That deaf, dumb and blind kid must of had one hell of a rabbits foot.

No your not a jerk.

Introducing folks to pinball helps the hobby. But once it becomes the cool new thing to own. Then a wave of trend followers who sometimes have little/no interest in helping the hobby and more of a "look at me" FB post (like, click, subscribe) mentality slide in and make my otherwise hated Gottlieb SYS 3, 80b and project pins 3 times the price they should be and were less than 10 years ago.

I'm jokingly bitter about the good ol' days of collecting after roughly 10 years. I can't imagine what folks who have been collecting for 30 years feel like. Vids are going up but at what I would consider a relatively reasonable rate. FS ads on pins have been laughable for sometime now. Doesn't stop me from searching for the deals though!