Chicago, IL
On Amazon says this?? I thought it was for sale on the 9th? Now is not available?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009AVLBS0/ref=amb_link_365659382_3
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Quoted from Wolfmarsh:I would honestly be surprised if they sold more than a handful of these, if that.
It might be a rarity & now worth that ridicules price tag…
Can the Stern marketing dept. suck any more than already do?Probably not.The bar just keeps getting lower and lower........ 
Amazon is very strict about product availability. My firm does a bunch of work for companies who sell on Amazon and if things aren't lining up, they tend to pull products. This listing could be down for a number of reasons.
Utrecht
I think that is why most of us were upset about the whole idea of this thing, that they put their resources into creating something that all of us knew no market existed for (at that price point).
Leicester
Maybe retheme for Avengers art?
Maybe going under a non-Stern name to save face?
Zizzle protecting their market share bought them all up?
I agree with (gearheaddropping), my guess is that Stern wasn't ready to inventory, or couldn't work out a deal on logistics (for shipping), or they flat out changed their minds when nobody pre-ordered.
If it truly sold out, it would say unvailable, not "sign up when this item becomes available".
I toured the factory about 4 days after this was announced. A sales VP very enthusiastically explained to me all of the talking points for this machine and why it was a great idea. They were not on the factory floor. I couldn't be sure from the conversation that Stern was going to actually make them in Chicago.
I assume this machine is primarily aimed at people who catalog shop saying "Now that's cute" and proceed to order three thousand dollar items.
It makes sense to me that no one in a pinball collector community would be interested. I'm certainly not.
Quoted from DCFAN:Maybe they sold out, LOL.
Yep. The one they used for the picture.
3 weeks later
I know it seemed like a stupid idea to most of us, but you have to give Stern credit for trying.
Gary does have a point, we have to get the younger generation intrested in pinball or pinball is going to die after our generation. 
I have to concede $3k for a NIB anything seems like a good deal in light of the sky rocketing prices of everything else.
It's only a matter of time before lower valued games get their prices pushed up as well as people who don't want to shell out $7-8k start looking for games in the $3-$5k range.
Quoted from ronlisa:Gary does have a point, we have to get the younger generation intrested in pinball or pinball is going to die after our generation.
I don't see how 'the pin' will attract any younger generation that a normal pinball machine won't. No innovation or new gimmicks. Just a stripped down 'true' machine made with cheaper materials.
Quoted from frolic:I have to concede $3k for a NIB anything seems like a good deal in light of the sky rocketing prices of everything else.
It's only a matter of time before lower valued games get their prices pushed up as well as people who don't want to shell out $7-8k start looking for games in the $3-$5k range.
Its already happening! Look at the 2013 price guide or WCS94 sales or even the Popeye I purchased for 1600 the trend is up. Its hard to find quality pin machines under 2k anymore and thats the truth.
the games on ps3 and 360 attract plenty of younger players. Its just a matter of if they want to seek out the real deal after playing the digital versions.
Quoted from VegasAlleycat:Amazon now lists it as only 9 left in stock and more on the way...perhaps they are selling a few?
Maybe they started with an inventory of 10?
anyone notice the spinning cube is the SAME one in Avengers? Who said it wasn't using parts from real pin 
Quoted from Gexchange:I've Played it.. Its not bad at all! As I've said its geared for finding new pinball players not the collector world.
But is it 3k good? Would you steer a customer that couldn't afford a NIB reg pin to one of these?
Stern groups us into the COLLECTOR area to much. Most of us are players. Sure we purchase pins and therefore collect them, but most of us are not COLLECTORS in the sense we buy and put in a bubble to look at.
Quoted from AkumaZeto:Stern groups us into the COLLECTOR area to much. Most of us are players.
I'd agree with that. If pinball were more plentiful in the wild, like, arcades existed like the used to, I think most of us wouldn't be making our own arcades at home.
Quoted from TheLaw:The list price is clearly 4K on amazons site and the buy button has the 3k price price.
Yeah, the 4K price on Amazon's site is completely arbitrary. It doesn't mean anything. It could have been 5K or 3.5K. This was designed from day one to be a 3K machine. Right or wrong, that's the price Stern thought this would sell for.
The positive review looks REALLY fake. Kinda like the Android App reviews spoofed by the publishers of the apps.
One interesting thing is Stern can't delete unfavorable comments from Amazon.
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