First and foremost, WOW 7yrs on Pinside and this is your first post, congrats and thanks for joining us! You should interact more often! Set a profile pic, update your collection!
Now for the survey. I share the sentiment with others above me. Your survey could use a lot of tweaking, but since it’s for marketing I guess it’s geared towards the primary market, not the hobbyist/private sales side of things.
I’ve only bought from other pinsiders or Craigslist.
Also what’s unfortunate is it seems to focus on essentially the market that we’ve seen for the past decade. And doesn’t bother accounting for the way things use to be in the 80’s when innovation was wild!
My favorite and most important thing in pinball is the novelty. I want a major Fun Factor that comes from the unique and unusual. Games like the hybrid Baby Pac-Man, the wild 3D Orbitor 1, the oddity of cocktail tables, or even simply interesting mechanisms on the more standard tables like my recent pickup of Monday Night Football and the ramp with field goal that pops up in the middle of the playfield.
I have bought utter stinkers that are really hated among pinballers because of how peculiar they are.
That’s basically the modus operandi of my collecting.
Ann Arbor, MI
Charlottetown, PE
