Gas is 4 bucks a gallon, it cost almost 400 a month to heat my house in the winter. The average wage has gone down in the last 10 years instead of up, and complain about the price of pinball!!
Get your priorities in order.
Pinball machines are luxury items like restored hot rods, and corvettes.
If the pins are too expensive for you, you are buying the wrong ones (there are plenty for less than a grand) maybe you should spend the money on your kids college fund.
Just my opinion in this open fourm