Unfortunately a lot of the upcoming machines for sale related to this recent fiasco is because they will HAVE TO not because they WANT TO. Even more unfortunate, looking at the big picture, the deals will probably be on machines made in the last decade or so that are on locations that are closed. This could cause demand to drop significantly for those manufacturers that are still open and could cripple sales for NIB.
Hopefully bars/restaurants/ entertainment venues will survive all this in the long haul but it's a reality not all will. For those locations that have 1 or 2 newer games (or more) it might be time for those machines to go. I still say it's too soon to speculate all the aftermath. Right now it's important to support those business by ordering takeout food if that's an option for that business. That way the location can at least survive. Hopefully the operator of the games inside will too. As someone who used to have a dozen locations or so, I'm not envious of those folks right now and wishing them the best.

Hopefully they will survive, But after a virus outbreak would you want to go back to touching germ infested machines?

#316 4 years ago
Quoted from belairjoe:

the fear of all this will last much longer than the virus

Yes they can be cleaned great,, But Yes this will always be in the back of peoples mind when touching anything in public and if it can be avoided it will be.

#318 4 years ago
Quoted from cottonm4:

Once this virus passes and people are not getting sick and/or dying, the survivors will not forget about it. But it will be in the past and most are not going to let the past rule their lives.
When it is over (The "when" is the big question) , people will put the masks away. They won't be carrying hand sanitizer. Life will go back to normal. And pinballs will be played.

We have carried hand sanitizer for years, This will not stop me from using it.

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