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SAM-I-AM: Stern SAM System
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 18 min listen
Let's chat about the Stern SAM system era from 2006 through 2014.World Poker Tour through The Walking Dead and everything in between.Want to import games? Prepare yourself to negotiate when the time...
Highlights
- Spooky Pinball has built 300+ units by the time game #225 shipped to Canada, with 25% temporary tariffs currently applied
- Dark Escape arcade cabinet was too large for small trailer; would have required disassembly into 2-foot sections
- Gatlinburg Pinball Museum auction had seller refuse approximately two-thirds of bids despite multiple winning bids placed
- Fresh Pinball importing games from Italy through Memphis FedEx hub and Jamaica, New York customs ports
- Some import shipments (Alice in Wonderland, recent Hexa/ABBA games) cleared customs without tariff assessment despite 25% tariff environment
- ABBA Voyager edition priced at $13,000+ with 300-unit production limit
- Hexa Space Hunt was held in customs/quarantine for approximately two weeks before clearing
Notable quotes
“I would honestly wait if I was him. I would wait, but then I also gave him the option of like we can have it shipped into a shipping terminal in Buffalo and then he can come across and pick it up. And then when he takes it across the border, he then is responsible for declaring what it is. He can just handle that. That's a fucking box back there.”
“It's just a matter of figuring it out. The most challenging part is I think that they just don't – they're not going to call and tell you that they're waiting on something. It's just going to sit there until you reach out.”
“So only this environmental game is the only game that we end up winning. Which was still a good deal or whatever. But it was just like, oh.”
“I think they're backwards. I think his goats should... he says, oh, yeah, I got fainting goats over there. But they don't faint for strangers. They only faint for people that they know.”
“So I would speculate they probably built 300-plus at this point, but the number-wise, if you're going strictly, that's where they're at.”
Entities
- Hexa Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- ABBA Voyager Edition· game
- Alice in Wonderland· game
- Dark Escape· game
- Space Hunt· game
- Fresh Pinball· organization
- Gatlinburg Pinball Museum· organization
- Pinball Junk Drawer· organization
- Timber Beast· organization
- Corbin Angeli· person
- Jeff· person
- Kyle· person
- Stefan Karakis· person
- Zach Angeli· person
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