As always, thank you for your feedback. But I'm not entirely sure I follow you with your price complaint.
Okay, then in simpler terms: It's too high. Especially when you've 1, maybe 2 sheets of particle board, etc. to make the entire cabinet shell.
Yes, it is priced similarly to the cocktail cabinet shell. I don't see why this comes as a surprise.
And again in simpler terms: A cocktail cabinet is... BIGGER and when you have bigger, you have more materials and you expect to pay more when it comes to things like... furniture. When you're paying for something like a cell phone and the Industrial Design footprint and the minute parts that carry the functionality need to be jammed into a tiny casing, then you expect a higher price.
In this case, less is more and that does not seem at all right. And as has been stated, the shipping is pretty damn high. I just shipped an 84lb refrigerator from Illinois to Georgia via UPS for a grand total of $67.
While I have heard great things about the arcade depot kits, it looks like the cocktail is a fairly basic box that could be created with nothing more than a circular saw and dowel jig. On the other hand, my bartop cabinet is a fairly complex, curvy cab, that requires quite a bit of work to get right. I actually had to order several bits just for this cab. Not to mention that this cabinet has a cam lock system that allows disassembling, compared to the permanent dowels of the cocktail cabinet. The cam locks cost quite a bit in hardware, plus the time spent aligning and drilling them. When compared, I think the size difference between a cocktail and a bartop is not enough of a discrepancy to make a large difference in price.
I disagree. See above.
Additionally, when researching over the summer, I contacted a CNC shop. The cost for me to mass-manufacture all of the pieces for 10 full size cabinets was somewhere in the $1500 - $2000 range, and there's a range of error there as I am going from memory, but I do not recall a sticker shock of anything more than somewhere around $1800.
Why is it that you're not going some route such as this? Surely the upfront costs could be a little intimidating, but I'm willing to bet that with a lower sticker price you could generate pre-order commitment and cover your costs in a few orders.
Why not spend an extra $200 and get a 6' cabinet? You tell me. If you are in the market for a bartop I'm sure you already have plenty of reasons. Maybe you don't have the space for a full cabinet. Maybe you want to start small and the get hang of arcade machines before going full-size. Maybe you don't want to invest in the cost of a full size cabinet (both the initial cost and the finishing cost will be much more). There are tons of reasons. In the end, if you want a cocktail, buy a cocktail, if you want a standup, buy a standup, if you want the coolest looking and most deluxe bartop on the market, buy my bartop.
And I'll disagree again. We had a lot of discussions with you in regards to buying these types of cabinets. I don't recall any of the above rationale and I don't think I would be so bold as to call yours the coolest looking, most deluxe when almost everything ends up being personalized post-build of the cabinet.
I'm in the market for a bartop because I want one. I want an additional unit that can be played while hanging out when others are banging the hell out of my trackball playing Golden Tee or so my kid can hang out with Pac Man or so it can look cool.
But I'm not going to invest $310 to get it to my doorstep and then drop in a box which is another ~$200 and then get moving ahead on such things like the artwork and control panel and monitor.
Granted, not everyone's going to be in that shape; for me, having spare computers and monitors around is common--and probably a little common for a lot of the folks on here so we're looking for an additional "cool" factor for our bar in the basement or for our kids or something else.
More simply put: $150 is where reasonable appears to sit for me. Maybe my built-in "deal hound" nature is driving that mental price, but when I compare size and parts, etc. to something like Mameroom's cabinet kit for $460 compared to your $250, the math just doesn't work for me. It doesn't have to, though--it has to work for you and for people who buy from you.
I must concede though, the $60 shipping is more than I wanted to charge. But I have checked into it, and that is as cheap as I could get it. However, I did manage to get the sizes under the limits for normal mail, meaning that it doesn
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