Prices still seem pretty high but machines posted on the local facebook board for my province definitely sit longer than they were a year ago. A year ago if you didn't buy within a day or two of the posting it was gone. Now I see machines sitting for much longer.

Increasing production seems like a no brainer, all of the scalping and prices going up is because supply is far outstripping demand. I'm interested how they are sourcing enough parts though considering how slow they can be honoring warranty claims...

This stuff annoys the hell out of me...those TMNT and Elvira boxes that were a couple pieces of cheap tat are just taking advantage of this community who seems willing to buy almost anything pinball related... who doesn't need an Elvira keychain?!

Pretty much every virtual pinball system calls them tables too... I don't get why it bugs the oldschool players so much. I guess just a way of gatekeeping or making themselves feel special?

I wonder how much of it is that it's a pro. It seems like people are a lot more eager to the higher trim machines and pros take a bit longer to sell. It also seems like the difference between a pro and premium on the newer machines is bigger. I have an IMDN pro and it's just two moving mechs different than the premium. Newer ones like godzilla you miss out on pretty big features if you get the pro.

Also people who can afford the LE/Premium tend to have more disposable income I think and seem to buy/sell more pins more frequently.

Pinball machines are flat, they're just on an angle (gotta love the ambiguity of the English language)

And I've been trying to think of some type of table that is angled as well just to make this argument even more annoying, but I got nothing. The only one I could think of is a tilt table but I don't think that counts.

A lot of scammers just grab pics from other ads and re-use them to appear legitimate.

Maybe it's a long con, post a bunch of sold ads for a game to make it look like the price is higher than it should be? That would be a lot of work lol...

I agree we're in for some considerable economic pain for the next few years, people will be selling their toys to afford food and living expenses at some point. Modern monetary policy is about to bite a lot of us in the ass very hard.

I'm on the fence as to whether pinball holds its prices a bit longer than other inflated hobbies because people who are in it have considerable discretionary income, or if the market get flooded harder because of how much money you potentially can recoup by selling one.

Seems in this hobby there is no shortage of people with significant disposable income so the new prices seem to be still below what an equilibrium with demand would be.

IT just released a new version of golden tee and it's several thousand more expensive than the old one and I've seen the golden tee topic on this board pick up with lots of new players getting it. More evidence that if you're the type who buys NIB pins/arcades you have quite a lot of discretionary income and a few thousand more doesn't really mean much.