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Success!!!!
Spooky:
Awesome! Give all the customers free toppers.
Jjp:
Lets milk the suckers another 1000dollar.
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Quoted from EricHadley:Pretty soon prices will be so high they wont sell enough to cover the cost to design the game. There is a certain level of sales needed to recoup the development costs and it seems like with the already small number of sales per title that soon prices will drive so many way they just won’t sell enough to break even.
Good point.
the higher the price => the more exclusive, the more exclusive, the less units to cover for development costs => Even higher prices.
Quoted from Sako-TRG:JJP increasing the price a good financial decision?
Not sure about that one. Only time will tell as the orders may take a nose dive.
Supply could go up, whilst demand comes down...... going forward.
Depends i guess. If they arent interested in selling more units, wanting to move on, i guess it´s a good strategy.
the worst part about pumping prices in the middle of a sell, is that you make all further customers/potential customer feel like loosers.
Quoted from Yelobird:Last I checked employees and bills are paid with Revenue not unit counts.
If you have development cost X.
If you make few units, that has to carry development cost, you have to have a higher part of the price beeing development.
If you make lots and lots of units, the development cost gets less for each unit.
It´s really strange having to explain this on a forum, where people can afford to buy toys for 10k$.
I think it just shows, you can make lots of money, without knowing anything about production.
Quoted from highdef:The U.S. Fed is downplaying inflation, but everyone on this site can feel that the threat is real in one way or another no matter where they live. We are seeing it with food, housing, and raw materials. It shouldn't be a surprise that it can also impact a hobby like pinball.
The inflation in the western world is brutal, and sallary are so far from tracking in, it's insame.
Here in sweden, when i started internship 17yrs ago, i had 34k a month, meanwhile the lunch cost 34sek.
Nowdays, the new interns get 41k and lunch costs 95sek.
If you were a normal worker 1970 eg. Teacher and negotiated getting paid monthly in gold, you would today earn 8-10 times more, then you do in money.
Young people can work hard all their lives, never getting debth-free.
It's sickening.
Quoted from Bingovit:Yeah here I was hoping if the 25% punitive tax would disappear in the next few months, I would be able to buy a GnR LE!
Now if the 25% falls away, I still have a price increase of about 10% over the original price
Out here too.same plan btw.
Honestly, the game seems in comparishion to be worth it, but the circumstances going in, not having the same deal, makes one feel like cheated on, which is not for me.
For me it's easier to muster 10.5 if im not at the same time, know i made a deal that's worse then other got.
To bad, since there are probably not many games around europe, due to the tax, so the chance of picking one up later is close to zero.
Quoted from Bud:I’ve owned and operated 8 JJP pins I bought NIB. JJP tech/warranty support is second to none. JJP has been the cheapest pin to maintain for me and they have had the best resale value as a whole. I will say JJPs can be finicky at times but usually ironed out.
With the exception of the light board issues, I don’t know of any major issues that the expense fell on the owners.
Cheap to maintain?
I just ordered two pop-up plastic heads(hobbit) cant possibly have cost more than 2$ to make.
What do you think they cost?
Cheap to maintain my ass....
Quoted from LTG:Did you consider the LE's that were ordered before the cost increase that aren't built yet. Will cost more to build than those already built ? Yet JJP is holding the price on those games.
People buying later will pay more. Because the game will cost more to build.
Lloyd
What's this with supply costs more now?
I frequently buy electronics, led, acrylic, polycarbonate from china.
My suppliers are more eager to sell then ever and discounts and offers are aboundant to get the wheels moving.
Well, maybe jjp has shitty suppliers?
Also this the more copies and the longer you build a product the more expensive it will be?
Is it because spreading development cost on more units?
Higher prices when you order more copies?
Or is it perhaps it gets harder and harder for the assembly line to put together the machine, due to memory loss?
Plz explain why that is? I call bull.
Quoted from LTG:Read through the posts in this thread. There are posts reporting increases with companies they deal with or work for.
Maybe inflation ? Maybe with what is going on in the world with COVID. Which has effect much of the world, besides people.
I havent seen a single factual post on this. What item, items has increased meriting a price increase of 1k?
With such amounts it should be easy to say.
As said earlier....
Spooky get a smash hit, and thus give free toppers to customers.
Jjp bumps the price 10%.
For pinballs sake, lets hope jjp never gets another hit.
1 week later
If anybody is even contemplating jjp overpricing. They should have a look into the spare part situation.
I just ordered a worg head to a hobbit game. It's an uggly one inch plastic bit, that couldnt possibly cost more then 70cent to make.
Cost?
80$ shipped.
I shit you not. Totally beyond insanely overpriced.
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