I don't understand why they can't offer a reasonably price pin for new people just getting in the hobby. My pin fun is very limited, these high prices are killing my chances to own another pin.
To me it make more sense to offer a new $3,000 to $4,000 pin just to bring customers in. I guess manufacturers are not looking at it this way.
I was hoping prices where coming down just for the sake of operators and personal use. With new prices climbing its just a matter of time before used machines are out of my reach. This will turn away people trying to get in the hobby for the first time.

My point exactly!
I would love to own a Addams Family but at the rate in which used pins are rising I don't see it possible. People who can't afford a $10,000 NIB will start looking at the used pins. I give it time before us little guys are pushed out of the hobby all together.