Quoted from Tophervette:How old are you? Junior High? NIB should be quality control tested, but I guess that is not what happens. And is allowed to happen! So you experienced NIB owners just live the fact that pinballs need maintenance immediately for something that costs the price of a used car ($8-12,000).
Then I read that the upper playfield is shredding metal that the ball carries around the game stripping the clear off the playfield. And that is just accepted too. Just clean more often?
Unbelievable. Newbie at 67 and been playing since 1972. LoL......
Well, my brand new Jeep Wrangler’s doors leaked during the rain since day one of ownership, and it’s “working as intended” according to Jeep. And I had a new Toyota arrive with scratches on the door. Those vehicles cost quite a bit more than a pinball machine
So, this feels like you may be trolling, but in case you’re a gnome and not a troll, no one has mentioned metal shredding from the upper playfield. Sounds like a bit of hogwash without specifics, as it’s not even clear where that metal would come from.
Other than that, freaking out over a cheap, easy to replace switch is a tad over the top. It’s like finding out you had a bad fuse in a car and replacing it with a good one. These things can operate fine for a few days, including during Q&A, and then suddenly die.
If you want to gripe about NIB standards, it’d be better if the Q&A process included some time to ensure the ball guides are directing balls to where they should. Dialing in shots by bending and aligning guides takes far more time than replacing the occasional bad switch.