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Why I Bailed on Stern Pinball

By freakandgeek

4 years ago


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    #21 4 years ago

    I for one am completely glad that you have 'bailed on Stern', and hope that anyone else that is buying machines as an investment is going to follow your advice, and stop doing it.

    It is people like you who drive up the cost of machines in the second-hand market for their own profit, refusing to accept that a game you bought new a few years ago and played to death would depreciate in value - who'd have thought? When enough people believe this BS you start seeing games for sale at more than NIB prices because the owner has had a clown puke some garish LEDs over them of zip-tie on some plastic toy to 'add value' to the machine

    Who'd have thought that a business (for that is what Stern is) would see a huge demand for a product that they have made, still have the capability to make, and decide to manufacture and sell them? How dare they impact on your ability to profit from their machine.

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    #28 4 years ago
    Quoted from freakandgeek:

    The point was Stern (and Jersey Jack too) are fucking collectors for their own greed. The only company treating us with actual respect and doing things the right way currently is Spooky. Spooky says they will make X machines and they stick to it.

    If you could point me to where Stern said they would make x amount of Iron Man, Spiderman, Star Wars, etc. which they reneged on by doing a vault or comic art I'd be interested to see that.

    JJP have been more of at 'fault' with this by releasing numerous LE editions of Woz, but you didn't title your thread 'Why I Bailed on JJP Pinball', you instead lumped on Stern - citing the fact that the machines YOU bought (having seen other machines rise in value) had not in fact gone up in value.

    I repeat, it is just sour grapes that you have lost perceived profit, and the less people try passing off second hand machines at NIB or higher prices the better.

    #77 4 years ago
    Quoted from freakandgeek:

    I wanted to mention that but I was afraid of being accused of piling on and being a hater. The 90s games play much much better. It’s not even a contest.

    He's saying the EXACT opposite of you - that he prefers the way Sterns play.

    #83 4 years ago
    Quoted from freakandgeek:

    My point was that we re-running games five years down the road is something new and kills the collectibility of your machine. This is a relatively new phenomenon...every popular game is going to get rerun.

    But that is exactly the point everyone, but you, is trying to make - that they have never intended to be collectables.

    'kills the collectibility' [sic] is depressing that a) you see it that way, and b) you are hardly buying them to collect if, as you say, you make a profit on every machine you sell , barring Sterns.

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