Great news:
you can all save around $1500 (?) by buying a Premium instead!
It's pretty much the same game.
I'm not interested in Metallica, but am glad to see there's such a high demand for another NIB Stern title. Best case scenario is they continue to sell out and are short for every new title. (Assuming that Premiums are available)
Wondering how many suppliers are stuck with Blue Avengers currently.

Of course, in the future, Stern should make the new pin announcement, give everyone like 2 weeks to get a deposit of whatever ($500?) into their suppliers, and then start producing that many Limited Editions. After that deadline, tough luck.
100% fill rate for all prebooks.

I'm guessing that if you were suing Stern in a court of law (or your distributor) cause you didn't get your NIB pin, and you weren't laughed out of court already...
Everyone would laugh at you for trying to build an argument that any time you actually wasted getting to that point was actually worth something.
Seriously guys. It's a pinball machine that you tried to prebook about a week ago.
F'n grow up already.

Ever hear of Nintendo, Sega, or Sony?
They shorted pre books all the time to build hype.
In this case, sounds like Stern underestimated the demand.
You really think they don't want to sell each one of you an LE version?

PLEASE!
Just one of you call a lawyer tomorrow and ask them to take this case.
Let me know how that goes for ya.

Pretty sure you're 100% wrong on this one.
Which company just made a bucketload of cash from selling out of it's prebooks, with demand FAR outweighing supply?
Ok, both. But Sterns the company that will deliver and move on in the near future.

Seriously. Stern makes a bunch of LEs and sells out so fast, people are shaking their heads, wondering what happened. Even better: Sounds like maybe half the buyers are new pinball owners!
Just a guess here, but given the addictive nature of owning pinball machines, and how they tend to multiply in your home, you think Stern will make even MORE sales from these new customers in the future?

Sterns laughing. All the way to the bank. Good on em. Reward for sticking through the tough times in years gone by when everyone else had deserted the pinball industry.