Interesting site with a summary of average prices of Ebay sales of pins in the last 18 months.

http://www.bostonpinball.biz/Sales_Summary_Jun07.htm

well thats different.  nice to see and nice set up

For the truly geeky....
(...you gotta love Excel ! )

Top 10 Games Sold
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Addams Family        234
Twilight Zone           156
Fish Tales               126
Terminator 2           124
KISS                       108
Lethal Weapon 3     108
ST:TNG                   108
Jurassic Park           105
Black Knight            101
Playboy BLY              98


Top 25  Average Price ( Qty > 1 )
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Title                       Avg Price         Qty Sold
Cactus Canyon           6,378              10
Medieval Madness      5,429              46
Niagara                     4,451               2
Spiderman                 4,125               2
Monster Bash             4,004              33
Family Guy, The          3,947               5
Attack From Mars        3,794              24
Cirqus Voltaire            3,724              22
POTC                        3,562              42
Lord of The Rings       3,543              53
NASCAR                     3,371              32
Elvis                          3,360              44
Sopranos, The           3,353              34
TSPP                         3,265              50
World Poker Tour        3,229              21
Addams Family, The      3,221             234
Safecracker                3,176              10
Scared Stiff                 3,107              43
Indiana Jones             3,059              88
Harley Davidson          3,027              11
Theatre of Magic         3,019              69
Joust WMS                  2,971               2
Twilight Zone              2,893             156


Top 10 Highest Max Price
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Addams Family, The     14,334
Medieval Madness        8,802
Scared Stiff              8,700
Buffalo Bill              8,601
Monster Bash          8,000
Attack From Mars     8,000
Cactus Canyon        7,901
Cyclone GTB           7,500
Indiana Jones         7,400
CFTBL                    6,700
Niagara                  6,101


Some surprises in there...
(AFM selling for more than CV ???? )

Happy reading.

Steph

The 14K one was most likely the NIB gold one

Quoted from Vengeance

The 14K one was most likely the NIB gold one

Yah, that's the one.

I was also a little puzzled that there was only two Joust pins listed.

I know of at least 4 that sold on eBay since last December,
all of them over $4K.
(... yes, I've been keeping an eye on them !  

Cheers,
Steph

Quoted from Steph

Yah, that's the one.

I was also a little puzzled that there was only two Joust pins listed.

I know of at least 4 that sold on eBay since last December,
all of them over $4K.
(... yes, I've been keeping an eye on them !  

Cheers,
Steph

I think they only calculated the pins listed on ebay.com.  I'm pretty sure 2 of the Joust pins that came up recently were on ebay.ca.  

As I have stated in the past, Ebay should not be used as a gauge to value a pin... the Niagara pin is a great example... 2 of them sold for big bucks, probably because 2-3 guys wanted one REAL bad, but then again it doesn't mean that the pin is worth what it sold for...

Also, there is always the condition... I have seen some HUO pins that were beat to mess, and some route pins that were very nice... So just because you see an Addams Family sell for 14000$, doesn't mean that yours is worth as much, even if it was also a Gold.

I totally agee!  ToM is way over rated ... sheesh.  People should liquidate their stock of that one immediately before the value falls any more!  I know I certainly would grudgingly accept one for under $2000 to help out a fellow MAACA friend in need.  

Many keep saying pins like TOM are overated, but their value keeps rising. Five years ago, when they were 6-7 years old and still in good shape, you could get one for the low two thousand dollars. Try to find a shopped one under $3000. All the Williams A- List pins seem keep rising $100-200 per year. Five years ago you could buy a TZ for under $2500, try to find one now for under $3500. People laughed when I bought my HUO TZ last year for over four thousand and now I see members selling routed TZ for four thousand dollars.
The value of A-list games will rise or a least hold and Ebay sales back that up. In reading this chart of Ebay sales, if you discard the top 5% sales of any pin (because someone did a great restoration) and bottom 5% sales (because the pin has issues), you will find the EBAY value of any pin is pretty accurate on what the market value.  

We old timers (hic) forget too that the dollar is constantly rising (value depreciating) - inflation.  I laughed when my salary earnings in my 30's were higher than my Dad's in the early 90's (but of course he got a pension), but cry when I hear what they are paying some 20 year olds today!

Still, winning the lottery aside, why isn't it that I couldn't be the one to find some pinball time vault somewhere....    Or maybe I should just get to know you all better and come play at your houses!? (lol)

Still if anyone needs to dump their ToM stock, I will buy at bargain basement prices (somehow).

Ebay tends to be the dumping ground for less than stellar condition pins. Unless it is one of the high end restoration jobs the rest of it is pretty run of the mill condition stuff. I don't know if the prices are reflective of the dumped pins or more of the high priced full restoration stuff. I would suspect the greater volume is the dumping.