$9500 for a stern premium!?!?! . GTFO

HUO market will come back down eventually once more and more games are in the market.

The LE can sell out all it wants. Don’t care about an LE and it’s limited value. LEs are for guys that want to feel special. To jack the premiums and pros up this much is a giant FU to the people that keep this hobby going. There are far more “regular” people working hard to maybe get a new game now and then vs rich guys that buy every game that comes out. Think about your group of local pinball friends and how many are regular joes that aren’t rich enough to just buy a game without having to sell something.

Premium and pros are for the majority of hobbyists and operators to buy. Both stern and jjp have basically said FU to the majority of its lifeblood customers. Charge what you want for your stern LE and jjp CE, but don’t gouge your main customers because of a tight overpriced secondary market caused from a pandemic shutdown killing the supply chain, and forcing the huo prices up due to lack of nib supply.

Except the games sitting in distributor warehouses were already sold from stern, and are now owned by distributors. Who is stern to think they can dictate a new price on games they don’t own? So now some distributor that is already sitting on over priced inventory has to Jack he price way up again?

If stern s concerned about competing against distributors old inventory, how about stern stops price gouging its customers and keep these things at reasonable prices? I don’t want to hear the cost of the bom has gone up that much either. We all know it cost them a few thousand dollars per game to make at most. The cost of materials isn’t that much. This is a greed move on a community that will unfortunately allow the limits to get pushed. If spooky and cgc can manufacture just as packed games(Scooby even more packed) for less, then so can stern and jjp