I just took a quick look and eBay, and of the first 1000 listings under Pinball Machines (machines only), only 150 or so were auctions and only 14 had bids. Of the 14 with bids, 4 of the listings had not reached the reserve. Of the 136 so called auctions without bids, the starting price was unrealistic (IMHO).

Quick Math:
1000 Listings/150 Auctions= 15% of listings on an "auction" site are actually auctions
1000 Listings/14 with bids = 1.4% of listings have bids
150 Auctions/10 bids meeting reserve = 15% of the games might actually sell.

I wonder what percentage of the 14 games with bids have shill bids?

My unusual conclusion: At least 85 percent of the games listed on eBay will not sell on eBay. That is 850 + games.

What do you guys thinks happens to these games in the meantime while they are sitting unsold on eBay? I suspect they are sitting in someone's gameroom getting played (at least I hope so).

Best regards,

Tom

#2 10 years ago

MJS

dementedwarlok

Pinside member

Highland, IN

11y 57,650 2,600 4 9

I can see why the prices are high on ebay. I sold a pin for 400 and ebay took 40 bucks. last time i sell on ebay for sure.

#3 10 years ago

JJZ

toyotaboy

RandOM Pinball

Allyn, WA

12y 184K 11,936 3 14

That's because 80% of them are placeholders for pinball businesses, 5% are clueless people that think if they stay on ebay for 10 years, either someone is bound to bite, or the value of pinball will eventually catch up to their expectations. I wish ebay would enforce a new rule where you can only list the same item so many times, they are sucking up bandwidth / resources.

#4 10 years ago

MJS

dementedwarlok

Pinside member

Highland, IN

11y 57,650 2,600 4 9

I have noticed the ebay prices are starting to infect the craiglist prices. I still want that Phonix in Oswego for 450. I remember when it was 400 lol

#5 10 years ago

JJZ

toyotaboy

RandOM Pinball

Allyn, WA

12y 184K 11,936 3 14

Quoted from dementedwarlok:
I have noticed the ebay prices are starting to infect the craiglist prices

Dont' forget the niles guy who's telling a T2 or a no fear for $3300, "now is the time to deal!"

#6 10 years ago

RWW

wildwest3163

Inactive member

Lake City, FL

12y 29,900 72 17

eBays been that way for a while now

Look at the pinball catagory as a whole

23,350 listings

920 of them are actually auctions, with a large part of them with unrealistic starting prices. Thank you to the 30 day "store" listings

#7 10 years ago

MJJ

onceler

Inactive member

Round Lake, IL

10y 42,150 249 8

I think the Niles guy is a store; still doesn't make the crazy prices ok. For the past few years he's had crazy arcade prices as well.

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