River Edge, NJ
Quoted from TheRingMaster:What's the reason they only make like 150-200 of these repros for old games? To keep the price up since people will jump on the list very fast? Or are they not sure how many they can sell and don't want to be sitting with like 100 pfs that are impossible to sell? For me it feels almost like bad reputation for them cause every time I hear about a repro I think well no need to even bother cause they will be sold out anyway... Imo I would like them to be a bit more flexible or at least make more so everyone can have their PF. If it's a licensing issue I think it sucks. I understand it's a huge task to make a repro but when they have all the artwork, stencils and what not done why not make more...
It's because these things can be expensive and they can't predict how many will sell. It's why CPR was doing the preorder system of sorts. Most of these guys doing the repros aren't huge businesses with a ton of cash laying around. Production isn't cheap. Yes, it's cheaper probably to do one larger run than two smaller runs, but with no guaranteed sales, it's a huge risk.
Any time a new playfield is announced, there are a lot of people lined up saying "I want one" but when the time comes to pony up the cash, who knows how many actually will. They made 8k BOPs. How many playfields should they run?
