You're basically in the same situation that we were at in the US a few years back. At least, based on what I'm reading.
There were a number of people importing containers and selling the pins for profit. Most of those folks are either out of business, or don't do containers anymore. When comparing the quality of the pins in containers to the quality of pins in containers of previous years, the quality of the pins were much lower.
Yes, in the 'golden age' of containers, it was possible to request a container with 15 TAFs, 10 TZs, 12 IJs, 5 MM, 5 AFM etc and no Last Action Hero, No LW3, no Popeye, no Gottliebs etc. And the prices were still great!
Then, things started to dry up, and instead of getting a container full of 'gold', your container was mostly filler and a little gold, and the profit margins sank.
Pins are a luxury item. A lot of the collectors who have them are not effected by recessions. It's not a question of, do I buy this Addams, or do I eat this month? It's not a situation where they must sell anything in a fire sale to eat, because they lost their job. If they sell something, it's because they are tired of it, or out of space, and either taking the hit on value doesn't matter to them, or more likely, they just don't part with it.
Yes, there are hard working people who buy pins out there, who aren't wealthy, and I'm sure that if you're in that situation, selling a game can be quite painful. I've been there, lost a job, had to sell a bunch of pins to survive. But, a good quality machine is still worth a fair price.
With the popular machines being imported... it wouldn't lower the price of normal or not so popular machines because its only popular ones and the demand will still be overkill. its when people import cheap machines or not so wanted ones that the people that already have them lose value like LW3 popeye ect...
