Is the distributorship model for pinball outdated?

By JodyG

5 years ago

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#80 5 years ago

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Real distros (as opposed to hobby, garage, club distros), are needed because ops still like to walk in with cash and drive out with a trailer full of coinop.

If you were required to buy directly from Stern, ops would have a paper trail, and they don't want that.

#81 5 years ago

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Quoted from LTG:
As more and more home owners buy games and have no skills or desires to work on games. Distributors might have to evolve.

Stern did this with The Pin to test how a 2 year in-home warranty would actually play out.

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