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Is there a market for custom CPs in the $300-400 range?
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ArcadeKO:
I see these CPs on ebay and various sites for like $595 - $695 and personally I don't really care too much for the artwork.

I have been building machines and am thinking about offering up control panels for between $300-$400

so I am wondering is there a market for that? I am guessing shipping would run about $75 with UPS? (just guessing here)

but we could make up some nice CPs with usb/ps/2 connectors that could be dropped right ito a mame cab OR just used as
a PC controller. So is there a market out there for these?

Here are a couple we have made:



a not very good pic of my AvP

*the red circle "after treatment" is because its from a thing about repairing scratched resin

the buttons all light up they look pretty sweet
BobA:
Might be a market but not here where we all (most) build our own.
javeryh:
Even at $400 what would your profit margin look like?  The controls + encoder + buttons aren't cheap.  Plus there's materials and your time.  I don't know.
ArcadeKO:

--- Quote from: javeryh on April 22, 2010, 06:40:07 pm ---Even at $400 what would your profit margin look like?  The controls + encoder + buttons aren't cheap.  Plus there's materials and your time.  I don't know.

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It's not going to make me rich thats for sure - I am just trying to support my habit -err hobby
saint:

--- Quote from: BobA on April 22, 2010, 05:24:49 pm ---Might be a market but not here where we all (most) build our own.


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I would guess (entirely gut feel, no statistical data) that roughly half of the visitors here end up buying instead of building.
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