I'd be out on this game now if it wasn't for the fact I'd already got one at the lower price and was almost out on it when the EU hiked the price by 25%, fortunately by shipping later I missed out having to pay that price.

I simply won't pay more than £10,000 for a pinball machine. Here in the UK with Stern the local distributer adds a huge amount to the price compare to the US and a Stern LE is close to that mark.

First - if anyone thinks that a $1000 price increase is to just cover costs you are in the twilight zone. This is a well executed (and I dare say planned from the start price hike, car manufacturers with hot models have done the same). Get more orders than you can cope with, say you are doing your best, generate demand for the old price and keeping people on board by creating a new price the has no demand therefore locking in existing buyers and increasing satisfaction by saying you are doing them a favour! The guy who runs the company now is no idiot!

If you aren't in you are out dood.

No not really, its got some assets, the ones from the "trailer" but its worse than Ghostbusters for repetitiveness and its made with stolen money and IP. The game itself has super uninspiring shots. We have had an original in our club for past couple of years it's not a hugely played game, it was to start with but not any more.

We have a similar situation in the UK which is a small market;

I ordered a GNR LE at the old price, at the new price I'm out, not because I can't afford it but purely because I just do not see the value in a pinball machine thats more than 10K, same as I don't see value in a mobile phone more than 1K or a car more than 100K (although the latter never use to be the case ). In Europe the feedback I'm getting is that NIB sales have slowed significantly driven by the EU tariff and I would expect JJP to have lost orders as in the EU you can't have non-refundable deposits.

Neil.

indeed as JJP aren't going to catchup until past the next stern and cgc release so that lock in super valuable.