I've mentioned this in the past, but I don't have a problem with Steve wanting to stay in the 80's as far as ordering things. If he doesn't want more business, totally fine, that's up to him, I'll just spend more at other places that make me do less work.

What I do find to be somewhat irritating is the fact that none of the Gottlieb manuals are available online. So you have a business that demands part numbers but doesn't give you access to the manuals, then yells at you when you don't have the part numbers, lol.

I must have the worst luck then with PBR, as I'm not sure if I've ever had an order screwed up by PBL or Marco despite 10x more orders to them than PBR. PBR has screwed up three of my orders (out of maybe 6 or 7)? Not major things, but things that made me have to have things reshipped or reordered.

I think it depends on what you're shopping for. It's hard to beat PBL prices on a lot of the common DMD era parts like flipper rebuild kits...those alone are ~$10 cheaper at PBL then Marco or PBR. PBL just doesn't carry a lot of EM or early solid state parts like PBR does, so if that's what you need you're somewhat limited in choices.

I haven't noticed any problems with the PBL flipper kits, however, I'm not routing games either nor am I super picky. For a home user like me, there's no way I'd ever play enough games to have any issues or notice.