Quoted from Shredso:

I bought mine a long time ago and don't have any of those issues. Maybe some people are pickier than me.

Quoted from tacshose:

My NIB LED MET PRO was delivered late July with a stamped April 01 2016 playfield. Backbox dated June 15th 2016. I have clear chipping at around shooter lane and also at outhole. 548 Balls played and 178 total plays. I am waiting to hear back from Stern.... I am also working through Stern on Grave Marker in-line drop targets not resetting properly.
At the very least do not play one game without all the cliffy protectors applied, as I kept putting it on the back burner due to being out of town.
My HULK has zero protection, tons more games, and zero issues, so I think 2016 is a bad year to buy NIB. I dumped my GBLE and GBPREM, thinking I would avoid any issues by going MET, well that didn't work.

Quoted from schudel5:

For some reason I would have bet it was Korn...not sure how I would have thought otherwise.

Quoted from Bwilson:

Thanks!

Quoted from valgalder:

I shopped around to a few distributers here locally, but Trent / TILT offered the best price. Sucks that now it seems Stern isn't allowing distros to sell below MSRP? Guess that will be my first / last NIB purchase with prices these days.
Haven't noticed any insert ghosting issues so far on mine.