Quoted from Guinnesstime:This isn't "honoring." LEGALLY they have to. You can't set a price, have a party send a deposit to reserve it, then raise the final price. It's not honorable. It's the law.
Listen this increase is to gouge the non-pinheads. Pinheads have already pre-ordered. New people was have ZERO clue that this was arbitrarily raised for them.
Is it crappy? Yes. Is $1K an arbitrary increase? Of course. But it largely will make your $9500 game more valuable, until the market gets flooded with GNR LEs.
But didn't Stern do this exact thing?