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New Game Pricing Now Vs Then

By fryeguy7

10 years ago


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    #24 6 years ago
    Quoted from PinMonk:

    Yeah, Stern had essentially 100% price inflation in less than 10 years, and the quality is reduced in that same timeframe.

    He paid $3840 for his Stern IJ (including shipping) in 2008. A 2018 Stern Pro costs $5400 shipped. So a 41% price increase in ten years. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, inflation is responsible for a 15% increase in prices over that same 10 year period.

    #26 6 years ago
    Quoted from PinMonk:

    A Stern 2008 pin was comparable to a Premium, not a current stripped out cost-reduced Pro. The 100% comparison stands.

    LOTR sure, don’t know if Stern IJ feels particularly Premium but to each his own.

    If you’re doing a Premium comparison though, you’re looking at an 87% price increase (GOTG Premium is $7200 street price, I believe). To get your 100% price increase, you’ll want to compare to the LE.

    #33 6 years ago
    Quoted from vid1900:

    $3650 in 2008 with inflation is $4627 in 2018
    Even with the Stereo sound, no EPROM re-programming, color displays, LED lighting.........you guys are getting your asses ripped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

    The good old days will not return ...

    Some of this is probably a result of JJP - looked like they’d be a competitor for Stern but instead they just proved that there’s a lucrative market willing to pay much more for NIB pins than anyone could have imagined.

    The good news is that you can still play them on location - coin drop prices barely seem to have tracked inflation, so there are still great bargains to be had in pinball courtesy of you local operator.

    #52 6 years ago
    Quoted from jfre81:

    location pins could be charging $2-3 a play to keep up with inflation on the coin drop from the 50-cent norm in the 80s/90s.

    Yep, $1 is an extremely reasonable price for Pinball when you consider inflation and the cost of buying and maintaining these machines. And yet many places still offer $.75 or even $.50 a game for newer Sterns. However much we bitch about the cost of NIB games, it’s a golden age as far as cost to the route player.

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