Quoted from CrazyLevi:Can we get some real, actual noobs up in here with horror stories about how terribly they've been treated by all the hardened vets around here?
When I was a noob, I was lucky enough to have been directed to someone that was just making a living off of pins, but wasn’t ripping people off. I bought my first 3 machines from him over the first few months. He didn’t rip me off, and he took the time to teach me how machines worked. He was the person that showed me how to take the glass out of a game. He introduced me to other pinheads in the community, who then introduced me to the larger community in the area.
Have I met assholes along the way? Yup. Have I had people try to rip me off? Of course. However, I’ve met some of my closest friends through pinball. Really good people who I love to hang out with and call friends. Relationships that go way beyond this crazy hobby we share.
Oh sorry. You were asking for noob horror stories, and here I go giving you the fairy tale of how wonderful this hobby and the people in it have been to me. My only real horror story in this hobby was that I owned a Judge Dredd for two weeks...