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I guess this will boost the sale of TBL:s inside EU.
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I wonder why the European distributors have not put on their websites the prices that would be applicable now if one orders a pin. Funny that none of the distributors have broken the ranks and all display the +25% prices on their websites... Perhaps they commonly want to set the +25% prices as being the new normal?
Quoted from aeneas:Probably because what they have in stock now is bought with the fee, and they don't want to sell with a loss ?
Only new orders (when their stock is sold out) will come in with lower fee, and then we'll hopefully see this..
Seems that some hobbyists' should buy the pins with +25% prices so that the others would see the normal prices again from the EU distros 
I don't see many volunteers
Finnish distro is a nice exception, they published today their prices that do not include the penalty payment anymore. Too bad they offer only Stern machines.
Quoted from Faust:There is no stock with these +25% prices. The only pinball that was available and released in this time was GnR LE and Led Zeppelin.
From my distributor he said only a few LZ were ordered by customers. All other games were already long time in Europe but were sold by the distro's at the +25% increase.
Nobody sold much new during this time and all distro's knew this was a temporary measure so they would be crazy to stock hundreds of pinballs.
So they mostly earned 25% more on selling existing stock.
The distro's, like Freddy's Pinball, immediately upped prices even on parts they already had in stock with 25% regardless where it came from.
Look at what they ask now for the Medieval Madness topper: 900 euros!! He already had these long before the price increase (when I also bought one).
From one day to the next it was more expensive.
But yeah, bringing it back down will not happen in his shop, unless people stop buying apparently.
My Dutch distro has also nicely reduced the price.
I guess one should look and see, which distros have the normal prices up again and deal with those in the future then.
The evil distros should not take advantage of this situation like you described - they can only be evil to some extent.
Quoted from Dr-pin:Which mean that it is practically useless, since most games are on backorders atm?
Hopefully they will get the matter sorted in 4 months, so that new orders would be without the fee. There will most probably be quite extensive backlogs to be fulfilled by the factories, so the new orders might fall outside of the 4-month window, in case the penalties are not abolished altogether.
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