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Manhattan, IL
Games that are beat to hell and unplayable in the wild. The excitement of finding one unexpectedly than the total let down of it being a POS.
London, ON
Trying to fix a minor problem and screwing thing up and making new and even worse problems.
Prices! Prices!
Opposite-- believing a huge or difficult fix is needed, getting a great suggestion from Pinside and getting an issue fixed quickly!
Quoted from Jaybird815:Games that are beat to hell and unplayable in the wild. The excitement of finding one unexpectedly than the total let down of it being a POS.
LOL, happened to me just today. Found a brand new location I had never been and a very rare game I had never played before and I get all excited. I pay for three games and soon realize that the right flipper rubber has broken off and is laying in the inlane, the left flipper has a bad tendency to "stick" in the up position, and there is no sound or music from the machine whatsoever. I truly wish more operators would take pride in their machines which are out there for the public to play. I know there are great operators out there, but unfortunately there are far too many which expect people to pay money for essentially nothing. It's not that big of a deal to me personally because I know of other places to find good games and I can just avoid that machine in the future. However, what does bother me is knowing there are tons of first-time players whose only experience with a pinball machine turns out to be a bad experience, so they don't ever want to try it again.
Sydney, Oz
Quoted from oldskool1969:people that make you wear gloves to play !
You're kidding, right?
Quoted from WesleyCowan:Trying to fix a minor problem and screwing thing up and making new and even worse problems.
The story of my life.
And...playing a machine with burned out, dim or flickering bulbs.
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that even the beat up pinball machines are priced to expensive, its nearly impossible to buy a nice project because people want big bucks for them an don't understand how much money it will take to get it up an running an looking good again, knowing that your going to run at a loss, which is ok for the love of it , but not all the time, so another pin sits in a dusty shed never to played or seen again..
People that are too rough on the machine. There is nudging and then there is beating up someone elses machine. I saw a guy get pissed and pick up the front of the machine 2 inches off the floor and drop it in frustration. I was appauled, but everyone around acted like it was normal tournament behavior. It pissed me off and it wasnt even my machine. Respect man, its only pinball.
Quoted from o-din:The bitching and the moaning.
Were you playing pinball with my wife???? 
Quoted from ryanwanger:Moving them.
A thousand time yes!
Half-coded games. And the manufacturers that believe the practice is acceptable. Might as well ship a game with the ramps and flippers missing.
Moving them, lower level SS or DMD games priced way too expensive, project games priced way too expensive as Whisper said above, etc. I think we all have the same issues. I wonder if my health insurance covers "pinball therapy"? It would be great if we could just weed out all the scammers in this hobby and take their games, procure all the lost machines in basements, garages and sheds, and redistribute them to the decent people in the hobby. Then we could all just sell/trade amongst each other when we wanted something fresh to play.
Quoted from davewtf:greed.jpg
That could have two meanings. It could be "greed". Or it could be when people replace bulbs with non-matching colors / temperatures. I'm assuming its the bulb one and that drives me nuts too. 
Quoted from pintechev:That broken part that nobody has in stock or is unavailable.
Unobtainium
Incorrect screws. Drives me nuts tearing apart a game and finding all the BS hardware that the previous owners used because they didn't have the correct parts.
My biggest preve is buying a pin and discovering/believing a part or item is missing. I mean engineered missing, not just removed by a previous owner. An example is my Maverick. Near the flippers, the lane g.i. On both sides there is one bulb and then space for another bulb. There is even holes in the plastic lane for the bulb and a circle on the playfield for the location of it, just no hole was drilled. Drives me crazy evry time I look at it. I have other examples too but you get what I am saying I hope.
I guess Stern is not the only company that did/does cost cutting. Data East/Sega did it too.
Pins that are egregiously misrepresented by sellers. I accept the fact that a twenty or thirty year-old pin is going to have imperfections, not all of which are noted (and some of which might take me months to discover once I get the pin), but deliberate deception is another matter entirely.
That we no longer live in the golden age of pinball
A time where there was 3 arcades in town
A time where there there was three main manufactures, each bring out a new game every two months
And games were 5 balls for 20c
Pinside is great, but it's also the worst.
The whinning, the crying, the toppers, the diaper rubbers, the clown puking, the nonsense arguments, the non tilters, the "not on my machiners"... almost all of that is only here. 
Quoted from TheLaw:Pinside is great, but it's also the worst.
The whinning, the crying, the toppers, the diaper rubbers, the clown puking, the nonsense arguments, the non tilters, the "not on my machiners"... almost all of that is only here.
What do you have against toppers? I think some of them are pretty cool looking.
Quoted from kst8cat:What do you have against toppers? I think some of them are pretty cool looking.
Yeah, c'mon! Nothing wrong with a great topper! 
Quoted from Warbound:I mean engineered missing, not just removed by a previous owner. An example is my Maverick. Near the flippers, the lane g.i. On both sides there is one bulb and then space for another bulb. There is even holes in the plastic lane for the bulb and a circle on the playfield for the location of it, just no hole was drilled.
This happens on games. IJ is missing one GI bulb.
Too many bulbs for the circuit, so they are left out so they don't blow fuses and burn up connectors.
Might not be to save money.
LTG : )™
Quoted from PinB:Yeah, c'mon! Nothing wrong with a great topper!
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