No doubt we will see new listings with new prices (using old stock inventory purchased at the old prices) in the coming days.
Given the next game(s) they have to buy to replace that stock will cost them more, that is not unusual retailer practice.
+1 a concept a lot of people do not or refuse to understand
I understand it perfectly, but it doesn't mean I have to simply shrug my shoulders and accept it. Not when there are viable alternative solutions available.
Australia has always been the golden goose for any NIB pinball sales regardless of the company - whether it be Stern/AMD or BW/LAI. They pay big dollars to the parent to secure an exclusive sole distributorship and will defend vigorously (and litigously) any attempt to try and PUBLICLY bypass this well entrenched monopoly.
Fortunately the High Court says otherwise as LAI found out the hard way - (Avel Pty Ltd v Multicoin).
Bally/Williams when pressed at the time for a definitive answer to their credit said it is a local matter and not for them to enforce.
So what do we have as a result, half baked attempts at distributor protection with circuit board hacks under the pretense of ROHS compliance.
There will eventually be a solution to SPIKE (if it does turn out to be a concern), just like we got a bypass to the previous system.
What happened to the guy who owned the golden goose and decided that one gold egg a day wasn't enough?
EDIT: +1 to swinks
