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Can you still buy the parts listed on the web page? It still has shopping carts.
Can you still buy the parts listed on the web page? It still has shopping carts.
You're kidding me, right?
...on the next episode of "Storage Hunters"...
"WHOA! It's full of ARCADE YOKES?!?"
I have several arcade parts that I would never have had if Dave hadn't started up RAM controls and started making replacement parts. Most of them, you couldn't even buy a decent used one if something broke, you just had to hope you could find a complete replacement control panel and pay through the nose.
Many people got upset with his slow delivery of stuff. He'd allow people to pre-order hard to make things like the Star Wars yoke while he still only had prototypes done. He'd have to order mass quantities of the parts and put the things together and people here would scream bloody murder about the wait, though most of them eventually got their yokes.
At that point, I was still on Dave's side. I'd rather have to wait longer than I'd like and get something that works perfectly and was completely unobtainable to that point than not get the part at all. I was in the minority at that point. Many here were ready to send a party out to Dave's house to demand that he give them their yoke or give them their cash back.
Where Dave screwed up was in selling "complete Star Wars cockpits" that he was nowhere near capable of producing. It probably would have taken him years to re-manufacture everything needed to make these work and I think his site was promising delivery in weeks or months. At that point it shifted from painfully slow delivery to outright fraud in my view.
I'm sad that he did that before he made some of the other things he was planning to make that I really wanted. I wish there was someone else who was trying to re-manufacture rare arcade parts, but it's really a labor of love, not a profitable business model.
I disagree. Dave was a con artist from the word GO. In order for a con to work well, you have to deliver on your promises early to build up credibility. You got your parts because you got in early enough... period.
I smelled a rat as far back as late 2006...
Think about it this way... if he wasn't about the con from the word GO... why did he lie about his name from the word GO (His name isn't DAVE ADAMS... it's ADAM JUDD). HHhhhmmmm...