seems so obvious.

I still do not understand the whole Stern LE thing since they offer a premium. Limited is nothing but a name with a $2500 up sell. I think the real suckers are anyone buying the LE model at all. You can double down on being a sucker if you are buying a LE for even more than the 8k they originally sold for!

6100 for prem

I know people that have paid 8500 for LE from distributor

just a rounding error, not exxagerations really

I have a pro, so no ideas on what the premiums are in reality. 6100 is what I was told from a friend that paid for his premium. He did order before the game was official so maybe that was pre bump?

I figured that was the standard price on Sterns

4500 pro (now 5k with the new pricing model?)
6100prem
8100Le (or in the case of the GB hype 8500 like some supposedly paid once distributors pushed up prices)

to me that makes sense.

Buy the LE on the secondary for a discount. The majority will drop dramatically. Some will go up.

IF it really is your dream theme then I can see shelling out for the LE. For example a Good friend really loves GB and has 2 young boys. He got in early on GBLE because he will never sell it and it is his first NIB experience. That makes sense, but he is buying with emotion and not with logic. Splurging on emotion is all good.

dont foget games like this are always in the mix with the LE hype
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/for-sale-x-men-le-stern-2012-2028

I think you missed the point... not every game is a winner for the LE speculation wa the point. WWE, Mustang, TWD, AV, XM

TronLE is the exception to the norm.

last TWDLE I saw was sold for 6500 and it was chock full of mods.

STLE sells under original all the time. WOZLE sells under original (unless you are considering people that paid 6500 and waiting 3 years?). GBLE, time will tell but I woudl not count that so soon.

more than 50% you are going to loose out on and that is how it SHOULD be. Heck, you should be losing out on all these and the real reality is that teh high end "le" market continues to drop. if anything GBLE willl just expedite it. High end pins are dropping in price more rapidly now than in the past few years. Give it a few more and the seondary will be so saturated that I expect many LEs to be selling at premium prices or less.