I know it's common-place to want to exaggerate on Pinside, but trust me when I say none of us paid anything close to $6000. In fact, it wasn't even that close to $5000 and that includes shipping.
All three of our games are working fantastically. It appears that whoever was assembling our games the day of our production had a bad code stick that they were using that created various seemingly major issues that all came down to code. Still having random issues with the demon spitting the ball straight down the middle, but it sounds like there are workarounds for that and I am looking forward to trying it out.
I would not hesitate to buy the game based on our experience as it appears to be a complete anomaly. The game is lightning fast, has fantastic artwork and the sound is ridiculous compared to the old system. Buy with confidence and enjoy the game!