We pay way too much for our pins. Even though they have come down a little at the moment they are still expensive.
I predict that all prices on pins in Australia will plummet in the next 5-10 years. Lets face it most (not all) collectors are over 35++. Most (not all) under this age couldnt give a stuff about pinball. Eventually all us old farts or our kids when were gone will end up flooding the Australian market with pins as we die or downsize. So there will be a shit load of pins on ebay and no one will want them.
Ok, I'll bite
Plummet - way, way too strong and I also think the wrong direction.
Yep. most of us are over 35. We now have increasing resources to fritter away on on our passions in a sad, desperate attempt to relive the glory days of our youth. Home loans paid off, kids gone, or both soon to be, so more room and more money and looking for things to amuse us in retirement and make us feel younger. TV shows like Collectors and articles in the SMH and Age on the nostalgia, collectability, value and desirability of pins Widespread info on the web on how to maintain them, show of your work and skills, the over the shoulder reminiscent look of how things were "really good" in the old days etc Thanks to ebay widely available pins without having to know someone, look in the back alleys of milkbars or council chuck out days, no need to get up early to scour garage sales etc. All we need is deep pockets, which we have due to more disposable income and desire, which we also have.
In my opinion, over the next 10 years prices will undoubtedly rise. Take a peak of SS machines from around the late 70's, early 80's when the player was 15-20. That means they are about 35- 50 so will be going strong for at least another 15 years; 25 years would not be unreasonable. I think what is lowering the prices at the moment is the general depression of the economy - whether real or not, the perception is there and secondly there has been an influx of imported container machines. To me this seems to have lowered the price of earlier DMD's, depressed SS machines that aren't top line titles and EMs have stayed about the same. All of them are decreasing in number.
This is a fact....
no,this is wild speculation and supposition on your part
I know some of you will think Im full of crap, <snip>
On this we agree
