Ram controls current reputation?

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I haven't been keeping up with the scene lately, but I am in need of a new SW yoke or rebuild kit. Is it safe to order from Ram Controls? Have they been rehabilitated or is it the same old story of Order-N-Pray ? Curious if anyone has any recent personal experience good or bad. Thanks!
 
He owes people around the world about 150k that we know about. Probably a good idea not to order from him, regardless of whether or not he actually sends your item, because if you send him cash you're sending cash to a crook. I prefer to send my cash to good people.
 
Ah that figures. And nobody else repro's those parts right?

I wasn't sure if he had repaid people and been rehabilitated, apparentley not. Too bad the only remanufacturer of such crucial parts has to be a crook!
 
I haven't been keeping up with the scene lately, but I am in need of a new SW yoke or rebuild kit. Is it safe to order from Ram Controls? Have they been rehabilitated or is it the same old story of Order-N-Pray ? Curious if anyone has any recent personal experience good or bad. Thanks!

Every time I think it's safe for me to eat a jalapeño, my asshole ends up getting burned later on.
 
2/18/13 - It is with a sad heart that we must announce that Ram Controls is closing. Our ownership is moving on to other endeavors and we will be ending regular operations on March 1st 2013. Most of the remaining stock will be going into deep storage with a few key items being sold on this site or auctioned off on Ebay. Thank you all for your support and business though the years, it has been a pleasure serving the arcade community these past nine years.

That's from the home page of the site.

Aside from that, this community has been burned so badly for so much money by RAM, why would you want to give them one damn penny?
 
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Yeah it really sucks. He made really nice stuff.

It appears what happened, or to a large degree, is that he got samples of parts or small lots and didn't pay the makers. People in China and India probably got stiffed, then he sold stuff here for what looked like unrealistic low prices. That's how.. That said, the stuff was copied exactly (go China!) and good stuff. I was looking at the SW dlx kit last night thinking, damn..that's a lot of parts.
 
About a month ago, I ordered the pots and linkages for an atari gimble controller. A week later the amount of the linkages were refunded to me, and the pots showed up a couple of days later my pots showed up. Kind of disappointing, as the linkage was the part I really needed, the pots I could have gotten elsewhere. My understanding of the current situation is that the website and all the inventory was sold to someone else and the guy who stole everyone's money has nothing to do with it anymore.
 
About a month ago, I ordered the pots and linkages for an atari gimble controller. A week later the amount of the linkages were refunded to me, and the pots showed up a couple of days later my pots showed up. Kind of disappointing, as the linkage was the part I really needed, the pots I could have gotten elsewhere. My understanding of the current situation is that the website and all the inventory was sold to someone else and the guy who stole everyone's money has nothing to do with it anymore.

That was debunked..
 
Well since the guy who stole everybody's money used about 5 different aliases, and said he was a different guy several times, I'd take all that with a grain of salt, rtree1.
 
All I know is that I got what I paid for, and what was out of stock, I got a refund for.

That's been par for the course for a while - people often do get the items, then some don't, but the bottom line is that a BUNCH of folks were screwed out of money.
 
I haven't been keeping up with the scene lately, but I am in need of a new SW yoke or rebuild kit. Is it safe to order from Ram Controls? Have they been rehabilitated or is it the same old story of Order-N-Pray ? Curious if anyone has any recent personal experience good or bad. Thanks!

I have one Premium Star Wars rebuild kit left for sale.
 
About a month ago, I ordered the pots and linkages for an atari gimble controller. A week later the amount of the linkages were refunded to me, and the pots showed up a couple of days later my pots showed up. Kind of disappointing, as the linkage was the part I really needed, the pots I could have gotten elsewhere. My understanding of the current situation is that the website and all the inventory was sold to someone else and the guy who stole everyone's money has nothing to do with it anymore.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Why in the hell are you supporting that fucking crook. You should be ashamed of yourself. Thanks for shitting on ALL of us.
 
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run from ram. dont support them, and be very careful of any new arcade parts companies. they could close ram and start a new company and do the same thing again. theres a lot of good vendors out there that can use the business!
 
i really need a new handle for my Lunar lander restore. Only place to get it is ram, but i just couldn't order one on principal. I'll figure out how to make it nice.
 
About a month ago, I ordered the pots and linkages for an atari gimble controller. A week later the amount of the linkages were refunded to me, and the pots showed up a couple of days later my pots showed up. Kind of disappointing, as the linkage was the part I really needed, the pots I could have gotten elsewhere. My understanding of the current situation is that the website and all the inventory was sold to someone else and the guy who stole everyone's money has nothing to do with it anymore.


wow just wow
sad part is I know for a fact others who have ordered as well
some knowingly and wont admit it here and others (newbs)
who had no idea what happened.
:confused:
 
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