When droping between 6 on $10,000 on each new stern you have to be excited. No matter how good are bad it is. (nobody wants to admit they pissed 10 k on that new machine and it really sucks.) For whatever reason 1st grade art work,unfinished code or just bad theme gone off the rails. There seem to be a few types of people in pinball. Most people are a B and C type blended which is good.

A The ones that buy every new machine and over pay just to be able say look at me i just bought ... 1 to 5 years later they dump it because it's not the new thing and they don't really play the game anyway.

B The people who actually play the machines and can afford to sink 6 to 10k every so often on a new toy for the room while trading other machines for the next holy grail machine.

C The ones who have yet to find/don't live under or near the money tree. So we buy the beater/project machines get them fixed. End up keeping them because we have too much in them and just enjoy the game with it's flaws. Sometimes sell them to the fund the next project. Because you have 2 or more projects in the pipeline awaiting the repair/restore process.