I'm with you, if we adhered to some of the comments in here such as "they should be aware of and prepared ahead of time etc." we would never have any new people join the pinball ranks and the industry would die out! I'm not saying just jump in willy nilly but damn I don't find fault with someone expecting to get a fully operational machine NIB considering what they pay for one. Pinball ownership is something you have to experience and learn on the job so to speak or that's how it was for me, I own and love system80 pins which most avoid due to their conception they are extremely hard to work on and it's where I started.

Would you??? Someone new comes on ask one question or tells a short story of his "first" experience and he gets flamed right out of the box......fabulous how do you do from such a welcoming community..................make anyone feel warm and welcome right.

Glad someone took the blinders off