I would do that trade. I feel the going prices are very close to equal.

I feel wcs values higher, but they are close

Wish I had a nice Monopoly and we lived closer. Best of luck with your search.

I sold each of them for $2K.

Actually Monopoly was HUO. But I sold that about 8 years ago and figured that equals it out. And WCS went to a friend only a few weeks ago. I think it was nice. It was in The Sanctum for a few months so anyone who played it there can give you a condition opinion.

With prices like that how can you go wrong.

You will not find those prices regularly [or on Pinside]. But in New England there are a lot of games and a lot of good people. If they know you are a good buyer you will get good prices. A good buyer/sellers understand described condition, show up with the agreed upon cash, drive off with the pin and not call up about petty crap afterwards.

There are people who if I tell them I want a game they instantly say "Yours" knowing it will be an easy transaction. And I have had them tell me to give them less when I show up without me asking them. (They tack on wiggle room dollars for PITA buyers)

People in the hobby for the long haul learn the value in being a good buyer as well as a good seller.

That sounds just like me I don't haggle I show up with cash and stuff to move the pin. I'm obviously on the wrong coast. That's awesome that there's still people not trying to retire on every pin sale.

I feel like Mono is worth a little more (for some reason, probably because it's a Lawlor design) but WCS is a little better. YMMV of course.

I bought an HUO Monopoly around 2 years ago in NJ.

The game had less than 150 plays and Chestnut polished chrome hardware. I paid around $2,750. Probably too much, but it's a decent game in my opinion.

The primary price range for WCS (on pinside) is $2500 - 3500 over the last 2 years. There are some ads lower and some higher but that's the typical price range. If you see one for 2K it's most likely fresh off route and needs to be shopped or you found a great deal. The taxman sale is a perfect example: it was on route for at least the last 3 months at the Sanctum, and then he sold it to a friend for a good price. IMO there is a $300 difference for a shopped game vs off route needing to be cleaned. Don't expect to get a nice shopped game from a strangers collection that needs nothing for 2K - probably not gonna happen although I'm sure it occasionally does.

Sounds like a pretty even trade overall. I agree about the while good/bad seller thing. I fully restored a Space Shuttle a couple of years ago and decided to sell it. I passed on a couple of guys who sounded like flippers to me and ended up selling it to a guy who told me it was his grail pin that he had been looking for forever. I sold it to him for below what it was worth just so that he could have it and he ended up posting it not that long after for more than a grand more. He even used my original listing verbatim when he listed it for sale.

Sweet that a boy. Keep that sucker you know you would miss it. Any given day you don't play it, boom you sell it and every day you will be wishing you could play it. That's life. Keep hoarding that's what I do, hell even if I have to start folding them up I can always unfold and put it back in the line up. WCS is a fun game there is no way you won't miss it. Good choice Dir Sir.

Full disclosure I'm a pinball addict so my advice is of an addict.

If you do not play WCS I would just sell it. I had mine for a year and a half and enjoyed it a lot. but after I sold it I do not miss it at all. I just sold LOTR to get SW also. I don't miss that either even though it is one of the greats.

If you have kids or folks come over who like WCS keep it for them, but if it is mostly you and you don't play it then I would sell.

On Mono I kind of like it, but some friends warned me to stay away. I like fun quirky games and did buy RCT, a Lawlor from the same time frame as Mono and really liked it, but a POTC came up and RCT had to go to get it.

If you played and liked Mono grab it.

Your stronger than me. I've sold only one a DE Batman and sometimes wish I still had it. And that's a dog. Hat's off to those that can go through pins. Not me I want to have them all. I dream about creating a space for as many as I can afford and would love to share them with others. Heck us addicts have to stick together no one likes a quitter. LOL