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Pinflation or inflation?

By SantaEatsCheese

3 years ago


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    #8 3 years ago

    Levi’s out on this one.

    tl;dr Thanks to the runaway Fed, 1 out of 3 dollar bills in your pocket has been printed in the past 12 months.

    Look at the stock market. The dollar is rapidly devaluing to nothing and many “luxury items” are really just stores of value.

    The dollar has BEEN worthless for many years, but it’s taken Covid and printing 30% + percent of all bills in the past 18 months alone for people to finally lose faith in our stupid fiat currency.

    The stock market, luxury items, cryptocurrency and precious metals aren’t going “up” in value. The USD is worthless and the buying power AND faith in it as a global currency has evaporated.

    However, as a consolation to Levi and pin owners, the bubble won’t “burst” the latest stimulus laws about 1099’ing digital payments and the recent changes in how the fed actually reports how much money they print have been setting up for the debut of the Digital Dollar. It’s not a crazy theory, dozens of other countries already have their own digital currency and the US one will roll one out too.

    #67 3 years ago
    Quoted from CrazyLevi:

    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

    Lol, I paid near the exact same price for a few games off that list just recently... is the pinflation “Myth” busted?!?

    Deals are still to be had, and there is still shit sitting for the same prices the past 10 years. I just bought a Hollywood Heat for $500 and it SAT for weeks at that price. Inflation and pinflation are real since, as you’ve all noticed, hardly any of the old farts die, yet there are more and more <1 year accounts popping up every day.

    If you stop trying to buy the overhyped A++ list games like MM, MB, and Addams, then you’re gonna get burned by the price. Just buy Gottliebs and other “shitty” games, prices are pretty reasonable still and those games are honestly great!

    #70 3 years ago
    Quoted from DocFinlay:

    More fuel for the fire.... A Williams 1987 Fire! sold today for $6,125. That was a $4900 bid + 25% buyers fee on a Bidsquare auction from Hollywood, FL. How out of line is that? Well according to PinballPrices.com (yes, that's my website) a fully restored Fire! recently sold on eBay for $3500 and it was truly restored. The other verified sales in 2020 were for $1800 and $2360.
    Now the auction site did describe this machine as "collectors quality" but the pictures posted don't really support that classification. Here's a link https://www.bidsquare.com/online-auctions/whitleys-auctioneers/williams-1987-pinball-amusement-machine-fire-556-2136705
    And to bring some stats to the discussion, the average price of a used pinball machine went up $440 in 2019, another $423 in 2020, and this year (based on 250 tracked sales) prices are up $789. That's more than 20% per year.
    These stats are based on more than 1,500 verified sales each year (2018-2020). The average includes all titles sold that year from old EM's to "new" resales. I am working on an article for Pinside with a lot more detail and stats, comparing individual title price changes.
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    Yes but don’t we generally ignore auction prices? I’ve seen shitbox projects sell at auction for thousands above real, common price.

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