A price increase from Stern and the Australian dollar is the unfortunate reason.
I understand that prices may be negotiable on everything Pro except WWE.
Negotiating on shaker motors being incl is also up your sleeve.

I am going to work out what I can get a Pro from a USA dealer, add 20 percent to cover our exchange rate then add $500 for import duties n taxes n shipping to Australia to see what the difference might be compared to our Aust pricing on a Pro.
It seems the Aust dollar was too good for too long.
Not sure if this will stop me from buying BNIB Sterns or not but it's making think very heavily about it ! And I am the biggest Stern fan in Australia so it's not going to be well received by 99 percent of Stern buyers.....

Will do some math and do another post shortly...