We are down to the las hand full of machines getting sold out of the collection and I am trying to establish "fair" prices (being fair to both us and a buyer). Since the market seems to be all over the place these days it is really hard to know what price is logical. Especially on machines that don't come up for sale often.

First up is BTTF - very nice condition overall with one "major issue". That issue is side art on one side was bad and poorly touched up by someone before we purchased this machine. Otherwise the machine is in super nice shape with no wear or other damage.

Second machine is Pin-Pot in much nicer than average condition - little to no wear on the playfield - just one little speck of paint missing in the yellow below the target area.

And lastly a better than average Xenon - playing 100% and looks good but has wear between the flippers kind of below the main playfield (odd spot for wear) but that is where this one is worn. Rest of the playfield, cabinet & backglass all look great.

I hate doing these post and I know people hate seeing them but I am finding it harder & harder to figure out a logical price on machines these days.

Pinside shows BTTF at $5400 which seemed high to me.

Pinbot at $2600 which seemed low

And Xenon at $2000 which also seemed kind of low

That is what drives me about 1/2 crazy these days!

I would think $5000 (give or take a few dollars) would be "logical" for BTTF because it rarely comes up for sale and it is a pretty neat machine but I wasn't sure if my thinking was logical on that. As far as Pinbot & Xenon - at least they do come up for sale once in a while so they are a little easier to gauge a price on.

With how crazy things have gotten with pricing & this hobby I'll be glad to see the last of our machines sold and gone so I don't have to try and figure this stuff out anymore. Prices have gotten "beyond insane" in some cases but crazier yet is people are paying those insane prices?

Anyway - thanks upfront for any and all input on this.

These days that is the way it is starting to feel!

We will have a few pins in the collection so I'll likely "lurk" some but I doubt I'll have much new to post since I am going to basically be done with buying and selling machines. I don't know if we can change our name here on Pinside but if I can maybe the correct "new name" would be "too-many-trains" since I got into that hobby in a huge way over the past couple years (since Covid). When I started back into the trains I had a few dozen items from my childhood collection and I am now up to over 700 Stor-All size boxes of model railroad stuff. For some reason I can never seem to keep things to a logical scale?

BTTF sold at $5000 so I guess that should be considered "fair market value" for a decent looking BTTF it today's market

Thanks for the input!

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