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SirPoonga:
"Finished cabinets would include printed marquee and sideart, CP overlays, monitor, PC, controls, interface, and an attractive, pre-configured frontend."

What FE?
paigeoliver:

--- Quote from: nostrebor on October 31, 2004, 09:48:42 pm ---With respect to soapboy... 1up will be luck to survive at this price point. I work in the manufacturing industry, in a much larger scale. I sold over 14 mil last year, in a midwest environment (=lower cost compared to California), and luckily netted a bit over 100 grand in the end. This is for a business that is 47 years established, and is a niche market as well. Bottom line = it's hard to stay liquid in a world full of tightwads :P

Before you judge 1up further consider this. I watched a used jamma cabinet, 2 player with a computer trackball still on the cord, Mamewah on a nice pc with no special layout, loaded with games, sell for $2400 at the St Louis auction. If folks will pay that much for that, a new state of the art cab, with all the whistles, should easily sell for 1up's price point.

My $0.02... FWIW

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MrArcade built that cabinet and other than the trackball it was super nice and had a cool brand new computer in it and arcadeVGA and a very good setup and all.

Did you see my cab at the auction? It was the red Mame cabinet labled MGS that was next to the Dragon's Lair. I got $800 for mine. Sure MrArcade got 3x as much for his, but his also cost probably 4x as much to build.

I'm on msn messenger now for the person who asked.
SirPoonga:
I do agree, it's a bit expensive for this crowd.  It would be better marketted elsewhere.  Since this is a build your own arcade controls site people here, in general, build their own stuff.  There will be a few that will buy something like this.  But for the most part I wouldn't think it wouldn't be too marketable here.
Gunstar Hero:
I don't think the full on system for $5500 is out of the question pricewise at all... it's the $3000 "wood and connectors" kit that's the killer.

I think we ALL want cabs like that, but hell, it's not worth that much money just to avoid a little cutting and planning.

There are others...
1UP:

--- Quote from: clanggedin on November 01, 2004, 12:40:39 am ---Someone is going to come along and build a cab with their own version of retating controls and sell the kit or blueprints for a fraction of the cost. Just be careful that you dont' price yourself too high or it will happen exactly as I'm saying it.

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There are half a dozen little garage shops that sell cabinets at a fraction of Hanaho's prices, yet Hanaho continues to do business as it has for years, and shows no signs of dropping prices or going bankrupt.

Why is that?  The difference is quality.  Hanaho has a different customer base than the nameless guys who sell cheap Mamecabs, and those people actually are willing to pay more because they know they are not getting cheap crap that is all out of square and wobbly.  I know the people who buy Hanaho, and they are highly paid film editors, CEOs, producers, directors, etc.  These are the people I'm going for.  The kits were just a way to give the BYOAC crowd a product that they could still customize.

This is an entirely different kind of product than anything that's out there right now.  It beats every other commercial cabinet in looks, function, and expandability.  It's at least 10 cabinets in one, without the cluttered layout.  It has 3 times as many controls as any other upright.

At this moment, I have dozens of people waiting to order.  Every time I even post on this forum, about any topic, I get about half a dozen more.  That doesn't sound like I'm heading for a dead end.  ;)

Oh, and if anyone else tries to market a cab with the same exact rotating design, they will be sued.  They will have to come up with something different to skirt the patent law, and it will either be more expensive, or of lower quality.  I'm not afraid.
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