I think you can only get mad at those people buying them out of the gate and selling them when they get them or even before they get them if you have a horse in the race. By that I mean if you can afford to buy one, want one, or are planning on buying one, then yeah it sucks that those people are jacking up the prices. I would love to buy a GB but I can't afford the price of the Pro let alone the LE, so I don't buy one. Hell, I wish I had enough money to buy a couple LE's and sell them for profit down the road....maybe it could help pay for half or more of a Pro, then I could get one, but when I brought it up to the wife, she said no way and that she's not risking that much money out there to "maybe" make some in the end.....she's a smart woman and I am smart for listening to her so that didn't happen.

All this buying/selling etc isn't affecting me anyway because I realized years ago that the pinball hobby has gotten too expensive for me so I consider myself lucky that I got into it back in 2000 when pins were priced more reasonably and the average blue collar worker could afford them. Not so much anymore. 6,7,8K for a pinball machine blows my mind and the amount of people paying that amount blows my mind even more! If I was Stern, I'd read every one of these posts and keep raising the prices more and more until the ceiling was found where I could get max dollar/profit for each game.....do I like the cost of games now....HELL no, but I don't blame them for getting every dime they can! I know I would! I just sit back and watch it all go down and just shake my head in amazement.

Brian