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I can't afford this hobby anymore. These prices are ridiculous.

By pinbill_blocked

11 years ago


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    #118 11 years ago
    Quoted from pinbill_blocked:

    I think modern MSRP's are going to kill the entire newer pinball industry as they're pricing more and more people out of the market.
    Post edited by gweempose : Thread title fixed.

    I think (fill in the blank) is going to kill the entire (fill in the blank) industry as they're pricing people out of the market.

    - Rolex
    - Ferrari
    - Grey Goose
    - Rolls Royce

    etc.. therefore those car, watch, vodka manufacturers should stop what they are doing and instead make affordable products that a retired person can easily afford.

    and while we're at it, Hollywood should stop making movies that are going to cost me $12/ticket and Broadway should enforce a strict $40/ticket ($30 for seniors) price policy etc. etc..

    #155 11 years ago

    agree with the_pin_family 100%

    With new cars today the average transaction price is close to $30K, not every person can not afford $30K but most can buy a nice used car $5K (or even a new but small car for maybe $14K).

    The thing is the car market is huge, they sell 12 million new cars/trucks a year in the US so there is a lot of competition and lots of markets for both cheap or expensive. Pin market is much smaller so we have less choices in new pins.

    I was looking at a car magazine and they had a Ford F-series truck (with diesel and all the bells and whistles) was list for $70K, yes that's $70K for one truck, doesn't unclude a house or anything else. You can get a lower trim level of the F-series truck for $25K so the question is, does Ford have a right to sell a truck for $70K if some people can afford and want to buy it? Even is most regular people can't afford one?

    There is a new pin BHZA that is going to cost $10K+ that's a lot of money, but you don't have to worry about that when you can pick up pins like T2 or Bride of Pinbot two nice pins for under $2K each.

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