That CE in Montpelier has the butter cabinet (direct print / clear coated finish) which is a $1K upgrade. So the 9200 price tag shudnt be compared to the regular cab games. Just fyi.

Good luck with the hunt. I’ve been enjoying my HWN CE.

I paid $425 for shipping back in May, so that is probably not far off. I noticed that one looked close to you. a 2hr road trip for a pin is nothing haha. I once drove to Wisconsin for a game (as you can tell i’m not one to ship games other than NIB).

Butter cabinets are apparently very nice, though i have never seen one in person myself to provide any first hand experience.

This i do have first hand experience in. He is not lying.

Buying out someone’s preorder spot can be good too. Thats how i got my Alice. Spooky is good with transferring ownership once they are given the green light (if through a distro its often the same, but check they arent adding a “convenience fee”). The advantage here is you can choose yr own option (only butter or standard cab for options on the CE, it comes loaded). The bigger advantage is instead of paying 500 to ship to someone else’s house you canpay to have it shipped to yours. Spooky is nearing the end of the CE runs so it shudnt be too long of a wait if you choose this way.

In most cases. Everyone gets assigned a game / build number early on. Like i knew i was 584 in May 2021. However Spooky will work with you and if i said i wasn’t ready for mine yet i could ask and have my game moved to the back of the CE builds. But my number won’t change. So perhaps another thing to confirm with the spot seller. This is not a common occurrence i wouldn’t think.

Another thing is the overseas games that get built and shipped in a container. Those numbers are probably all over the place but what do i know haha.

What will happen is you agree to a price with someone. You will send them funds however you agree. They will contact Spooky (or the distro they purchased through) and tell them they sold their Spot #X and give them your details. You’ll hear from Spooky or whatever distributor directly after that. So make sure you vet out who you are buying from and you can do this by checking out pinsider’s feedback / forum history etc. just like you would do if you bought a game. 99% on here are good people. But there is that 1% you want to watch out for . You may even be able to contact Squirrel aka Morgen Emery to confirm that [seller] in fact owns that spot.