I (apparently now) have had a fully built and ready to ship Big Lebowski #59 that I paid $8,500 for in 2014 sitting in a manufacturing plant in Holland since last October.
Will I ever pre-order another pinball machine after this experience? Hmmmmm. Not likely.
Call me an optimist (among other things perhaps), but I am confident that this pre-order will still work out yet.
And FWIW: I blame o-din and CrazyLevi for this whole debacle as, just like drug pushers, their Pinside posts got me "high" on pre-ordering at the time. And also just because.