Quoted from PINBALL-LUST:Ive been there twice. I bought a pin there. I made payments on it until I got it. When I did, it was trashed, filthy black inside, and PF worn down to the wood.. It looked like it had been rode very very hard and put away very very wet. It took me 2 months to clean up that pin. T.C. is an honest nice guy, but the pins were trashed when I went this summer. And none of the games listed by anyone here were there late this summer, so turnover is insane. It's a dirty pin recycling center..Cheap to get in, but the pins were all trashed, dirty, broken, and worn out. It's just not a place for picky collectors...just everyday people that walk in to play pinball casually for the first time in 20 years and a place to squeeze every quarter out of every frail and dying wood fiber...you know..just like all the arcade owners of the 80s and 90s.
He had a few nice ones when I was there last (AFM and MET come to mind), but T.C. is a schoolteacher, and just has a passion for the hobby ( definitely not doing it for the $$$)....all the machines had a price on the back, and would just say look it over well before you buy, so no surprises for anyone.....
In a great area of downtown, and I'm sure just under capitalized to route killer titles w a full time tech....I appreciate what he is trying to do....wish I had more time to interact...
Shakopee, MN
