Quoted from 27dnast:Obviously JJP wasn’t prepared for the order onslaught that occurred and I have zero knowledge of how many CE’s were over sold, nor do I know what kind of capacity they have in-house individually call customers. Typically dealers/distributors are in place to be an outreach arm to deal direct with the consumer.
I don’t think JJP is nefarious, nor do I think they had an internal meeting pre-sales and plotted to screw over distributors. For all we know, they plan on giving distributors full access to CE’s on the next go around... or perhaps they are actively planning on how to assign. Allotments to distributors (which they haven’t done, nor have they needed to do).
I suspect that most everyone upset about the price increase is really just disappointed in the elevated prices across the board. We all long fir the good old days. But, just like collectors raise and lower prices on the used market, JJP should do the same on the new. They’re a manufacturer, not a charity.
Vote with your wallet. If the market agrees, en mass, then you’ll either see pricing drop or that manufacturer will fold. It’s one or the other. If the market disagrees with you, then you’ll have to re-evaluate your position or stick to your guns.
I agree with all your posts on this topic, btw. Kind of odd how much life this thread has.
Could you imagine if the pinball distributors did what car dealers do? (when a car is hot?). The dealer bribe to get a 2021 Corvette is $10,000-$20,000 over MSRP across the country! You can get a dealer to sell you one at MSRP, but you will wait for over a year.
So at least we have something to be thankful for...for now, at least
The real trick for these pinball manufacturers is to get better at building these games so they can truly scale up. Chevy built 20k Corvettes in the year of COVID, half the number they planned to build. 20k is still a very large number.
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