St Joseph, MI
Quoted from Pin_Fandango:Greed is bad, it will probably kill their business as the prices will continue to rise and more people are priced out.
So many people are buying their games that no one can get one anymore. 
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Quoted from Rcarpen22:So how long do these typically stay in production? Are there any currently “in production” titles that are about to go out of production altogether?
There is no standard length of production. It depends on many things including demand for the game, parts availability, sales of other games in production, the terms of whatever licenses are involved, and more recently pandemic conditions. Doesn't seem like it would happen in current conditions, but they have brought back games that were out of production with minor changes as "vault editions".
So, in summary, who knows?
3 months later
Quoted from Sorokyl:I assume most people here are not paying taxes on pinball machines. Most dealers, like most small businesses, are not going to be collecting and passing sales tax for 50 states. So the consumer buys from out of state and "forgets" to report consumer use tax when they do their taxes.
You have that quite incorrect, sir.
We are all dutifully reporting and paying the required State remittances.
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3 months later
Quoted from PanzerKraken:A dealer is just someone approved to resale a product, they might get some stock from stern or from another distributor.
Distributors buy larger volume and sometimes are suppliers direct to businesses and other dealers.
Typically to consumer the two are essentially the same really, you buy what they got in stock, many will stick to close to retail, some don't but it varies.
Thank you. I still don't get why Stern lists them separately on their website, since there isn't (apparently) a difference to end consumers. It seems to create confusion when folks find one list on Stern's website and have no clue that the other list exists. Most people are just looking for a list of companies approved to sell them a game.
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Quoted from 1963BSARGS:The only reasons I can fathom as to why they would build more are (a) contractual minimum to be built, or (b) too many parts left.
(c) People will buy it.
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4 months later
So Stern really can't win.
Folks are either complaing that not enough games are being produced and wait times are long, or complaining that too many games are being produced and values are going down.
At least it seems that way.
I'm just glad to see more games being built. They are going to build what they think will sell. 
3 months later
Quoted from mbl1116:Let's see if Haggis knows
Ouch.
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