"...it’s not normal to have pinball machines in your kitchen." I'm stealin' that line.

Kinda sounds like me, used to buy pins a ton in the 80s and 90s but last one I bought was in '06, though I still have seven keepers I've hung onto a long time. Today's prices do seem ridiculous compared to what I used to pay but 20-30 years is a long time. Pins and cars and houses are gonna go for what they go for, I can't do nothin' about it. Inflation, not nearly as many new pins being made, more people collecting them since much fewer places to play them on location, etc. Even though I ain't really shopping anymore it does seem like pins you see posted for sale in here are a lot more reasonable and much closer to 'reality' than Ebay etc. asking prices.