Really, don’t mean to be doom and gloom? Sounds like exactly what you mean. I don’t understand all the threads bashing HIGH PRICE NIBs. Pins are a luxury collectible item. Prices rise on cars, watches, boats, ATVs, jet skis, etc. Costs of manufacture , licensing increase too. The market sets the price. People on Pinside complain but they buy the pins anyway. I just feel the whining is tired and played out. But to follow your argument to its (ill)logical conclusion, if the NIBs that you complain of were cheaper, then the market would perhaps be even more flooded. I don’t know what you are hoping for here Ice.

Now a Jimmy Buffet machine would be a great investment!