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jdfarmer:
 am a student at the University of Washington and need help on a Marketing Assignment. I am trying to project sales in the gaming industry, focusing specifically on Arcade games. If you could take a minute, visit my site and answer the following questions, you would be doing me a great service. All responses will be aggregated for the report and will remain completely anonymous. Thank you!

1) What is your age?
2) Income Range:
a)<$25000
b)$25,001-$45,000
c)>$45,001
3)Would you buy a personal arcade system as seen at www.funkade.com?
4)Why would you buy? or Why wouldn't you buy?
5)5)What gaming publications do you read/subscribe to?
6)Can we contact you later for a follow up?

If you are interested and would like to learn more about Funkade, please feel free to email me:

justin@funkade.com Thank you!

mahuti:
yawhn. ::)

I feel like I just left a time-share come-on.

quarterback:

--- Quote from: jdfarmer on March 02, 2005, 01:33:14 am ---If you could take a minute, visit my site and answer the following questions,
--- End quote ---

Visiting your site apparently means come check out what you have for sale.

No thanks

paigeoliver:
Bad time to get in the business of making Multicabs, licensed or not. I stopped making them altogether as I could barely even get $500 for them anymore.

APFelon:
I'll bite. I had to do something similar for a class I had not too long ago. I won't mail it to, you, though.


1) What is your age?

33

2) Income Range:
C

3)Would you buy a personal arcade system as seen at www.funkade.com?
No

4)Why would you buy? or Why wouldn't you buy?
Because I built my own. Most people on this forum have or are working on building their own.

5)What gaming publications do you read/subscribe to?
Computer Games


6)Can we contact you later for a follow up?
Sorry, no.

A question: is this a "widget" or an actual product?

But like I said, I had a project like this one for a rhetoric class. One big thing that you have overlooked in posting this to this forum is that we are mostly here because we have either built our own machines or are working on it. That being said, you are missing one HUGE sales point: You failed to recognize your target market. Selling a prefab, prebuilt machine here is like, as they say, selling ice cubes to Eskimos.

Also, the problem is that someone who is in the market for such an item is hard to "spot" in that no one goes out looking for a multigame cab one bright and early morning. You must first let your market A) know that such a thing exists and B) you can provide one. You'd be better off picking kids off of your campus commons to do a focus group with since this entire forum knows that they exists and are in the process or have completed a machine of their own..

Another HUGE problem that you will encounter if you conduct this type of business over the Internet is that recently we have had a businessman  try to trademark MAME in order to eliminate cabinets such as yours. He has a gnarly lawyerbeast that he will unleash on you if he finds that you tied your shoelaces illegitimately. Take care with this.

Good luck in your class.

APf

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