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#1211 from Pinball Sales. Wonder if I'm good or if they're gone already.
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Quoted from Rarehero:#1211 from Pinball Sales. Wonder if I'm good or if they're gone already.
I'm barely in front of you. So, if you don't make it I'll sell you mine for the Automated price of $9500 
Quoted from Rarehero:#1211 from Pinball Sales. Wonder if I'm good or if they're gone already.
In the same boat. Probably time to step away from the computer and stop checking my order for Payment Confirmation so much...
Quoted from Frax::?Until I see that 1k out of my account, I'm nervous as crap, and I'm 1063.
That's more than 100 better than my number, you should be fine.
Edmonton, AB
Quoted from Rarehero:#1211 from Pinball Sales. Wonder if I'm good or if they're gone already.
Number 1072 here. Ordered at about 11:45 MST.
Quoted from Rarehero:#1211 from Pinball Sales. Wonder if I'm good or if they're gone already.
Arn't you at Expo? Couldn't you have reserved one there? Well, you can play mine, I'm order#1040
I think there will be enough to go around, but might sell out by end of day, who knows.
Quoted from copperpot:In the same boat. Probably time to step away from the computer and stop checking my order for Payment Confirmation so much...
Probably won't get sorted out until next week. I got an e-mail with the invoice, but it's not a confirmation. They may not even know their allocation yet. Rick is taking orders at the show. It's a big mess. Very much like the METLE débâcle in the making.
Quoted from Rarehero:#1211 from Pinball Sales. Wonder if I'm good or if they're gone already.
I wouldn't worry about. You can always buy one when they announce the AFM, CC, or MB. People will sell to buy those. And if you really want a NIB, I have a feeling they will be out there too. (and not at crazy prices) 
Quoted from Frax::?Until I see that 1k out of my account, I'm nervous as crap, and I'm 1063.
I don't think we're going to see actual charges until next week when the dust has settled.
Is the DMD on this a regular plasma DMD, or an LED one? No option to build with a ColorDMD from the factory? That would make a whole lot of sense.
All this ordering on such little information. I have lots of questions (after the fact here).
1. Are they going to use real silkscreened decals (not inkjet)? Will the sides be clear coated?
2. Are they going to use a real translite -- the original photo lithography technique (not one printed by inkjet)
3. If the leds are really on one big board, and that board is on the bottom of the field, will they be color changing? Will this part be easy to remove for cleaning black carbon? How about putting a gasket around it (assuming the LEDs don't get too hot) to keep the dust out.
4. Is that driver board really attached to the bottom of the field?!? How easy is that to service?
my friend and l got automated confirmations by e-mail- phone op said we were like 5 and 6 to call (in the first hour), sooo..looks good so far.
It looks like a couple hundred have sold through pinball sales. Maybe a couple hundred at the show in person? How many other distributors are selling them online?
Something tells me they aren't sold out yet, but probably will be by the end of the weekend...
Quoted from 2000_Alum:I am 1137, are you sure you have an "order confirmation"? In my e-mail confirmation it explicitly states: "Note that this is not an order confirmation. You will receive a detailed confirmation message once your order has been processed. You can check the status of your order by logging into your account at http://www.pinballsales.com/productcart/pc/custpref.asp".
I also called Jen and she said she will be sending out confirmations next week once everything is sorted and nothing is charged until then. Also she said shipping is targeted to begin 4/2014
Yes, yes....sorry for the confusion. I got the same e-mail as you noted above. My guess is that those of us that ordered within the last few hours will be fine. Ordering tomorrow......not so much.
Quoted from shanetastic:1225! Oh yeah!!!
I am 1245 and ordered 12 min after you..wow...and yes I know I might be too far down the list to get one, but lets hope thats wrong.
I wonder if they'll come with this on the LDB?
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Quoted from spfxted:I'm going to the movies and forget all about this stuff for a while...
+100
Quoted from digitalbytes:Was there any confirmation of a non LE version of this?
Only consideration if and when all the LE's were sold and if demand still was high.
If all 1000 sell out today then I guess they left at least 500K on the table because if people are this quick to pay $8,000 surely they wouldn't have balked at $8,500.
Quoted from Craig:Now I just have to decide what this does to my ST-LE order. Hmmm.....
Keep it!! I'm excited for both of these amazing titles!!! It's indeed a great year for Pinball!!!
Why so expensive? Are there color changing LEDs? New software? ColorDMD? I mean it is a good game, but it seems like it should be priced somewhere between a Stern Pro and Stern Premium. Not sure why it is priced the same as STLE or WoZ??
Quoted from John_I:Why so expensive? Are there color changing LEDs? New software? ColorDMD? I mean it is a good game, but it seems like it should be priced somewhere between a Stern Pro and Stern Premium. Not sure why it is priced the same as STLE or WoZ??
Because people are willing to pay that much, that's why.
Quoted from John_I:Not sure why it is priced the same as STLE or WoZ??
Demand. Pure and simple.
Just remember... $8K for a pin is too much money!
Oh wait...This isn't a Star Trek, Hobbit, WOZ, etc. thread.
Carry on.
Quoted from John_I:Why so expensive? Are there color changing LEDs? New software? ColorDMD? I mean it is a good game, but it seems like it should be priced somewhere between a Stern Pro and Stern Premium. Not sure why it is priced the same as STLE or WoZ??
Biggest deal was likely the re-engineering of the boards. This price point likely allows them to make back that investment. Such design work is now paid for regarding any further work they do.
Beyond that, it is priced there because people will pay it... why charge less?
Quoted from Pacer:Biggest deal was likely the re-engineering of the boards. This price point likely allows them to make back that investment. Such design work is now paid for regarding any further work they do.
If anything, the board redesign lowers their BOM significantly. The kind of SBC (single board computer) needed to run the likes of MM software these days is minimal cost. The NRE while non-zero probably wasn't too too bad. Certainly the NRE is more than made up for by the savings of using replacement WPC-95 style aftermarket stuff.
Quoted from spidey:Just got an e-mail saying to send in a check, but no amount is given. Anyone figure this out? I'm assuming 1k, but will post if I find out for sure
Yes, $1,000.
Anybody know what the daughterboard on the new hardware is? At first I thought it was a BeagleBone Black (http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black), which would go with the display being a fake DMD on LCD using the HDMI output, but that doesn't look quite right.
Quoted from Pacer:Biggest deal was likely the re-engineering of the boards. This price point likely allows them to make back that investment. Such design work is now paid for regarding any further work they do.
Beyond that, it is priced there because people will pay it... why charge less?
Re-engineering the boards was no big deal. Even if they didn't own the rights, all of the boards have been reverse engineered by hobbyists. That CPU in the picture probably costs $25 to have spun in China. I like Planetary Pinball, so good for them. Its just surprising people are willing to jump on such an inflated price. Hopefully they will make a few thousand of them and I can get one for $6000 on the tail end of the run! Actually I would much rather have a new AFM. I might go 7K on that if they can figure out how to put a colorDMD and color changing LEDs in.
If anyone is worried that is not gonna get one, don't. You will be able to buy a pre order in a few months for 5 or 10k
Quoted from Indypin:I wonder where all the MM bashers are now.
Ha! Ha! Cool! Ed
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