Frax
New member
So, this guy has been selling repro shuttles for Space Shuttle on ebay for a few months, 5 here, 10 there, another batch of 10 after he said the last batch was the last one....60$+10$ shipping. They do have decals that he printed on them, pre-applied.
I'm sick of waiting on Pinball Inc who doesnt say shit about what theyre doing since they were supposed to have repro ramps out at the end of October by their own account and have not released them yet.
70$ is a lot, Imo for a 5$ sheet of petg plastic and some stickes probably printed on avery paper bought at office max and an inkjet. He is vaccuforming them off a mold he made for himself (defective mold at that) and has it listed as buy it now or submit offer.
So I did. 20$ plus his 10$ shipping. I told him that since he hasnt bothered to licence either the labels or the toy itself from Planetary, and is using a flawed mold, dont think that his "product" is worth the price he is asking. I basicslly get an email back saying he accepted the offer but that he is barely making any money not out to screw anyone over and that he is trying to recover his cost of trial and error and lost materials yadda yadda. Whatever.
My question for consideration is this:
If you make a repro part FOR YOURSELF, and then decide to offer a few to the community, do you try and turn a rather large profit as this guy seems to be doing to recover all the costs of making your first one, or do you sell a little bit ocer the actual cost of the materials and eat the decelopment loss since you were going to do it ANYWAYS?
This particular issue is pissing me off because I specifically did not pursue this project because Planetary told me that I could not sell them because Pinball Inc was going to do them. I have reported this guy to them and didnt evrn get a response from them and this is the second time he has had them for sale since. If they arent going to make their licensees produce in a timely manner, or even protect their patents, why should I give one flying f about what they say not to do? :|
I'm sick of waiting on Pinball Inc who doesnt say shit about what theyre doing since they were supposed to have repro ramps out at the end of October by their own account and have not released them yet.
70$ is a lot, Imo for a 5$ sheet of petg plastic and some stickes probably printed on avery paper bought at office max and an inkjet. He is vaccuforming them off a mold he made for himself (defective mold at that) and has it listed as buy it now or submit offer.
So I did. 20$ plus his 10$ shipping. I told him that since he hasnt bothered to licence either the labels or the toy itself from Planetary, and is using a flawed mold, dont think that his "product" is worth the price he is asking. I basicslly get an email back saying he accepted the offer but that he is barely making any money not out to screw anyone over and that he is trying to recover his cost of trial and error and lost materials yadda yadda. Whatever.
My question for consideration is this:
If you make a repro part FOR YOURSELF, and then decide to offer a few to the community, do you try and turn a rather large profit as this guy seems to be doing to recover all the costs of making your first one, or do you sell a little bit ocer the actual cost of the materials and eat the decelopment loss since you were going to do it ANYWAYS?
This particular issue is pissing me off because I specifically did not pursue this project because Planetary told me that I could not sell them because Pinball Inc was going to do them. I have reported this guy to them and didnt evrn get a response from them and this is the second time he has had them for sale since. If they arent going to make their licensees produce in a timely manner, or even protect their patents, why should I give one flying f about what they say not to do? :|