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dcninja:
How do arcade part suppliers make money? particularly on buttons and sticks? How can these companies continue to make them and stay in business? I see so many different arcade part seller websites, but most people don't even know the hobby still exists. It can't be beneficial for them to continue to manufacture these things for much longer, right? I just worry that one day something will break and there will be nowhere to get replacements and our machines will end up being giant paperweights. Am I overthinking this?
Malenko:
Im pretty sure "arcade buttons" have other uses, like when I went to the automated car wash the buttons to pick what wash you wanted were arcade buttons.
Sjaak:
I think most of them are resellers and not manufacturers.
Louis Tully:
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nitrogen_widget:

--- Quote from: Sjaak on March 27, 2014, 07:56:48 am ---I think most of them are resellers and not manufacturers.

--- End quote ---

I think the buttons are all made in one or two factories in china for pennies then shipped here to resellers.

I doubt they will ever disappear.
There are some factories in China that will make anything for anyone cheaply.
My dad used to have a factory manufacturing his own line of knock-off eyeglass frames.
The same factory that made the name-brand frames.

He was not a rich man however his overhead was only his car & roach motels when he went on the road.
The markup on eyeglasses is insane by the way.

Joysticks probably cost a little more.
For name brand joysticks I assume the parts are made in china then shipped here for assembly for better quality control but that is just a guess on my part.
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