I bought 4 NIB in 2 years 2012-14
XMLE
Tron pro
STLE
IMVE
that's $24K in 2 years time, but the LAST pin I bought from Stern was IMVE over 2 years ago.
Since then CQ or lack of code or price increases (or de-content for the same price) has led me to buying re-sale games.
Have bought 6 other Stern games but not from Stern directly, have been re-sale pins after the code was finished AcDc, Met, TWD or older pins like Tspp, SM, Lotr which were already finished code.
I'll say being in on ST and XM with poor code was really the breaking point. I would have bought SMVE if the price was a bit lower.