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Author Topic: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!  (Read 4444 times)

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RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« on: May 29, 2005, 11:06:27 pm »
RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!

What if Ultimarc and GroovyGameGear teamed up?  What would the issues/benefits be to the community?

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2005, 11:18:04 pm »
We'd all be able to spend time with our family due to the lack of available parts... work stoppages would be rampant while they constantly infight over new products.
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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2005, 11:24:36 pm »
Healthy competition is always a good thing.

Being two separate entities means they will continue to work in different directions within the same industry, coming up with new ideas and better ways to do things, all the while pushing costs down thanks to the other's presence.

Smaller groups banding together to make mega-corps aren't always healthy for the end user, especially when it comes to price.  I think in their current forms they are both doing excellent work for the community, and should stay that way.

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2005, 11:48:21 pm »
Not gonna happen. 

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2005, 01:13:02 am »
Although the BYOAC community is still relatively small, copetition can be good for industry even on small levels. If Ultimarc and Groovy Game Gear joined forces, it wouldn't necessarily be a good thing. There'd be less incentive to improve products, and also the avalibility of encoders cound end up going down because two of the best makers merged.

I like that there is some competition in the BYOAC parts buisness, and I wouldn't want that to change.

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2005, 06:31:18 am »
hmmmmm.... the 'I-WIZ' !
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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2005, 06:35:37 am »

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2005, 06:55:20 am »
They are in different countries, wouldn't make sense for two small businesses located in different countries to merge.

Now, I DO wish they would both send stocks of their unique products to Bob Roberts for him to sell.
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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2005, 07:11:55 am »
We'd all be able to spend time with our family due to the lack of available parts...
I actually enjoy the process of having to put effort into finding parts. I think part of the attraction is having to become a little inventive and use whatever you can find from some arcade junkyard!

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2005, 10:16:38 am »
They are in different countries, wouldn't make sense for two small businesses located in different countries to merge.

Now, I DO wish they would both send stocks of their unique products to Bob Roberts for him to sell.

Now that's a good idea! :)

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2005, 12:17:07 pm »
They are in different countries, wouldn't make sense for two small businesses located in different countries to merge.

Now, I DO wish they would both send stocks of their unique products to Bob Roberts for him to sell.
While Bob Roberts stocks alot of stuff helpful to MAMErs, I don't see him stocking stuff exclusively for MAMErs.


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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2005, 06:39:36 pm »
Never gonna happen.  Anyway, if they teamed up, then there wouldn't be any more fights over the superiority of PS/2 vs. USB, encoder processors, and other technical stuff...the last one concerning the A-PAC, DPI, etc was a good one  :D

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2005, 06:56:37 am »
RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!

What if Ultimarc and GroovyGameGear teamed up?  What would the issues/benefits be to the community?
Basically higher prices and fewer product choices.
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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2005, 08:28:05 am »
They are in different countries, wouldn't make sense for two small businesses located in different countries to merge.

Now, I DO wish they would both send stocks of their unique products to Bob Roberts for him to sell.

Not a bad idea, but not with Bob... maybe ponyboy  ;D

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #14 on: May 31, 2005, 08:31:18 am »
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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #15 on: May 31, 2005, 08:35:35 am »
I'd be happy to take Ultimarc items and be a US shipper.

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #16 on: May 31, 2005, 09:35:01 am »
You should ask him.  Heck, charge him a buck for every item you ship... in instore credit.  You seem to build enough machines it would probably be worth it all around.

and just add that buck to the shipping for the US customers.  It would still be cheaper for us. 

Everyone happy

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #17 on: May 31, 2005, 09:45:55 am »
btw, just knowing the two of them..

I would LOVE to see the product announcements.  Heck they would be 5 pages of complaints before anyone else touched the thread :)

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2005, 09:48:45 am »
btw, just knowing the two of them..

I would LOVE to see the product announcements.  Heck they would be 5 pages of complaints before anyone else touched the thread :)
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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #19 on: May 31, 2005, 10:05:42 am »
They couldn't join...

Groovy Ultimarc?

UltiGameGear?

Groovy Gamemarc?

UltiGroovyGameMarc?

See, none of them fit...so, a merger is impossible.  lol

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #20 on: May 31, 2005, 10:16:10 am »
this is just silly talk....like Microsoft and Apple joining forces or something

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #21 on: May 31, 2005, 11:18:04 am »
I was up late doing my research on those extensive 49way threads and I thought it would just be funny.  The back and forth of those threads aye aye aye!  ;D


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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #22 on: June 01, 2005, 07:31:53 am »
I'd be happy to take Ultimarc items and be a US shipper.

I just wish SOMEONE would. Sometimes I want I-Pacs, sometimes I want Keywhizes, but I usually end up ordering a keywhiz even when I want an Ipac due to the lack of a US Ultimarc distributor.
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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #23 on: June 01, 2005, 11:27:25 am »
I am in California and I ordered from Slikstik, Happs and Ultimarc all in the same (drunken) night.  I received my Ultimarc order first.

It came so fast it was weird.

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #24 on: June 01, 2005, 11:28:47 am »
Considering that they seem to live for hurling thinly veiled insults across the ocean at each other I can't see this ever happening.

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Re: RandyT and AndyW should JOIN FORCES!!!
« Reply #25 on: June 01, 2005, 09:00:33 pm »
actually hoagie, that would work nicely....here's the name:

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