Why? I seriously don't understand this kind of frustration. When you receive a NIB game, the very first thing you do is inspect it. I'm not talking about the superficial one before you sign the papers, I mean putting your hands on every single thing inside it. Every post, every ramp, every mech under the playfield, look over every switch, make sure the boards are still attached and all cables are stable after shipping.

Yes, I firmly believe that anything I find was probably put in the box that way. But Stern will never take the level of care and checks that I will when I get it. Plus I never know if it was the first playfield put together by "New guy". Anything "out of spec" gets corrected, the machine gets waxed, and then it is time to play. It's just part of pinball.

You could have stopped there. It will always apply.