Quoted from TigerLaw:

Many of the marked up games are not being sold by distros as distros, they are being sold by them as private individuals. This also happened with Metallica LE and a few others. Just because one distributor sold a game publicly at MSRP doesn’t mean they didn’t privately sell a couple more at high prices...
Frankly, I’d way rather see the distributors making this money (which is the market rate) than a flipper. The distributors do tons of great stuff for the community and get stuck with duds periodically (WWE, for example). Let them thrive now.

Quoted from Kkoss24:

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Quoted from swampfire:

How you feel about this probably depends on what you think it’ll do to Pro and Premium prices. So far they’ve had a fairly linear price progression. But if you start seeing $9k pros in a few years, remember this thread.

Quoted from Grandnational007:

In regards to location play making a major comeback because of the price increases of new machines disenfranchising home use buyers, do you see non-pinhead people willing to pay $5/play on location? $4? $3? Because I don't.
It's hard enough to get people to pay $1/play or $2/3. Generally speaking, the public is still locked on $.50/play, as they have no clue as to the price of equipment these days.
But I absolutely agree with your statement that we may very well soon see the the current golden age of pinball slow its meteoric rise (as compared to itself...it's still extremely niche) in the near future as inflation rears its ugly head.

Quoted from Saltimbanco:

Also, if anyone would care to help me see the light, my distro is supposed to be the only guy I can deal with, it's a territory thing in Canada. Anyway, the only few times I wrote my rep, I did receive some fast, very polite replies. But that's it! I was never followed up with, never received instructions for the next step in buying a game.
As if I would email a car dealership and ask to buy the upcoming model sight unseen, and the guys at the dealer would reply they'd get back to me, but actually never would.. I mean, that has never happened to me outside of the pinball world!