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Pinrepair website switches to pay site!
Ken Layton:
Just discovered that the pinball repair website, pinrepair.com has switched to pay format. The indexes are still free, but if you click on any of the parts, you are directed to login/password now. No advance notice was posted.
smartbomb2084:
Although this news is somewhat disheartening, it only costs $10 for a CD-ROM of the entire guide. Supposedly it is a charity fund raiser for the Pacific Pinball Museum. Is the place hurting that bad?
I know I have ALREADY got my 10 bucks worth of info from the site as have many others I'm sure.
Donkbaca:
Sweet! So they are selling other people's stuff? Love it!
CheffoJeffo:
Feeling much better about printing the stuff that I have already printed from Clay's site.
Although, I don't mind paying for good info ... I paid Randy Fromm and it was worth it ... lack of warning and lack of info on Clay's site is disturbing.
bleargh:
WOW. Just, wow.
Although I could agree that the content contained within is worth $10, this puts a total damper on my late night reading on the iPad before heading to bed, as well as killing any way of bringing that content with me to the machine I'm fixing. Getting it on CD would be great, but it'd mean having to run upstairs each time I wanted to find something new, or it'd mean printing out great gobs of info off the CD "just in case" I needed it.
I had just finished reading the Pinball Ninja blog right through from start to end, then it was taken offline. Now this... so much for all those bookmarks I made to individual pages or blog entries with particularly useful tidbits of info. All gone. :cry:
Saddest part is that without this guide having been online in the first place, I wouldn't even have bothered to go down the road of buying my first pinball (a project machine I'm restoring). Had I needed to buy this before I could even get started, I would've left the machine behind (where it would've gone straight to landfill).
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