Quoted from CrazyLevi:"significantly" is a loaded word.
How much do you stand to lose on your average LE game? $500? $1000 at the most?
For most of the time I've been in pinball - before the rush of free-spending newbies - you'd lose that exact amount just by opening the box on ANY NIB game. It's only a recent phenomenon that buyers expect their NIB games to "hold their value," or even APPRECIATE.
If you don't want to lose any of that "new car" money, stop buying new games. I don't think losing $500 on a year old GOTLE constitutes a "significant" loss, but at this point we are seeing the bizarre phenomenon of people taking natural depreciation personally, as if it's some kind of insult. My toaster is worth less than when I bought it new, why wouldn't the same be true for your pinball machine?
I’d say easily $1500 on XMLE probably others as well like Avengers and WWE.
I had immaculate XMLE listed twice and $5k or $4900 everyone was saying that’s a great price but no one was buying it. Finally traded for TWD pro was a money loss but a win for me with TWD punching above its cost.