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So how good is the Mame cabinet market?
Thenasty:
--- Quote from: Hoagie_one on July 16, 2009, 11:13:07 pm ---Was thinking about buying old working cabs, converting them to mame cabs and reselling them.
Is there any kind of market for this thats profitable or is the market already filled with do it yourselfers?
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Maybe you should wait till DF goes to the Bighouse. He may come after you selling (like he did on e-bay). ;)
TPB:
--- Quote from: RayB on July 17, 2009, 10:51:41 am ---
For some people, the 48 in 1s are a better seller because buyers don't want "some old PC". They feel its a hack and they're not getting their money's worth. But a machine with a "proper" new circuit board, they feel is a good value.
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Agreed.
That's the consumer mindset. If they're paying for a "turnkey" setup, they don't want to fiddle with some old PC under the cover.
Those who wants something more advanced, are more inclined to dabble themselves and build their own machine.
If you get into this business, the 48-in-1 and xxxx-in-1 boards will be more marketable, and less hassle for you to assemble and configure.
As everyone's aware, the xxxx-in-1 boards are modified PC's that have been wired to a JAMMA interface. But its part of an integrated, standardised system (well, they're all from the same factory in China !!), so it remains more marketable than an old PC hidden inside a MAME cabinet. The xxxx-in-1's are often reported as being sluggish, with underpowered Celeron processors, but the purchaser often doesn't consider those things.
boxman:
Quite often I have a look for mamed cabinets on ebay. If you go to advanced search you can choose to see completed listings and see what sells and what doesn't. Most of the time the cabinets don't sell, sometimes they sell really cheap and a few times I have seen truly awful cabinets sell for a high price. I saw a pretty bad one sell on there for over £400 a few weeks ago, god knows how they managed to sell that thing.
I suppose it's worth a shot if you don't take it too seriously, but I imagine it will be completely unpredictable. One thing to note is that the general public have no idea about emulation, so you would have to make sure all the roms on the machine run perfectly (if you dared to sell with the roms) otherwise I can see some customers flipping out because tekken 3 runs like crap.
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