So with Stern raising prices with Godzilla, but telling their distributors it is due to supply and shipping challenges, do folks think this will drop back down once those issues resolve? American Pinball labelled theirs a surcharge in theory to remove it in the future.
Thoughts?
good topic.
Although, a really good move by Stern would be to announce Venom with GZ pricing MINUS $500 per model and say they are concerned about their customers since prices have skyrocketed lately. While that would be total hog wash, it would play out well and they’d probably sell extra units. It puts a bigger gap between their $9k prem and JJP’s $12k LE.
Prices never go down. I don't think they will go back down once those issues are resolved. Once they know people will pay whatever they set the price too, no sense going back.
Excellent question, Dennis. As the old adage goes, ”Prices rise like a lion and fall like a lamb.“ I would be absolutely shocked if any pinball manufacturer ever lowered prices in the future, particularly as long as the market stays hot. Now if the economy goes into recession then all bets are off. Though I think that manufacturers might go the way of specials or sales to stimulate demand rather than lower MSRPs in the event that happened, along the lines of what automakers have traditionally done with new cars.