Why do Stern need distributors anyway ? serious question here. Stern keeps complaining about some dealers giving price Under the value they allow to certain customers. Yet after that, word gets out.....some people are unhappy because their distributor did not give them the same price. after that there is people inventing street prices just to upset some people more.

Question is.....Stern seems to be more than capable to manage their sales on their own. Standard prices, same info and way more reliable to everyone. They know what is happening and have direct answers to have a better Customer experience. Would seem like a good bang for the buck too.

So why ?

Right, I forgot about the white gloves treatment. Would be cool also to have exact numbers on pin sold for new pins. You can track old pins production numbers but I would like to see how many AC/DC, MET or TRON (that last one is for you Flank) Stern produced and sold.

That's an aspect of this world I know nothing about. So few locations for us to play up here. We do have lots of arcades but most of them have driving games, vids and no pinball. No chance for me to come in contact and learn about OP's and location aspects.