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Stern Pricing

Paul

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Stolen from Kaneda on FB - Good illustration of Stern machine prices in the US though..

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Too much too fast??

I guess whilst the US market is "happy" to pay the prices then they will continue. I was out ages ago.... Never had a NIB and consigned to the fact never will do (Unless that overdue lottery win comes in!).... :)
 
Going back to Family Guy/Spiderman etc - I remember them being 4K ish. Let's face it - every game was a Premium then (nothing taken off like a pro - things like mini PFs etc).....

I do remember Phil P offering me a Big Bang Bar he had left for (I think) around £7/8k..... I went 'who the duck is going to spend that on a pinball machine????'

Darn that time machine.....

Over in the UK we have had more factors. Things like the cost of shipping spike.

Would be good to compile a UK one.
 
A friend bought 2 NIB pros together in 2014, Star Trek and The Walking dead, for £8500. Pretty much the price of 1 pro now :mad:
 
Kelsbells said:
People starting to take some major hits on any nib stern acquired in last 12 months and will be the same moving forward
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Yes, basically the take-home message is not to buy a NIB Stern unless you intend to keep it long term. And that kills the model whereby people buy NIB, and then swap/sell for the next Stern release, and also means that no one is going to buy sight unseen or less popular titles (because they won't know if they want to keep them long term).
 
Kelsbells said:
People starting to take some major hits on any nib stern acquired in last 12 months and will be the same moving forward
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That was certainly the way until the Covid bubble. A NIB depreciating by £500-1k was pretty normal.

The plus side was that your Stern pro was swappable for pretty much every other one because the NIB price was similar. I've seen a turtles swapped for a Star Wars, Deadpool for a JP and JP for Guardians with no cash involved.

The problem we have now is that nobody will be swapping a Bond pro for a BKSOR or Stranger Things without wanting money their way.

Losing money on a nib is to be expected, it's the sudden disparity in value which is a bit of a pain.
 
Gonzo said:
That was certainly the way until the Covid bubble. A NIB depreciating by £500-1k was pretty normal.

The plus side was that your Stern pro was swappable for pretty much every other one because the NIB price was similar. I've seen a turtles swapped for a Star Wars, Deadpool for a JP and JP for Guardians with no cash involved.

The problem we have now is that nobody will be swapping a Bond pro for a BKSOR or Stranger Things without wanting money their way.

Losing money on a nib is to be expected, it's the sudden disparity in value which is a bit of a pain.
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Losing money on nib should be expected unfortunately it’s not £500-1k hits now it’s £2-3k on prems and LE’s as highlighted by recent sales. Also we’re in a weird place where games that are unloved due to incomplete code at the outset eg bond, stranger things maybe venom end up holding their value way better long term due to respective lack of units sold in uk market compared to the supposed best game of all time, beware exactly the same thing in 2 years if they nail it with jaws!
 
Kelsbells said:
Losing money on nib should be expected unfortunately it’s not £500-1k hits now it’s £2-3k on prems and LE’s as highlighted by recent sales. Also we’re in a weird place where games that are unloved due to incomplete code at the outset eg bond, stranger things maybe venom end up holding their value way better long term due to respective lack of units sold in uk market compared to the supposed best game of all time, beware exactly the same thing in 2 years if they nail it with jaws!
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Yes, but - to be fair to the owners of those pins - they are babysitting a box with lights for months/years in the hope that the code ends up half decent. And, at the end of that, they could still end up with a Munsters (which is perfectly decent, but not too popular on here).
 
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