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Just fell victim to Stern QC

By DocRotCod

8 years ago


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#112 8 years ago
Quoted from inhomearcades:

So many new people that have zero knowledge of Bally Williams nib problems.

Bally/Williams were not targeting the home market. As long as the hopper was full, operators did not care about decals. If you ever look at some of HEP's restorations, B/W would just throw a decal over another decal from another machine and shipped it out.

Collectors are NOT operators. Different clientele. Operators just cared about ROI. Collectors never get a ROI, and will have a hard time trading their machines for another machine if it looks like crap. Depreciation is the bane of collectors and having incomplete artwork would definitely depreciate a pin.

#168 8 years ago
Quoted from inhomearcades:

Sterns target market is not collectors, their first and foremost target market is still operators.

Wrong, I have heard Gary's 3 legged stool speech enough times. He specifically says he is now targeting collectors. Making LE's are saying they are targeting collectors, the Pin they tried is saying they want a home market, and the selling of side rails, toppers and other collector items say they are targeting collectors. Heck, they even hired the guy from Topp's trading cards to help sell to the collector market.

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