Quoted from Mattyk:I’m surprised that many of you are required to pay a $1,000 deposit on preorder.
In the old days when distributors had stock stern would tell them we’re going to do MET. Your distributor who didn’t have MET would call you and you would pay the $1000 deposit they had to pay to get it run. When Stern was ready to ship to you you’d pay the remaining $3900 and get the game
If your distributor ordered 100 they would get them. Now with allocations and distributors not knowing when the game will arrive or how many , some are not requiring the $1000 but they must be paying a deposit still unless stern has changed. With the market so tight they don’t seem to be concerned cause it will sell.
I switched back to my first distributor because I only needed to put down $100 on a couple games I didn’t know would be run this year. But my $1000 distributor is rock solid so we will see if it works out