There is a fellow pinsider here in iowa that I know he is not rich and works very hard for a well-known company making probably an average salary. He got into pinball just off of curiousity and started working on pinballs in his spare time out of his garage late at night. Now he turns the pinballs around and flips them after he gets done working on them for a nice profit. He uses that money to buy other pins that he wants in his collection. So, it can be done. He has a family of 4 or 5 and is not wealthy. But, with hard work and understanding about pinball machine it can done. You can have a lineup of the top ten games. It just takes time and patience. You also need to know how to work on pinball machines. The most important part is knowing how to work on the pinball machines and not be afraid to learn how to work on them is by far the most important part. So, money has nothing to do with it really. It's true.