If you bought a METLE for $9K two years ago, you'd be able to flip it today for a nice $6,000 profit without much hassle. Huzzah.
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Quoted from TechnicalSteam:I'm just saying - 5-10 years from now going there are going to be some rather perturbed people if they looked at games as an investment.
Say you spent 100k in todays market and 5 years from now that collection is worth only 60k and you are a home user.
Let's say you borrowed towards some of those purchases. End result your "investment" will never pay off even if your playing 300 games a month on average.
The winners are people that Route and can sell without occurring to much depreciation. As a home owner you cannot depreciate the loss.
Now MET LE might retain its value for 5 or 10 years longer. Nothing wrong with people selling games and getting their due.. It's the buyers who need to beware.
You've been here 6 years. How much has the market deflated in that time? I've been buying and selling games since 2004. If I had $100K worth of games back in 2012, I would now have easily $300K+ in value for that same collection. So why is the next period of time any different? Why is your red flag for the future of the pinball market any more valid than the guy that looked and sounded just like you saying that people paying $6500 for MM were going to lose their ass? Or the guy that said the same thing when it was $8500? Or $10,000? Or $12,500? Every day someone is a confident market predictor in this hobby, and on those same days the confident market predictors of yesterday are wrong.
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