Whip out your inflation calculators and old for sale ads folks!!

This isn't rocket science, though I do admire the clever attempt at sneaking another price bubble thread in under the cover of something else! Young minds, fresh ideas!

Through about 2011, B-list tier WPC games were going still going for $1100 in good shape. All day. And the truth is, prices in the hobby rose very little the first 10 years I was involved (2001-2010), except for a tiny handful of exceptions like MM, which was the single game that incurred most of the "price bubble thread" wrath back then from one-issue voters (people who wanted MM and were desperately convinced the upcoming economic collapse would make it happen).

Now, these b-list WPC games are minimum 2500 (and that is a rarity), with most surpassing 3,000. You'd be hard pressed to find ANY non-EM used game that hasn't increased in cost by at least 100 percent.

That's about a 100-300 percent increase across the board. I'm no economist, but I don't think we've experienced 100-300 percent inflation in our economy in 10 years.

I can't speak for the frozen dairy dessert market, but like I said, while I appreciate your creativity in trying to squeeze another drop of 10 year old rotten milk out of the price bubble carton by calling it orange juice, your theory that pinball has simply experienced "normal inflation" is completely inept.

No, it's not a price bubble thread. Even though it is.

Just because you declare that a price bubble thread isn't a price bubble thread it doesn't make it so!

Reminds me of that Richard Pryor movie where a bunch of pyramid scheme con men are selling the idea that it's actually a "trapezoid" so it's not a con.

At this point I'm borderline insane, and pretty much see all threads as "price bubble" threads.

Right. The last guy insisted he was doing a thread about the 2008 Housing Crisis.

I would back an official Crazy Levi Memorial Price Discussion Thread.

It has always been obvious - I'm talking back to the RGP days - that people cannot get enough of price discussions. It really is the straw that stirs the drink around here. Instead of our bi-weekly price bubble threads a permenant Price Thread would make great sense.

Yes, yes, I think we've all figured out pins cost more than they used to by now.

What's the point of this fuggin' thread again?

The dedicated "Pricing Thread" can't come fast enough.

It's gonna be like 1979 again!

Well at least I'll be able to pick up some Billy Beer. So kitchsy!

Bullshit. I have records right here baby! WHere's your documentation?

Not my fault you were overpaying for games back then.

Here's the games I bought in 2010 / 2011. Yeah there were a couple old lady steals like the creature but the vast majority were bought off RGP or Mrpinball.

Bronco 1/10 500
High Speed 2 2/10 1250
NBA Fastbreak 2/10 1250
Blackout 3/10 600
Flicker 3/10 500
Firepower 5/10 700
CFTBL 7/10 1000
Taxi 8/10 800
KISS 8/10 1000
Prospector 9/10 500
No Good Gofers 10/10 1300
Popeye 11/10 900
Wipeout 11/10 400
Capt Fan 12/10 1300
Jackbot 12/10 1100
space odyssey 12/10 700
space mission 12/10 500

Bow and arrow 1/11 400
Road Kings 1/11 900
Strange Science 1/11 free
AFM 2/11 2400
Fireball 2/11 600
Dracula 3/11 1100
Mars Trek 3/11 600
Joker Poker 3/11 800
Simpsons 4/11 700
Meteor 6/11 500
Jungle King 8/11 250
BOPinbot 8/11 1100
Jackbot 9/11 1100
Fish Tales 10/11 1000
Bobby Orr 12/11 500

This thread is dead anyway baby.

Time for a new price thread tomorrow!

The frozen dairy dessert market balloon is bound to pop (see this IS NOT a bubble thread).

Only idiots are buying frozen dairy desserts today, when the price is bound to plummet next year.

Prices are up, yet build quality is down!!!

Same old story!

I bet those cones have serious dimpling issues. They try to explain that it's "waffling" and it's totally normal but we all know that's horseshit!