Quoted from CrazyLevi:So many fucking lowlives in this hobby....
I have been doing the pinball thing for several years now, and I still don't understand why this is the case. Maybe there are a lot more pinball people than I think who are trying to "serve two masters" by combining a hobby with a career, and they inevitably end up feeling pressure from the career side which ultimately prompts the scammy behavior? I don't know...
I do know that I have participated for much longer in R/C, astronomy, and music/audio hobbies, and the quantity of despicable people I have encountered and/or known about in those circles is almost nil in comparison.