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Havok:

--- Quote from: polaris on January 05, 2008, 08:37:17 pm ---can someone clarify this for me.
some guy leaves the company and decides to make good out of his own pocket on his ex employers backorders.

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It seems fairly clear to me - officially he was an employee, but guess who is most likely legally liable... that's right, the same guy. Ex employee? Yeah... Right.... I think that's why he is being so "generous" right now and finally doing what he should have done before - deliver on something he collected money for. It appears to me that the guy finally wised up and woke up one day - crap! I'm going to court if I don't deliver what I promised to most of these people!

Comp1demon:
WOW, What a thread...

Im not super active here anymore - sincce my cabnet is about finished (software is all thats left) and I only check out other peoples stuff and then show it off to my wife so I can beg her to let me build another one... :banghead:

Scott from Mameroom - WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!????  - Dude I bought my cabinet from you - Talked to you on the phone, through email - ect... ect.. You have been one of the best people that helped me with my cabinet.... You even sent me free wood pieces when my drill went haywire >:D (maybe that was me with the drill) anyways.....  Dude You business its TOPS - I don't know where you stand Financially - or whatever - not do I or others care. (obviously its none of our business).  While I respect your opinion about a subject and topic - and I think you have everyright to voice them - not everyone is going to agree with you (right or wrong) and that is going to hurt your business..... While I think that Posting as Owner of MAMEROOM make you look more creditable and gives your opinion more weight with those who understand the position you are taking, explaining, defending...ect... Those who don't like it are going to associate this issue, problem - with you and it MIGHT hurt you.  I think you would have been better off posting your opinions/rants as just another user...  Don't lay your business reputation on the line.  IT's kind of hippocritical... You explain the purpose of the LLC and the difference in Personal from Business (LLC).  You tell people to stop knocking Chris personally but to rant about slickstik as a company - yet you the OWNER OF MAMAEROOM are Personally coming out and voicing your opinions as SCOTT - not as MAMEROOM - but hide behind it.  It's kind of the same thing as the posters here are doing.  They are taking pop shots at Chris and not Slikstik - You are taking shots at the Posters as Scott not as MAMEROOM, yet you use it to let people know who you are. 

Im no one special - but I am Kris and These are my opinions on the matter, I don't have a Moniker, LLC or anything else to make me more than just Kris.  And while my opinions might not matter as I am still very much a NEWB when it comes to Arcade Cabs I do know something about business, Forums and communitys.

You say this Forum don't even account for 15% of overall sales for Slikstik.  Well I spent $1400+ for my Slikstick last year - 15% of that is $210.  Thats quite a bit of cash.  Take 15% of the amount of memebers here who even spend $1.00 at slikstick and thats alot of cash - they would have been in trouble with cash alot earlier if not for communitys like this.

Forums are a double edge sword.  They are communitys of people with similar interest all tring to help each other, but everyone still has a right and wrong way of doing something, how and where or who to buy from.  Communitys like this can extend into the reputation of a business well beyond just the forum itself.  Word of mouth is very popular, as well as those who are here and also run their own sites and hobbiest communitys that have simmilar interst or that  cross paths with BYOAC.  That 15% is probibly more like 25%.  SLikstik exisist because of communitys like BYOAC.

It is also hard being a vendor and being on a forum or community like this.  You take more heat than just a standard user for an issue or annoyance that a user might have.  It can hurt you more in your pocket than in repuatation if you mess up.  Where if someone like Zakk or Drewcarry tell someone something that don't work out for them - while it may hurt their reputation on the board for a little bit - it will blow over, where if a vendor is wrong - the users make sure the community never forgets and causes members to think twice.

