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Arcade Collecting => Pinball => Topic started by: RayB on August 17, 2011, 03:44:55 pm

Title: Stern pins via Best Buy
Post by: RayB on August 17, 2011, 03:44:55 pm: Now selling via Best Buy (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olstemplatemapper.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=3345769110134775777&id=pcat17071&type=page&ks=960&st=pinball&sc=Global&cp=1&sp=-currentprice+skuid&qp=&list=n&usc=All+Categories&nrp=15&iht=n)
Title: Re: Stern pins via Best Buy
Post by: ChadTower on August 17, 2011, 03:50:19 pm: I hear if you buy the $125 Monster power cable your scores go way up.
Title: Re: Stern pins via Best Buy
Post by: HaRuMaN on August 17, 2011, 04:01:37 pm: Quote from: ChadTower on August 17, 2011, 03:50:19 pm

I hear if you buy the $125 Monster power cable your scores go way up.

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Title: Re: Stern pins via Best Buy
Post by: Vigo on August 17, 2011, 05:05:29 pm: To be honest, that is exactly the crowd to sell to. One of the biggest BB demographics - People who don't care what price they pay for the newest toys and those that can be easily buffaloed into buying the most expensive things. Just slap on a sign that says:

Features: Hi-Definition motion sensing 3D playfield, digital ambiophonic sound and multidirectional ergonomic command system. Lights that flash. A Ramp.

Was $15,950.00, our low price: $5,999.99. Our low price gurantee will price match the offer of any other local retail store. We challenge you to shop around.
Title: Re: Stern pins via Best Buy
Post by: MaineEvent on August 17, 2011, 07:38:31 pm: "Also features a magnet for random ball play."

Awesome! No more going to the bar for random ball play.
Title: Re: Stern pins via Best Buy
Post by: ChadTower on August 18, 2011, 07:35:55 am: Quote from: pinballjim on August 17, 2011, 05:37:49 pm
They're not actually selling them in the store, so this doesn't accomplish anything.

Yep. Didn't work for Sears either.
Title: Re: Stern pins via Best Buy
Post by: Malenko on August 24, 2011, 10:48:21 am: love it, buy 1 real (stripped down pin) for $6K or get like 15 classic tables for your 360/PS3/Wii for like 20 bucks
Title: Re: Stern pins via Best Buy
Post by: TOK on August 24, 2011, 11:37:01 am: Quote from: Malenko on August 24, 2011, 10:48:21 am
love it, buy 1 real (stripped down pin) for $6K or get like 15 classic tables for your 360/PS3/Wii for like 20 bucks

Having both real pins and Pin2k for the Xbox, I can tell you that your comparison is like eating steak vs. eating a picture of steak.

Edit to add... I also have Williams Pinball Classics, in case thats what you were referring to. Nice for checking out and learning the rulesets of "real" games but as an owner to two of the actual pins in the game, there is absolutely no comparison to playing the real thing.

I say this as someone who still wants to build a digital pinball to fill in gaps, but there is just no way any of the video stuff comes close to having an actual pin.
Title: Re: Stern pins via Best Buy
Post by: Malenko on September 02, 2011, 09:09:48 am: I was pointing out the irony of them being listed on the same page.

I know nothing is quite the same as having the real thing, but your comparison is a little off. Its more like wanting a Ferrari and driving a honda. A Ferrari is way awesomer but a honda is cheaper and more likey to get purchased by the masses =)

That being said I'm still working on getting my first pin but money has been tighter than a virgin's butthole. Owning a house is expensive.
Title: Re: Stern pins via Best Buy
Post by: ChadTower on September 02, 2011, 09:57:14 am: Wait! Are you telling us that one thing is not the same as something else that is in fact a different thing? What the hell?!

Sesame Street was right. One of these things might not actually be like the other.