TimothyC
Well-known member
That's the problem with your argument, people will pay more now for something that looks nice as they don't have the skills nor the desire to bring a game to like new.
You don't have an endless supply of perfect original games, so people don't have a choice. They buy what they want now. If you put both in front of the buyer and they could actually see the poor quality of the reproductions, most will take the unrestored option if its close.
This .
Without a doubt the overwhelming majority of fully restored games are worth more than nice originals in this hobby currently and it's almost entirely due to the two factors mentioned above: Buyers not having the skill or time to freshen up nice examples (eg. applying a true NOS cpo to an already extremely nice survivor) and the scarcity of true 9/9.5 out of 10 originals. If you put a perfect high end repro Quantam next to a 9 out 10 original I bet a lot of buyers would be comfortable spending a bit more on a near perfect original. It's just that there are so few huo type gems for sale that it's not really possible to compare pricing data.
Down the road I believe there will definitely be a premium on high end survivors (like early American furniture, early corvettes, etc.) over 'perfect' repros, but at the moment people do to seem to be paying up for said repros and IMO it's largely due to lack of skills and the belief that a perfect repro will be more reliable than a near perfect survivor.



