darinjacobs
Well-known member
I welcome your feedback, even if it's negative but not personal.
As you know the majority if not all of the mass produced items have been made. Going back a few years or so and forward we are doing fill projects or custom art (multicade, our upright versions still in the works and delayed because I'm moving). Because of this the risk factor is greatly enhanced. The qtys are smaller so the price is higher and there's a lot less demand. This is the reason preorders are so commonplace today. Heck, when was the last time you seen Arcadeshop put out a new repro art project. 6-7 years ago?
Now I try not to do preorders that often. I really don't like them to be honest. Too many details to manage. But it's become a necessary evil. When doing preorders I usually offer a discount as an additional incentive to getting more fence sitters in on it.
Within the last year or so I've taken on some risky projects without preorders and so far have taken a bath. I don't want to bore you with each one, but the most recent I'm taking issue with is AD mini side art. It's been talked about on here for awhile. I have a list of 17 KLOV'ers who said they would buy it. It's here and only sold 2 sets. One to Michael Lenardon (who was on the list) and to someone I don't think is in here at all. He just wanted to hang it on his wall because it's so cool (Rich did a wonderful job with Scotts films). I really don't think anyone else would've screened this and it's not offered anywhere else and for this old timer I've never seen it on a machine before.
I got a recent batch of films from Scott and more on the way. It seems many of these are gonna be preorder projects. I'm still refusing to inkjet these projects but if you guys don't start stepping up that will be the wave of the future and the price may not even be lower.
I hope I didn't offend anyone but wanted to rant a little as I was shuffling around some inventory as new stuff has arrived and seeing these full shelves of recently printed art not moving got me irritated.
What say you?
As you know the majority if not all of the mass produced items have been made. Going back a few years or so and forward we are doing fill projects or custom art (multicade, our upright versions still in the works and delayed because I'm moving). Because of this the risk factor is greatly enhanced. The qtys are smaller so the price is higher and there's a lot less demand. This is the reason preorders are so commonplace today. Heck, when was the last time you seen Arcadeshop put out a new repro art project. 6-7 years ago?
Now I try not to do preorders that often. I really don't like them to be honest. Too many details to manage. But it's become a necessary evil. When doing preorders I usually offer a discount as an additional incentive to getting more fence sitters in on it.
Within the last year or so I've taken on some risky projects without preorders and so far have taken a bath. I don't want to bore you with each one, but the most recent I'm taking issue with is AD mini side art. It's been talked about on here for awhile. I have a list of 17 KLOV'ers who said they would buy it. It's here and only sold 2 sets. One to Michael Lenardon (who was on the list) and to someone I don't think is in here at all. He just wanted to hang it on his wall because it's so cool (Rich did a wonderful job with Scotts films). I really don't think anyone else would've screened this and it's not offered anywhere else and for this old timer I've never seen it on a machine before.
I got a recent batch of films from Scott and more on the way. It seems many of these are gonna be preorder projects. I'm still refusing to inkjet these projects but if you guys don't start stepping up that will be the wave of the future and the price may not even be lower.
I hope I didn't offend anyone but wanted to rant a little as I was shuffling around some inventory as new stuff has arrived and seeing these full shelves of recently printed art not moving got me irritated.
What say you?

