Ghost Busters - 2016 - would you get it

[swinks]

Maybe try a transport company - it may well be very close to the cost of you hiring a ute.

For example, i just looked up northline, and they quote around $130 for Sydney to Newcastle.  I have a Paragon booked with them to come from Melbourne, and when i rang, the very good price i got quoted was door to door.  Obviously can't say if they are good or not, since my machine is not available at the moment to be picked up.

I did ask AMD and their preferred transport company only goes to depot in Newcastle so then still need to hire a vehicle so is actually more expensive.

I will contact Wally that does the Melbourne to Brisbane run 1-2 a month - see if the stars align and he deliveries to your door and carry into your house. Last pinball was delivered at 3am in the morning lol

[robm]

I wouldn't bother with their preferred transport...after all, it is your machine!

3am is good if you have soundproofing to not wake the kids...can have a few quick games before heading off to work!

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[pinball god]

Maybe try a transport company - it may well be very close to the cost of you hiring a ute.

For example, i just looked up northline, and they quote around $130 for Sydney to Newcastle.  I have a Paragon booked with them to come from Melbourne, and when i rang, the very good price i got quoted was door to door.  Obviously can't say if they are good or not, since my machine is not available at the moment to be picked up.

I did ask AMD and their preferred transport company only goes to depot in Newcastle so then still need to hire a vehicle so is actually more expensive.

I will contact Wally that does the Melbourne to Brisbane run 1-2 a month - see if the stars align and he deliveries to your door and carry into your house. Last pinball was delivered at 3am in the morning lol

you haven't seen swinsky's house. Dunno how happy he'd be going up the steps??

[swinks]

Maybe try a transport company - it may well be very close to the cost of you hiring a ute.

For example, i just looked up northline, and they quote around $130 for Sydney to Newcastle.  I have a Paragon booked with them to come from Melbourne, and when i rang, the very good price i got quoted was door to door.  Obviously can't say if they are good or not, since my machine is not available at the moment to be picked up.

I did ask AMD and their preferred transport company only goes to depot in Newcastle so then still need to hire a vehicle so is actually more expensive.

I will contact Wally that does the Melbourne to Brisbane run 1-2 a month - see if the stars align and he deliveries to your door and carry into your house. Last pinball was delivered at 3am in the morning lol

you haven't seen swinsky's house. Dunno how happy he'd be going up the steps??

lol, my collar bone is rooted so have lined up a local removalist for a case of beer to carry up but ideally Wally and his buddy would be prefect 

[pinsanity]

Sounds like the best solution. Rather than wasting your time trying to negotiate with a business who won't accommodate to a simple request you simply find a circumvent.

Well done. 

[Brunswick Brawler]

Note that the deadflip streaming is with a LE, so we now get to see the Magna slings in action.

The date translates to Thursday morning Australian time, hopefully they will have transferred to you tube by our Thursday evening.

[swinks]

I asked the question to AMD about delivery, which seems a little odd?:

"We airfreighted a “Pro” for showroom use only and it arrived last Thursday p.m.

The container is now due here end June(slight delay from factory)."

so no GB pin until end of June - 2 months time, what a let down from early to mid May, but seems like there are some issues:
- slimmer not registering all hits, can see a need for a design upgrade on this personally - have some ideas for a simple upgrade
- bent wireform on the rhs captive ball stopping the ball dropping down
- insert mis-spelling

[Retropin]

I asked the question to AMD about delivery, which seems a little odd?:

"We airfreighted a “Pro” for showroom use only and it arrived last Thursday p.m.

The container is now due here end June(slight delay from factory)."

so no GB pin until end of June - 2 months time, what a let down from early to mid May, but seems like there are some issues:
- slimmer not registering all hits, can see a need for a design upgrade on this personally - have some ideas for a simple upgrade
- bent wireform on the rhs captive ball stopping the ball dropping down
- insert mis-spelling

Stern having realised the market for user interactive pinball is a potential growth area introduce the FIB..

Fix In the Box

[delarge]

I asked the question to AMD about delivery, which seems a little odd?:

"We airfreighted a “Pro” for showroom use only and it arrived last Thursday p.m.

