Great post!
Last NIB purchase METLE. Stern gets $0 of my money until they finish their previous games. I canceled my ST LE order because of this issue.
This hobby must be growing at a fast pace with new collectors entering the market, because Stern has burned a lot of bridges with their previous client base of LE and Premium buyers.
A popular national retailer has a slogan, "Expect more, Pay less". Somehow Gary got their slogan backward in his current business model.