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| unclet:
What is BST? |
| Lutus:
Buy/Sell/Trade = BST |
| Gambit:
It would be easy. Design a cheap to build arcade machine and get it sold in Walmart stores and you will become a millionaire. I believe you'd just need something like those $19.99 things that connect to the TV and slap it in an arcade standup made like ikea furniture, add a cheap TV, and there you have it. |
| spacies:
I do it for a living here in New Zealand and we only have 4 million people. I guess one bonus about living in a small country is that I can freight a machine from my central location to anywhere for around $100NZD. Started out building 1 cabinet and selling then progressed from there. I have just signed a deal to build 41 cocktail machines over the next 15 months for an up and coming food chain here. I started out building MAME only machines but after 2 PCs gave up and I had to replace them, I stopped building PC machines. The above poster is right, you end up becoming a PC tech and support help line for inexperienced PC users who have purchased a machine. It has supported me for the past 18 months and I only build JAMMA machines now. I can see how you guys feel ripped off buying $3k machine because the most expensive machine I build is $2495 NZD. NZD = .066c USD$ If you think you are skilled enough and have some money saved or some customers lined up then go for it. The standard of machines has to be VERY VERY high for you to succeed or else the word will get around about the quality. Good luck in what ever you do but it may pay to keep your job and do this as a hobby income until it is established properly. ;D |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: spacies on September 17, 2006, 10:22:18 pm ---I do it for a living here in New Zealand and we only have 4 million people. I guess one bonus about living in a small country is that I can freight a machine from my central location to anywhere for around $100NZD. Started out building 1 cabinet and selling then progressed from there. I have just signed a deal to build 41 cocktail machines over the next 15 months for an up and coming food chain here. I started out building MAME only machines but after 2 PCs gave up and I had to replace them, I stopped building PC machines. The above poster is right, you end up becoming a PC tech and support help line for inexperienced PC users who have purchased a machine. It has supported me for the past 18 months and I only build JAMMA machines now. I can see how you guys feel ripped off buying $3k machine because the most expensive machine I build is $2495 NZD. NZD = .066c USD$ If you think you are skilled enough and have some money saved or some customers lined up then go for it. The standard of machines has to be VERY VERY high for you to succeed or else the word will get around about the quality. Good luck in what ever you do but it may pay to keep your job and do this as a hobby income until it is established properly. ;D --- End quote --- Is this legal? I mean, selling the machines is one thing - but selling a machine with Roms? |
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