The container is now due here end June(slight delay from factory)."

so no GB pin until end of June - 2 months time, what a let down from early to mid May, but seems like there are some issues:
- slimmer not registering all hits, can see a need for a design upgrade on this personally - have some ideas for a simple upgrade
- bent wireform on the rhs captive ball stopping the ball dropping down
- insert mis-spelling

Yeah, they're now shipping Pros with LEs. Maybe less than usual Pro orders on this title?

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[Caveoftreasures]

Pro orders of GB in Australia are a all time high, excluding ACDC.

Also, everytime I have bought a BNIB machine from AMD it has been delivered to my front door by TNT.
Surely TNT can do a delivery to Newcastle.

[swinks]

Pro orders of GB in Australia are a all time high, excluding ACDC.

Also, everytime I have bought a BNIB machine from AMD it has been delivered to my front door by TNT.
Surely TNT can do a delivery to Newcastle.

well Bruce's email did state problems at Stern end so whether that is the playfields or just a general supply or even if the sales are down a little and it is a combo of pro's and le's

as for freight apparently they can't offer to my door where to Gold Coast might be in a big truck and then to a depot to a smaller tail light truck to people's door, and he said he would prefer if I picked up personally so not sure.. is what it is.

plus I reckon with the recent price increases sales would of dropped off a bit

[pinball god]

I've always thought mid July for the LE.

[Caveoftreasures]

From what I am hearing out of the USA, Stern was already maxed out with orders on all its production lines with a massive amount of orders on GOT, Spider-Man Vault, Star Trek & Walking Dead & still KISS variants, then the release of GB just pushed the waiting times thru the roof because Stern are the busiest production wise since they were when ACDC went thru the roof. Unlike the old days, Stern can now easily process orders for much lower production runs so if they get a order for 20 Walking Dead Pros for example, they can do the run easily. They don't have to wait for the orders to hit 100 or more to get it on the line.

Effectively, titles will be available much longer to purchase compared to a few years back & longer where once you missed the initial or 2nd line run, you just missed out on that NIB title.

So even with the new factory & new processes & new staff numbers, they just are flat out keeping up with demand which is great for sales.

Then there will be another title announced & Stern will be busier again.
Gary Stern must be happy seeing his long life dream flourishing.

A lot of GB have been ordered for Australia. The LE sold out so fast & the Premier & Pro have been ordered in high numbers so that's great for AMD & our great hobby.
GB seemed to hit at a perfect time for those who had money & weren't pulling the trigger on a GOT or switched quickly to GB.

[GORGAR 1]

^^ That's great news Brett for Stern and the hobby :) how the hell do buyers wait 4 years for Crazy Jack games?  I saw WWE still being built to :)

[pinsanity]

I asked the question to AMD about delivery, which seems a little odd?:

"We airfreighted a “Pro” for showroom use only and it arrived last Thursday p.m.

The container is now due here end June(slight delay from factory)."

so no GB pin until end of June - 2 months time, what a let down from early to mid May, but seems like there are some issues:
- slimmer not registering all hits, can see a need for a design upgrade on this personally - have some ideas for a simple upgrade
- bent wireform on the rhs captive ball stopping the ball dropping down
- insert mis-spelling

Yeah, they're now shipping Pros with LEs. Maybe less than usual Pro orders on this title?

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well Bruce's email did state problems at Stern end so whether that is the playfields or just a general supply or even if the sales are down a little and it is a combo of pro's and le's

plus I reckon with the recent price increases sales would of dropped off a bit

That sounds the more likely scenario and accurate based on info and reading between the lines from the source itself, rather than internet chatter.

Of course, being in sales, you never openly admit to sales being down from projected. The message you send to every potential customer is that it is always a matter of not being able to keep up with demand to create a sense of urgency.

You would think with this apparent sudden surge in demand Stern would add a second shift instead of their standard M-F 8-4? That's what every other manufacturer does when demand apparently spikes. And with their primarily casual labour force it would be cost effective to implement.