So... everyone's always complaining about the $1000-$3000+ common arcade game up for sale on CL or eBay. Where it sits for 2 months until the listing finally gets deleted.
What is the real reason behind that listing? To obtain best offers? Is it the sellers TRUE intent on wanting to sell their game? Or would they just part with it if some idiot does want to pay 2-3x the normal price?
By now, we've been in this hobby for what? 20-30 years? And how many pac-man's, ms. pac-man's, donkey kong's, missile command's, and 100+ other titles have been sold during those 2-3 decades? A lot.
So the best price guide (used by the world) is known as:
https://www.pricecharting.com/
Sure it's all for consoles and game carts. But the same exact principle and basics can be applied towards the arcade game hobby. Someone just has to have some initiative to get it started. I think pricecharting is all based mostly on historical ebay and amazon sales.
But if this hobby had a historical database of all games sold publicly over the past 20-30 years with all vital data like; location, condition, restored, dedicated, conversion/kit, rarity, orig asking price, agreed on price, etc, etc... we'd have something valuable here.
Until that happens (wishful thinking, it probably will never happen), prices will always be based on human element, emotions, stupidity, and a little intelligence/research.
This is why we have KLOV. A place where we can express our opinions on prices on a global scale. It's always going to be volatile market, enjoy the adventure!
