Quoted from LTG:I didn't lose financially.
The hobby took a big financial loss. Money that could have gone to Spooky, Jersey Jack, and Stern.
And a lot of people work hard to help others. Keep their games going. Make pinball more enjoyable for them.
This soured a lot of people. Made pinball something less. Some may have even left pinball for other things to do.
We all were effected. We all lost something.
LTG : (
Well said Lloyd, I couldn't have said it better. And I will add, widespread, rampant greed is what is really killing the industry as a whole. First on the part of the manufacturers (or would-be manufacturers) that heard about games trading in the used market for 5 figures and a lot of them thought "I'd like a piece of that lucrative pie!". And in the same vein, us end buyers so willing to fork over huge deposits to people that have absolutely not earned that trust, all in quest that we might end up with something in the end that nobody else (or very few others) have because of our willingness to bargain on these hacks.
I realize the days of NIB games being sold for $3200 and actually ready to ship when they are announced is an old-fashioned idea. But we really do need to get back to something reasonable for this industry to survive. At least for the people that I know, I'm not personally friends with a lot of folks buying $15k Batman games...
