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GNR value?

ronnie63

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Any advise on an honest value for working minty? and working average?

Cheers Ronnie
 
Think the prices have headed north a fair bit lately - partly due to pinflation but also due to them touring again.
 
Like everything, they're worth what folk will pay - when there's lots of something, like TAF, and they all sell for X+, we can all agree that X is the base price. But with something a bit rarer, like GNR, a few richer individuals may snap them up and be willing to pay more than what others think is 'the going rate'. Is that wrong? Or unfair? Probably, but this is capitalism rather than communism we live in, so it's a fact of life.

We will see. Mine is currently up for sale and the person who came to view today has said he may not be offering the amount I'm asking. I think it's an above average example but others may have their own opinions depending on what they've seen available before and how long ago, and how much they want it and how much they can afford etc. So after he has had a few days to mull it over, and if he decides not to pull the trigger, I'll do a Dutch auction with it, with full disclosure and pics and video, starting high and going down £50 a day until it sells. Will it sell for £4000, £3800, £3600, £3400, £3200, £3000? Also bearing in mind the current glut on games on the market right now, plus the fact it's summer and we play our games less and are outdoors more and may have holidays and child entertainment to pay for ......

Meh. I'm rambling. Of all the games in the world, this is definitely one of them.
 
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cooldan said:
Like everything, they're worth what folk will pay - when there's lots of something, like TAF, and they all sell for X+, we can all agree that X is the base price. But with something a bit rarer, like GNR, a few richer individuals may snap them up and be willing to pay more than what others think is 'the going rate'. Is that wrong? Or unfair? Probably, but this is capitalism rather than communism we live in, so it's a fact of life.

We will see. Mine is currently up for sale and the person who came to view today has said he may not be offering the amount I'm asking. I think it's an above average example but others may have their own opinions depending on what they've seen available before and how long ago, and how much they want it and how much they can afford etc. So after he has had a few days to mull it over, and if he decides not to pull the trigger, I'll do a Dutch auction with it, with full disclosure and pics and video, starting high and going down £50 a day until it sells. Will it sell for £4000, £3800, £3600, £3400, £3200, £3000? Also bearing in mind the current glut on games on the market right now, plus the fact it's summer and we play our games less and are outdoors more and may have holidays and child entertainment to pay for ......

Meh. I'm rambling. Of all the games in the world, this is definitely one of them.
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A few have gone on eBay recently for 4000 and 4500

Looked like quite good versions tbf
 
Thanks guys, reason for asking I got offered one before being offered publicly and within a decent distance, the price tag is 3.5k I'm not really a big spender on pinballs so it will not be bought be me! I asked the guy if he wanted me to help him sell but he said he will probably Ebay it! each to their own.

Thanks Ronnie
 
Dust2000 said:
A few have gone on eBay recently for 4000 and 4500

Looked like quite good versions tbf
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They didn't sell though?

Anyway, every pinball is down to perceived value - just what one or more people decide to pay.

A couple of years ago STTNG was a £1000 game, tops.

Then one sells for nearly £2000 and it became a £2000 game.

Right now prices are like pass the parcel, with people hoping the next person will pay what they did.

If the music stops though, it might not be pretty:confused:

And NIB prices have dragged everything else up as they have made older games seem 'cheap'.

Would like a GNR but got no space right now....
 
^^^^^^ what he said

Plus, pinball is an incredibly thin market. I do not know how many buyers there are in the whole country, but it will be small. Certainly when I sold my bk2k I only had one buyer - advertised only on the forum. With my vector, no one on the forum was interested - 2 gumtree folk wanted it. My wpt attracted two buyers on the forum and one buyer on gumtree

It only takes three guys that want a certain title to bid it up on eBay and make it appear worth far more than we all thought
 
Hasn't there been a couple of GnR on eBay for ages? Around 4.5 K each as I recall. Kind of a high end Data East game, maybe a hard sell I guess?
 
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