Sorry Cavey, but you're starting to sound like the Jennifer Hawkings of Stern. You're coming a little too strong and hitting the company line like an employee. You can't possibly like everything about Stern or do you?
A few points.
I said USA had 400 million people BUT the official estimate is apx 320 million. If we add in illegals, it probably hits 400 million.lol
, but as I said, it was a quick calculation from memory, I didnt search wikipedia. .......(and god forbid i said they had 1200 million people)
The std Stern pin is just under 300 pounds, about 140 kilograms apx without using a calculator. Add a 10 or 20 kg pallet and a few herniated disks from trying to lift the std heavy commercial Stern model etc, and u get the point versus the much lighter home pin model. The JJP is over 160 kgs boxed. Ouccchhh.
I do like everything about Stern for a few reasons.
First of all, I see things different to most, cause most people on here work for a wage/salary. The minority of people are self employed commission/performance only like I have been for 20 plus years. When u wake up everyday and you are a business owner you focus on positives, all day long, not negatives. You find reasons and ways to make things work, you dont sit at a desk and bag everything cause that mind set doesnt make money. I look at the positives Stern does, and hope they improve on that.
Some people just focus on negative stuff, all day everyday, but I find that like cancer. (and I have just had a operation to get rid of it so I know what i am talking about, it aint nice, nothing negative is that grows.lol) We can all bag everyone and everything everday, but without constructive suggestions and helpful advice, that critique is like cancer to a business owner. If you want to bag something or someone, I reckon add a varied way that the person or company could try instead. That then becomes constructive, but critique without positive feedback is just negativity to me or cancer to a business owner who cant afford to focus only on the negative. Sure, Stern are not perfect, but they are trying, and if you want your own pinball hobby to survive for your kids, you better support them or there wont be a new pinball industry left to talk n debate about.
It doesnt hurt to say good things about Stern, but it does hurt to knock them all the time, because newbies reading these posts (lurkers who read n never post) might be put off buying a new Stern if all they read is negative stuff.....and every sale lost, is perhaps a customer that never joins our great hobby/pinball playing n collecting...so whilst we are talking pinball amongst ourselves , remember many people we are trying to convert to pinball are watching n reading.
and remember, our 2nd hand pinballs today, were once brand new pinballs once....without Stern, where will the next decades 2nd hand pinballs come from........(except JJP which may or may not be commercially viable or alive in 5 or ten years).
Positive talk about Pinball can only help new pinball people join us......food for thought cause we are all on the same team.....team pinball promotion.
P.S = if u say something negative after this post, u should seek a therapist and tell them why mummy n daddy beat u as a child.lol (just kidding)
Can we have one week on AP where no one says anything negative, or are we just all bitter 40 year olds.lol
Pot shot away.......or say something positive, I dare you !! u might be surprised how good it makes u feel.
