The Spooky guys I've met at multiple shows are good people. The support they provide is outstanding. I'm not sure they were trying to be a dick to you with that answer. Buy a CE and sell your spot in the marketplace. Plenty of folks have done it. Good luck.

You are almost at the finish line. The BSE's should start rolling out in the next couple months. I am in about the same boat as you. I didn't like the gold trim on the CE and I can't fit toppers, so I opted for the BSE thinking I'd be somewhere in the middle of the pack. But whether by market demand or design, 90%+ of the pre orders ended up being for CE's. Of course, this put my order at the very back of the line and I was locked in. The good news is that by the time I get my game, the code may actually resemble something most new pins would ship with. The code was extremely rough for a while there. If you still want the game, I would personally stick with the BSE after waiting all this time. All of these games are taking a hit, so no point in taking a hit on both an SE and now a BSE too just to buy a second hand CE if it's not really what you want.

Do you know who you were speaking to or what the person looked like? This doesn't sound typical of any of our people!

I think they are still kind of on schedule aren't they?
But yeah buying a machine when you don't know when it will built can be frustrating. It's also on you.

Well let me be the newest person to laugh in your face. GOOD LUCK WITH ALLLLL THAT!

I kid.

hmmm that bugs me...can't figure out who that would be.....

No way I believe a Spooky employee was laughing at your purchase choice.

Well laughing can be perceived more than one way.

I wasn't at the first MGC, but I'm sorry if anything one of our staff members said came across as rude. I really doubt it was intentional or directed at your decision to purchase a SE or BSE. The vast majority of the games sold were CEs, so that package is certainly taking up the majority of the build window. We build our higher end models first so, the larger order of CEs means a longer wait for those that ordered a SE and BSE. That said, we are still on pace to exceed our goal of an 18-month build window. We should be wrapping up CEs soon and the BSEs will be on the line next.