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Post by binarystar on Jan 11, 2014 4:16:56 GMT -5
Attention Vectrex developers (or future developers/builders of repro carts etc)!
I am currently looking into a group-buy for Vectrex cartridge shells. We are looking to get the best possible price on them so if you are interested in ordering shells can you please post here with your name, the number of shells you require (lets say a minimum of 100 units per developer) and your location.
I am afraid we cannot supply shells to flashcart/multicart builders.
*edit* Please also indicate if you require PCBs too (eeprom type - they use 32k or 64k chips like the PCBs Jon Dondzila used to supply)
Thanks,
Chris
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Post by VECTREXER on Jan 11, 2014 18:09:49 GMT -5
I am also in on this.
The minimum order amount will be met (1000 shells). Estimated price is $2.50 each.
If all of us can get the total order up to 4000 shells then the price could drop to an estimated $1.75 each.
Chris
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Post by 50tbrd on Jan 11, 2014 18:38:29 GMT -5
250 for 100 shells almost makes me want to buy some for no dang reason.
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Post by VectorX on Jan 11, 2014 19:45:02 GMT -5
I thought the same as well.  |
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Post by jfmateos on Jan 12, 2014 3:19:50 GMT -5
I am worried about the shipping... any clue about how much would be the shipping to spain of 100 shells?
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Post by Binarystar1 on Jan 12, 2014 3:46:06 GMT -5
We are trying to keep prices down to a minimum, as well as shipping costs. There will be stock held in the US and the UK and distributed from there. We are trying to make sure we dont order too few/many. Minumum order is 2000 now but i think we shall be buying more than that. There is a discount at 5000 pieces, just trying to gauge if there is enough interest to warrant ordering a number that high. No point in having a large excess of stock sitting around.
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Post by 50tbrd on Jan 12, 2014 12:01:11 GMT -5
Have you contacted Richard Hutchinson, George, Andrew Coleman, Kristoff and John's successor?
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Post by VECTREXER on Jan 12, 2014 13:38:49 GMT -5
Messages have been sent already.
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Post by VectorX on Jan 12, 2014 13:54:41 GMT -5
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Post by 50tbrd on Jan 14, 2014 19:17:28 GMT -5
He had one lined up, I suppose, but it has been a couple of months since I was told things just needed to be finalized. I have not contacted him since then and the site hasn't made any progress since its initial make over. |
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Post by VectorX on Jan 14, 2014 19:24:08 GMT -5
Well, that's good to hear (I hope?). Just have to wait and see how things go I guess (personally I'm not going to bother him since he's busy enough as it is).
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Post by Kristof on Jan 16, 2014 4:15:39 GMT -5
Hello there to all !
Are these the usual shells like Sean Kelly used to produce or are these shells coming from a new tooling/manufacturer ?
IF they are the same or have at least a similar quality, then I'm also interested in +-750 shells.
Delivery to Belgium (shipment fromout the U.K. then I suppose?)
Cheers !
Kristof
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Post by binarystar on Jan 16, 2014 6:11:38 GMT -5
Hi Kristof, thanks for posting here. These are from the same source as before. Sean is arranging the manufacture in China. I'm happy to send on carts from UK however it would probably work out cheaper to send from the US to you for such a large batch. I think the current plan is to wait until the end of the month to get a good idea of the number of carts needed in the US/UK and europe and order based on that. I will keep a good few hundred, possibly 1000 spare to sell to UK/europe devs and I think Matthew and Sean plan to hold a stock for devs in the US.
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Post by cNp on Jan 19, 2014 4:14:54 GMT -5
For reference... if 'one' had the PCBs what do you then need to do/have to get code on them so it was a working cart?
Just thinking forward for myself and if making my own carts was going to be a goer.
Cheers,
cNp
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Post by revivalstudios on Jan 19, 2014 8:59:34 GMT -5
i'll take a few hundred
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