Apparently, the RAM Control parts are crap and don't work. Why else would they need to sit in a box instead of being used to make an arcade machine work properly.
Absolutely not true.
If you were to have, say, a Food Fight joystick shaft reproduced, you might either
a)ship an NOS one to a manufacturer in China to make an exact copy of
or
b)draw up/spec it in AutoCAD, and send that info to a manufacturer in China
They ship you the parts. They're near perfect reproductions, perhaps hard to distinguish from original/NOS parts.
That's what 'RAM' did. RAM was Adam Judd and another guy I can't recall whose LinkedIn showed he was experienced in engineering/CAD, etc. To an extent, they had the parts reproduced like any of the other guys here would do (that's where it stopped). Their parts were no better/no worse.
What RAM did wrong, in quick and dirty summary-
-didn't actually pay some/all of the manufacturers for the parts - they received 'samples' and didn't pay. This has been confirmed in a previous discussion.
-shipped a lot of product out for cheap prices (pure profit, if they didn't pay for the parts themselves)
-didn't ship some things that KLOV'rs and others paid for
-took large preorders for SW cockpits, and I don't know why anyone paid for those, but they did, and never delivered and refused to refund
and one that's not confirmed, but I strongly suspect and would bet money on-
They likely used stolen FedEx credentials to ship, shipping for free. They sold a lot of stuff, shipped for either free or next to nothing. People, including myself, received product from multiple addresses. One ended up actually being a car wash and one a Fed Ex store in a strip mall.