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Stern: Cost to make a machine

By newpinbin

8 years ago


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    #53 8 years ago

    How dare they actually make a profit selling games..........who cares what they are making. Don't like their price? Don't buy the damn game.

    #55 8 years ago

    That's true Levi, but no company in their right mind is going to divulge their gross profit margin or dist cost in a public forum.

    #57 8 years ago
    Quoted from Trekkie1978:

    In my field, when I want a piece of equipment, I can only deal with my local distributor. If I go out of the area, no distributor will sell to me. These are rules that Wirtgen, CAT, John Deere, Komatsu, etc. come up with.
    I understand Stern not wanting their distributors openly competing with one another.

    That's pretty common in many industries, they don't want the distributors cannibalizing off of one another. The big thing people need to realize is they (Stern) build machines with not a lot of excess inventory sitting out there. It's a different animal than what it used to be.

    #68 8 years ago
    Quoted from CrazyLevi:

    I agree. No reason to think Stern would ever share this info.
    I always think it's funny when people come here to brag about some great deal they got, not realizing when they try to sell the game in 6 months everybody will hold that against them.

    Yes indeed, how dare they make a dollar off of a game when the market demands a higher price point?

    #71 8 years ago
    Quoted from Jasontaps:

    Yes, but this is pinball. Basically toys.
    No matter which manufacturer, I would be selling pins at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Costco (like The Pin was) or wherever else I could get exposure.

    Sure, if you want to over saturate the market and drive Stern's profits in the toilet, go ahead and sell to wal-mart........

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