Quoted from arcademojo:Let me ruffle some feathers here.
Are we finally in a real pinball price bubble? Caused by surge of new people in the hobby and lack of supply to keep up with the new trend. Has pinball become the new hip thing? Are rising prices giving people a false seance of security that they won’t lose money and spending every penny they have to keep up with the Jones’s? I keep meeting more and more people that just got into the hobby within the last 2 or 3 years that already have 40 to 60 k in pins in just those few short years. Took me 22 long years to get to get to that point. Of course I only paid about half of what they are worth now. Will these crazy prices keep going up, will we see the crazy prices come down like they did in 2008/2009? Funny you can easily tell who the resellers are on here and who is just in it for fun just by they way they reply to these threads.
did machines level off in 2008, 2009? there wasn't any crazy increase, but you still had your "make a buck" guys that ran around,
snagged up the craigslist deals, just to windex them and flip them on the same site.
i've been waiting for this bubble to pop since the 2010s. i have a bad feeling i'll be waiting a long time with what people
pay for now: site unseen, game unplayed, and all that. limited rush powdercoat: black. wow. thanks. but the flipping
of limited titles will do nothing but cause st3rn/JJP/spooky to constantly increase the MSRP.
when dealers have to pay 20% over cost to buy a jurassic park in today's market, you know there's a bigger problem.