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Like to hear your thoughts on the Mickey Mantle baseball card that sold for 5.2 million in January? Yes, the one wrapped in paper with a stick of chewing gum.
How about the Fabbri shotguns that now sell for over $200k
This is pretty common with just about anything deemed collectible.
Quoted from Beechwood:Yeah, but you don't want to play with your shotgun in the game room...
This is true
Quoted from woody76:I could not have said it any better. I have actually been pushing people away from the hobby lately. Several neighbors and friends want to buy games and I have told them to wait and see what pricing does in the near future or pursue different hobbies.
Pretty much any hobby these days costs a lot of money, golf, sport shooting/collecting firearms, cars, boats, flying airplanes, baseball cards, stamps, coins, collector guitars or fine art.
If your serious about any of these you be be spending thousands annually.
Not sure what is cheap these days. Maybe basket weaving or something along those lines.
Quoted from flynnibus:Maybe many people don't want pins to be thought of as 'collectibles' - but instead games to be played and admired.
I buy them with the expectation they may be worth nothing in the future. If people can’t come to grips with that thought then don’t buy it.
Quoted from CrazyLevi:Almost all analogies are nonsense because they all fail to take in to account that pinball machines have almost nothing in common with houses or cars. I don’t get the pathological obsession people have with trying to crowbar pinball machines into analogies where they don’t belong.
None of that shit has anything to do with pinball machines. And the idea that the hobby is somehow overrun with speculators buying pinball machines for no other reason than to sell them is pretty thin, and based upon pretty much zero evidence.
We just focus on the cargument because we are all sick to death of it, but most pinball market analogies are dumb fallacies regardless of what is used.
Your right, nothing to do with one another other than being a manufactured item with a ton of imported parts. I think cars are always brought into the discussion because almost everyone has one and is likely one of the most inflated items when it comes to pricing.
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