Look on RGP and Pinball Bash folks are listing all their classics at top dollar.

Who cares? Listing and selling are two completely different things. Where the pavement meets the road is where the sale is at. If the car never comes off the jacks, the tires can spin all they want and the car will never go anywhere (to use a metaphor).

Man, the love for Space Shuttle is the only thing that gets me motivated to get the playfield swap going. I'm glad I opened this thread.

Suddenly a lot of classics are popping up for sale

Um..the person who started the thread. I included the title once more to help you out buddy ; )

Coffee time for someone.

I like how you picked what you wanted to respond to from my comment. Another out of context response shot from the hip.

Ok , entire quote and the original thread topic is still the same

The thread title did not say " I wonder if these really sell or I wonder what they really sell for etc.

So to the OP I was supporting that there are games suddenly being thrown out there even if at dumb prices since some folks were saying they dont see that.

Since I clearly am misquoting your remarks to me...What is your point to that stream?

You were the one that drifted to the RGP posts. All I did was give you a comment with an explanation for the comment. It's so tiring reading/seeing all the crying about pricing. If nobody buys at those prices, the prices will come down.

If you look on RGP and know the people posting, you'll see that they are just demonstrating absurdity by being absurd. You bit, hook, line and sinker. They know the market and also know their pins are safe, they aren't getting out of pinball.

Who is "they".....just like you know your 401k is "safe" in the stock market.....

And the fact is you can buy just about any pin at any time that you want to pick one up....it may not be in the condition you want or at the price you want, but all are available and yes, more are popping up because of the higher prices....there are 3 CV's on Mr. Pinball in just the last week...just one example...

The most amazing about that clip is how young Brian Doyle-Murray looked. Have you seen him lately? He has not aged well.

Pump and dump....Newer games coming out and everyone wants in.

Given the prices that I see some of these pins selling for, it's hard to resist not jumping on the bandwagon. I really love my TOTAN, but I could get a heck of a lot of cash for it right now. I have to admit, it's very tempting to just take the money and run.

You wanna make money now is the time to do it..Once these newer games are out things will go back down to normal again.

You may have a good point. It's not unreasonable to think the prices are going to come down. Just look at the prices of woodrail machines today compared to 5-10 years ago.

May come down a bit but not likely. Probably wont go up much more and more importantly buyers will start to evaporate. Thats the real kicker. Get the buyers while you can.

Another out of context post, lighten up Francis, it's only pinball (not a 401K) . If you bothered to read who I was referring to (on RGP), they (the OP's on RGP) know that they put crazy prices on their games just to poke fun at the price police. They have no intention of selling their games so they are indeed safe.

You do however make a good point that some people will pay "crazy" money for games so they indeed may not be safe if someone calls their bluff. Of course, I doubt any of you would sell your prize games if someone offered you crazy money for them. You'd be happy to sell at early 90's prices instead. Anyone that says they would dump their games for cheaper than today's market value, please contact anyone that is a known seller (not me, I'm tapped at the moment).

As someone unfamiliar with the woodrail market, can you enlighten me?

AC/DC, Xmen, Woz and Avengers (?) next...probably followed by a string of more great pins.....I think you are right on DC....

Not to mention JPop . . . if JPop "pops" so to speak and his pins do what many think they will do it may be JPop who dominates the modern 21st century ultra high end pin market and modern games (that are already better looking, flow better, sound better, and play faster than the 90's classics anyway) like Tron LE and AC/DC LE could be the B-listers of our era (hard to fathom, but it is true).

So true Tiger, forgot about Jpop, did you get on the list...

So true Tiger, forgot about Jpop, did you get on the list...

I exchanged a few emails with him. Very nice gentleman, wasn't expecting him to email me himself. I'll know if I snuck in before the lock (so to speak) this week.

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Seems like a great guy...he is really good on email replies...hope that cat makes it!

It's obviously because people are dropping 10x more than they are worth on pins these days. In one year the prices have shot through the roof, and obviously there are a lot of suckers with an endless supply of cash.
Sell away my friends, you'll be able to buy them back in a few years for far less once the fad has shifted to something new and half of these pins are laying broken in some rich guys basements. I wish I knew what the next thing was, I'd start stocking up now.
I remember when jukeboxes were the big thing, man they were going for thousands more than they were worth. They're hard to get rid of these days.

People said the same thing about Muscle Cars. I don't see the old prices on those, and they shot up a long time ago.

The good news is this: The hobby of pinball is alive and well in peoples homes. Bad new: The prices reflect it.

+1

Seriously?? You have not noticed the games being sold? Mbs, AFMs, Cvs etc.

But games are sold every year, every month, every week, year in year out

I haven't noticed an increase from what I've been seeing over the past few years. At least in my area, I haven't seen 'a lot of classics popping up'. ...keeping my eyes open though.

Please contact me the next time a CQ MB for less than $8500 is within 500 miles of zip 53527

The only ones I've seen are the restored variety going for top dollar, no beater/routed versions anywhere. That says something about the market and who's playing it.

I can't even find an early 80's beater for less than $700 around here

+1. I've been looking for a project machine for a while now with no luck.

Thats a good point of clarification and more of what going on.

Somewhere around twice as high--somewhere around 10 years ago.

Hmmm....