I did not read this whole tread, I don't really have any clue what going on with skikstik and chris or anyone else associated with that business, I have an Idea from the past few pages - after I made my post and few pages before.  From what I get - weather its a Guy on his own from Slikstik or slikstik as a company - things are not good.  People are mad, people are getting screwed, waiting long periods of time (nothing new there) and are getting or having issues with products.  Thats business......  When you are someone like Chris - who is a face of the LLC, people will attack him and not the LLC - he is(was) the LLC basicly and while on papaer and according to law are seperate entities, they are the same.  If I dissagree with Microsoft - I have the right to blame Bill Gates, if i have a problem with apple, I have the right to attack Steve Jobs, if my mameroom arcade cabinet pieces come broken or missing, I have the right to blame you, If my slikstik is messsed up i have the right to blame chris or whoever - You get the idea.  Some companies don't have Faces and thats a good thing - When a SOny product breaks - people blame Sony, when AOL sucks people blame time warner - not every company has a famous or single face associated with it - but in nitche areas of the hobby like this - people are as front and center as the name of the company they advertise.

I respect all your (Scott) opinions and I think you are right in some areas and not so in others - just as you probibly don't agree with some, all or anything I am saying here.  I think it would have been better to just HELP THIS GUY OUT WITH HIS PROBLEM, talk about slikstik experiences and let the thread die or evolve past this....

My slikstik experince sucked too.... I didn't attack anyone personally - just said I spent alot of cash, got the wrong thing and waited forever and got no customer serive.. Thats my experience - I did nothing wrong.

Dude (not scott) I will say it again, your control pannel is nice - Fix the corner if you can - the people here are tops - everyone here is good at this hobby and they all know what they are talking about. 

Slikstik - I hope they don't go away - Even though they are slow, sometimes stupid and expensive - they provide a service that is really helpful to newb or lazy hobbiest, and their products are really top notch. I got the wrong layout and I settles for it - I could have gone one and got it fixed - but one year later - I am happy with it.  Next time (and scott I will be coming back to you) once I convince my wife to let me, I will attempt my own CP (though i think I will still have the Blank made for me - im not good at woodcraft).

Back to Scott from Mameroom.....  maybe you should consider tring to replace slikstik (instead of buying them).  Your cabinets rock and i don't know if your control panel blanks are from you or outsourced (from slikstik) - but im sure you have the capability to do them (just as good if not better) - after buying a cabinet from you (UACII)- and getting the support you gave me - I would buy a control panel blank or even a fullly working panel from you anytime - Im sure it would come out better than slikstik and be alot faster.

PS: I live down the block from Dreamauthentics - I'm gonna try to take a tour of there and let you all know how it works there.
PPS: hey Scott you never added my cabinet to you rgallery - I submitted months ago! :soapbox:

Sir Auros:
I wish Scott'd tell us the name of Christian's new company so we can get the word out now. Seriously, defending a guy who lies to his customers about the status of their orders for months, and deep problems with this community for years? Doesn't make me think much of you as a vendor, either.

I've never been a SlikStik customer, because of that and I built my own arcade controls.

Mameroom:
I only want to see people get their merchandise.

Orclord:
As we all do....

When you say 15% of business comes from the BYOAC forums and inferring that is really not a lot, don't forget there are many lurkers (Like me) who do not post much here but have a hand in other forums and sites....

So 15% from BYOAC+ the knockon effect is I think gonna be quite a bit more.....

As for the personnal attacks on Christian all I will say is, If you choose to be the "Public" face of the company and put yourself in the firing line, then expect to get shot at.....

I worked as an engineer for a gas company.....I was the person who was the public face....Now if the job I done was OK said company would get a good name and as you well know word of mouth is king....


However if the customer had a bad expeience with said company say the billing side and I show up, Me being the public face caught their full blown anger to the extent of having a knife pulled on me once and a shotgun shoved in my face......

So if you are the public face of a company that constantly pisses people off you are gonna get it in the neck and you should expect it.....*Especially* when you have *personally* told people a bunch of fairy tales

As for not fulfilling the orders of the people who have slagged him off....Sheesh...How old is he ?

I will continue to advise people not to touch SlikStik with a barge pole.....

This is a small community and shite sticks......Look at Foley.....*Spits*

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