In all honesty if Stern think they can price gouge indefinitely, then they'll get a rude surprise when production lines grind to a halt one by one. I've seen with companies like Bluescope etc shafting oz businesses with steel prices and then when the Chinese slowed, the reps were surprised when greeted with the ol' f@$k off, here's the door people like myself gave them. A lot of dollars went off shore with cheap shit steel purchases by my company.

Think you're smarter than your customers......um not a good idea.

When the bubble bursts, and it will, there will be a lot of sucking up to be made. If that's too late to make a difference, then its bye bye. Quite frankly it doesn't worry me if Stern go, as it won't make any difference to the hobby and if it did its only pinball.....makes no diff in my life, I'll find something else.