How many bitch threads do we need here regarding pricing? EVERYTHING IS MORE EXPENSIVE NOW... Stern would be crazy stupid from a business perspective not to price each version of a game at the maximum it thinks it can get. Don't like it? Don't buy it.

Jeff

It’s one of the seven deadly sins, but Ok.

“Reverse racism” is a very curious (and telling) expression.

In 2012 my AVLE was $6,700 shipped.

The only thing worse than a $6700 pro is buying a $12,400 LE paid in full and competing with some others who aren't even fans & want it to flip it. Do the features on the game justify double? Is their twice the amount of wood? Do yourself a favor an buy the Pro, it's the smart move. Very happy about it!

Same here, couldn’t justify the extra 2k+ for the clock and extra vuk on the premium. Art on pro better and I’m sure a mod maker will have a clock made up in no time.

Absolutely! Really looking forward to the Pro.. Best new so far this year!

Godzilla pro is 6800 right? This is a pass for me, I already owned Aerosmith once.

Stern easily could've sprung for the Geddy & Alex to sign the game at that cost. Premium's don't have expression lighting either this time. Love the art on the Pro and just feel it's the right choice. Tired of getting ripped off. Who knows? Maybe it's Stern's business model now to let everyone who is paying for the LE's help to offset their costs on the Pro. Thanks everyone! LOL

$3,895 shipped for my TSPP in 2005. I don't have what I paid for Monopoly in 2001 but probably around $3,400 I think.

So just to get this straight...we are complaining that the Pro is too good this time around?

It's so hard to keep track sometimes.

Really hope the “Stern should be charging more” comments don’t come next ..

With all these pinball prices rising so much and so fast I might be a millionaire and not even now it. I love it maybe I can retire early.

lol if you don't like the price don't buy it, nobody cares about your money problems.

Not saying they should raise prices but if LE’s sold out immediately prices unfortunately have not topped out yet.

We are our own worst enemy

No such thing as reverse racism. Racism is racism plain and simple.

Definitely don't see the crazy demand this time around like there was for godzilla..I don't believe these le's will b selling much more if any above msrp...

No more talk about the LE. Let's see the gameplay on the Pro and no looking back! Excited!!

Too much for too little. I’m out.

I'm looking to buy a second pinball after getting LZ Pre for family for Christmas...

This price mentioned by OP seems more than fair. Everything is that price at a minimum if you can even find it.

The worst time to just be getting into pinball due to scarcity. ='(

Am I missing something here?
The LE’s were gone immediately, Stern Insider LE allotment gone immediately, we already are seeing some non authorized retailers advertising them North of 15k and many pinsiders who are claiming they missed out on a LE are begging for a lead or transfer of spot. Demand for the LE is absolutely inline with any other recent machine. Just my observation

If you want a new release game in the next year, you pretty much have to buy an LE now. Unless you are an operator...then you get to go to the front of the line. Yes, some people do get lucky and score one from the first batch...but its becoming more and more rare.

Didn't the op want like 15K for his UBER rArE Stern NBA because it had koBe Beef on the translite? Should be able to buy a couple of NIB Pros now OP!

Sounds more like you are twisting his words around. Sometimes the pro is better value than the premium and vice versa. Sometimes it's up to the purchaser to decide which is better and I believe 80sMan is just stating which one he prefers. It doesn't always have to be drama filled.

i bough an LE NIB for retail in october; impeccable timing if i do say so myself

Stern announces price increase months ago to give ample warning to pinheads. Price increase due to overall market fluctuation, supply shortages, parts/materials cost increases, labor shortages, etc.

don is not ok with this.

However, don is ok with with capitalizing on someone's death to overprice a machine for his own personal profit...

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/for-sale-nba-1

Keep on keepin on I guess....

It is highly amusing watching these prices rise beyond affordability.

The biggest price police also tend to be the biggest offenders. Takes one to know one I guess...

Funny thing about the "exhorbitant" Kobe death price from 2 years ago...it would probably sell in 5 minutes without the death hype today. How times change!

How many LEs were there? I haven’t kept up with this title at all.

1000. Doesn't feel like it with how fast they sold out, though.

Agreed. I was already out at NIB prices years ago when they were about $1k less than current, so I might as well get some entertainment out of this!

$6600 for a pro picked up is what I pay.

Last February 2021 that same game was $5650.

I don’t care who you are, that’s a punt to the nuts.

If Stern can charge more money and sell less games but still hit the same revenue well they'd be stupid not to. That's how business works.

LOL and you are the guy whining about relatively inexpensive $7K pinball machines. You obviously couldn't afford to live in my gigantic NYC floor thru.

Another price police cheapskate who thinks his shit don't stink.

Funny how you are still stuck with that shitty NBA despite your pathetic "dead Kobe" sales pitch, while I had no trouble moving that $20K Monster Bash that you were crying about, Don.

L.O.L.

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You'd fit right in here mr. Hop! We got room for more

Mr. Nayman is down in Atlanta right now visiting family, but I'm happy to say that Stern Pros are still the single best value in pinball machines, and the still the cheapest, whether for home or commercial use.

So why pick on them? It really ain't that bad!

Prices are up among the entire industry.

Oh FFS... No one is forcing anyone to buy anything so stop with this "milking us" BS. This is VERY simple, if you can't afford it or don't want to buy it because of it's cost then DON'T BUY IT. If you find that to be not fair or a little cold, deal with it. No one is entitled to anything regardless of whether you think you are. Stern is not required, and neither is any other manufacturer for that matter, to make what people perceive to be "affordable" games. They are a business, and so long as people are buying these machines faster than they can be built things are only going to get more and more expensive. Will there be a limit? Absolutely, especially at the volume they're producing at currently. What is that limit? No freaking clue and any attempt to forecast that is just a waste of time.

Personally I'm amazed at how strong the pinball market is, I thought for sure once people started going back to work the market would cool off but the exact opposite seems to have happened... Does this mean we're in a bubble? Sure, but that bubble could end up being relatively small. What I feel pretty confident in is we're nowhere near the price ceiling that would actually impact demand and so while that's the case, companies are going to keep churning out machines as fast as they can while the iron is hot. That's exactly what they should be doing. Look at the benefits, we've gotten some outstanding pins/themes in the last few years that may never have been built had the market not went nuclear. As for me, my on the way Spooky Halloween CE will probably be the last NIB game I pick up for a long time due to their current cost but I'm a sucker for certain themes so who knows...

Jeff

HAHAHAHA BTFO Levi. Everyone knows you're a location player simp with no access to your own games

No, because of the prices seen on Pinside and other sites. A Stranger Things Premium is listed on here for $11,500. Any Stern model is commonly seen for $1-5K price over purchase and people are still buying. Look in the mirror. There lies the problem.

#MeToo

And the used market follows. Seeing JMs approaching and hitting $5K just makes me a lil more happy than last year about this time... : ).