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Why no price guide?
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on June 21, 2007, 08:30:46 pm ---Here's why there's no price guide.
Someone just sold a Taito Crazy Climber, that is missing a door on the front, and has no sound, for $1625 on ebay.
I got my good condition Nichibutsu upright for $350 because it had a bad joystick.
The last ultra-rare Nichibutsu Crazy Climber Deluxe cabinet that I saw sell went for $1050, and was also missing the coin box door on the front.
The Nichibutsu cabinets are the more desirable cabinets, but people paying more than they should for other cabinets makes it hard to have any kind of accurate pricing.
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Speaking of...
I lost my Nichibutsu at an auction for $425. It should've went for much more but the turn out was bad.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: shorthair on June 21, 2007, 08:53:08 pm ---I don't think that's it. Most involved publications are funded.
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As opposed to, say ... Mr. Pinball ?
eBay definitely skews the results and regional differences are more pronounced for vids than for pins. And the lower cost of vids means more newbies, which further skews the numbers.
There is, to my mind, no way to get a solid, universal handle on vid prices, with the possible exception of a ahndful of true high-demand items (say, SW cockpit, dedicated MH, Quantum, etc).
Malenko:
wouldn't it be slightly more feasible to just maintain a "estimated" value of working boards? Cabinet conditions and specifications vary too greatly, but the only variance in boards is working/non working and revision number, and I supposed wether or not its a bootleg
ChadTower:
"official price guides" are the beginning of the downfall of any hobby. We DO NOT want one.
shardian:
A price guide for boards would read like a baseball card price guide: 1 hundred billion entries at $20-$30, and a handful of keepers that have slightly higher values.
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