Well I actually found one in Calgary in a pretty good shape and $800 less the Vendor one.
Picked it up on Monday. Damn those are heavy things, think my neighbour got a hernia carrying into my basement. Had to take all the doors off there hinges to fit it through, thankfully the girlfriend was at work.
Set it up and it seems to play fine, has a few tiny little cracks just starting to appear in the upper playfield and the obligitory switch and scoop damage on the fruit machine section (I ordered uprated switches). I will fix the scoop when the switches come. It also says the trough proximity switchis defective, I haven't looked at it yet so not sure what is wrong with it. Girlfriend and me played it for a coupl eof hours last night, she likes it (not as much as LOTR) and I'm very happy with it.