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Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: F|end on July 01, 2003, 01:17:01 pm

Title: Fair price?!
Post by: F|end on July 01, 2003, 01:17:01 pm

 ;D Hi!


I'm just about to buy a Microsoft Sidewinder USB normal pad for 32

Title: Re:Fair price?!
Post by: paigeoliver on July 01, 2003, 02:23:21 pm

Those are $20 retail when not on sale, and $10 or $15 when they are. They are. The USB ones are almost impossible to hack (I have tried, they are totally different than the gameport ones).

So basically, why do you want it?

Title: Re:Fair price?!
Post by: Hoagie_one on July 01, 2003, 02:35:09 pm

Quote from: paigeoliver on July 01, 2003, 02:23:21 pm

The USB ones are almost impossible to hack (I have tried, they are totally different than the gameport ones).

Nutters.  I just traded for a usb sidewinder too.  Sigh.

Title: Re:Fair price?!
Post by: paigeoliver on July 01, 2003, 03:26:23 pm

The problem with them is that there is no place to solder except on the contact pads, and the solder doesn't stick to the pads.

Title: Re:Fair price?!
Post by: IIOIOOIOO on July 01, 2003, 03:54:31 pm

Picture? I have a theory, but I hesitate to posit lest I be way off base.

Title: Re:Fair price?!
Post by: F|end on July 02, 2003, 05:10:13 am

I just bought mine at a local market for 22,50

Title: Re:Fair price?!
Post by: armad1ll0 on July 02, 2003, 06:15:42 am

In California, the normal 6 button USB pad is always $15.

The other one, is up to $30-35

Title: Re:Fair price?!
Post by: F|end on July 02, 2003, 06:28:16 am

Man, i live in Portugal and things here don't come cheap!

Besides that, we're are in economical crisis and ironically things are more expensive than ever!

To ballance the stupid situacion we are in, we now have the

Title: Re:Fair price?!
Post by: BillyJack on July 02, 2003, 10:08:01 am

Man, don't those "

Title: Re:Fair price?!
Post by: Wienerdog on July 03, 2003, 04:28:28 pm

Quote from: BillyJack on July 02, 2003, 10:08:01 am

Man, don't those "

Title: Re:Fair price?!
Post by: Wienerdog on July 03, 2003, 04:31:50 pm

And I even have friends saying:
"it does look like one though."

Title: Re:Fair price?!
Post by: Magnet_Eye on July 03, 2003, 06:31:30 pm

hey, didn't someone post a find for $5 sidewinders from some website?

do a search, maybe you can find it.

 8)

Title: Re:Fair price?!
Post by: grafixmonkey on July 04, 2003, 03:06:32 am

Quote from: paigeoliver on July 01, 2003, 02:23:21 pm

The USB ones are almost impossible to hack

I bet you could find some place or another along the trace where you could just drill a new hole and stick your wire through.  I've done this with PCBs, although only ones that I etched myself (and needed to modify afterwards).  

Hold it up to  bright light, and see if there are any points with no traces on the reverse side of the board.