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Kickstarter project - Ultimate Mancave, need tips please

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Gravity123:

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--- Quote from: Skinnysloth on September 22, 2014, 12:44:03 am ---Are the X-box controllers removable?  I feel like it will get in the way or just jab into my stomach or crotch when using the arcade joysticks.

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You can't multitask? imagine being able to access the joystick with left hand, buttons with right, and dpad with the crotch? the possibilities are endless.

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And the controllers vibrate, don't forget!

pbj:
The PBJ BS detector has officially dinged. 

 :cheers:

dkersten:

--- Quote ---Sounds like this guy doesnt know how to float and bottoms out. Bet you suck at defender. I can beat that game with my toes.
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LOL!  Maybe I need to learn martial arts, then I could float with the other masters..


--- Quote ---The PBJ BS detector has officially dinged.
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Yeah, this keeps sounding worse and worse..

So to the OP, let me get this straight.. you built a successful business with this arcade cabinet, but now have over a hundred units you can no longer sell through retail means, so you are starting a kickstarter to ... ?  That is where you lose me.  Kickstarters are for people who have ideas but no funding.  You already had the business, you have the product, the business seems to have failed, and you want to raise money to do what exactly?  Pay for the stock you are losing??  The product is already dead stock, there isn't anything being developed here, and there isn't even a viable business model to profit from. (if there was, you would pursue that direction to unload your inventory)  I just don't get it. 

You are right, we aren't your customers when it comes to the product you are selling.  There is some interest in your buttons, but your reluctance to even acknowledge and address that interest tells me that there is something something fishy here. 

I usually give the benefit of the doubt with anyone I am not familiar with, but too many red flags are popping up here.  The buttons DO sound intriguing, and if that is something the OP is looking to market, perhaps talking to RandyT or Andy at Ultimarc would benefit everyone.  I wouldn't hesitate to buy an analog button from one of those two guys because I trust them.  This OP though, sorry, doesn't sound like he is on the level.

Malenko:
from what Ive read he's re-purposing old inventory into a new product, of course I may be reading it wrong.

HanoiBoi:
I read it the same way, Malenko.

Gravity, this doesn't sound like a kickstarter project, but rather just a straight sale.  Set and finalize the price points as seen in your kickstarter draft, then offer up the cabinets for sale by means of a website, Craigslist, eBay, etc..

Pretty straight forward but I guess it depends on what condition your current 100 machines are in.

It seems to me that you want to create preorders, as in locking in the sales, before putting any more time into the cabinets.  It doesn't sound like you want to continue after unloading what you've got.

If you are just looking to dump inventory, figure out an acceptable % of loss, and cut your prices, and get them listed.  Offer some as whole, offer some as parts

Either way, it sounds like a lot of work ahead of you.

Oh...and please, please change the subject.  'Ultimate Mancave' doesn't describe this thing at all.

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