How come Ministry of Pinball has so many Williams parts you can't buy in the States? I'm spending a lot of money with them and paying a bunch in shipping for stuff that seems like should be available from vendors in the States. Is it licensing? Someone is seriously missing out on tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per year not producing and selling parts for popular 90s Williams games in the U.S.

Fish Tales speaker panel plexi was what prompted my most recent order. BSD prototype slingshot plastics was another one, as well as the BSD optical sensor board and a few other things when I was restoring it.

I disagree, if I'm spending a few thousand a year on parts from Europe that could be made and sold in America, I figure someone is missing out on 500K+ a year in sales. But hey, if the Williams license owners don't care about making money, their loss! Ministry of Pinball will take our dollars.

I guess everyone in US, the Europe and Australia have the same complaint! Maybe it's because shipping has gotten so expensive in the past 10 years. I'd hoped with all the private companies competing against each other and USPS that it would have kept the prices low, but the opposite seems to have happened.