Quoted from DJSLYKE:Never assume that you'll get your value back on any mods/upgrades that you install, just look at the custom car market. Just because you like it, doesn't guarantee someone will pay for it. I wouldn't pay extra for LED's or power coated legs and rails.
Steve
You are 500% correct. When people put a thousand or more into their pin on mods/upgrades they shouldn't expect to get it back no different then when you put a nice built in pool in your backyard.....or putting expensive rims, TV's, etc on your conversion van. Ever try selling a conversion van. I bought one many years ago that was beautiful (we used it for many Disney trips). The original price was like $70K and 5 years later I got it for $13K.....I sold it about 6-7 years later for $4K after having many fun years with it. You normally get killed on "extras" regardless what you buy (even a new home....sure you will recoup some of your money but rarely 100% and many times much less).
The best thing to do if someone can't "handle the heat of posting in a forum" is to just post in MARKETPLACE or don't post on pinside at all. It has taken me 9 people looking and coming to my house (as my I500 just went on Friday) to buy 8 pins just using CL. Trust me, the local pinsiders look on CL and I would say 4 pins sold were to pinsiders and 4 to non-pinsiders so posting on CL gives you a "bigger market" in my opinion. Plus, I only want local sales so someone can view the pin and I don't want to mess with shipping. My I500 just sold yesterday for $2,750 without any problems at all so my suggestion is to use CL or EBAY if you don't like the heat or price it to sell (EA BUNDY never gets any heat as well as many sellers on here that price their games very fairly). Others that want top dollar normally just post in Marketplace.
Bottomline......we all have choices. You don't want any negative price comments don't use the forum environment or learn to deal with it.