Re: Arcade Chips, Again. Sigh.

On Mar 22, 10:08 am, jbuck <jbuc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 21, 7:02 pm, "Skrud" <srodrig...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ok, after paying my $40 and waiting 10 weeks, and no e-mail responses for 8
weeks, I guess I'm officially screwed over by Mr. Mark Capps aka,
ArcadeChips. Lots of excuses, no delivery, and now silence. Hope he needed
the $40 worse than I did.

Lot's of good guys out there; he's not one of them. Sorry if he's your bud,
but he shouldn't be in business if he can't deliver the goods or even return
an e-mail. Hope he sells his stock to someone that can actually do business
with the public like Bob Roberts.

Scott In Ohio

I have a bunch of excess chips that I threw up on a *very* simple web
page. There's no shopping cart or anything, but it might help if
someone needs something and they're in a pinch. I have more boxes to
go through so the list is a bit small right now but I'll be updating
more soon. Check outwww.coinopchips.comif interested...


You know I registered a arcade related domain two years ago with the
intent of offering services and parts that are of excess stock. I
think it's time I got off my ass and did it. The recent trouble I have
been having is that I have thousands upon thousands of parts. Until
now they were sorted into bins and labled. When I needed a part I
would grab one and when a bin looked low I would put it on the order
sheet. The issue now is that I am trying to move it all into excel and
there is so damn much of it that it's becoming overwhelming all in
it's own. I got two bins counted and had a count over 2500 parts
alone. That took a few hours to count and enter with descriptions. And
there are many more to enter. And when I'm done with the bins I have
boxes :( and then tubes :( and thats just the semiconductors.

But the idea was not to sell semi's on the site but rather allow the
stock database to be published real time. This would allow customers
to email me with an inquiry to sell, or just allow a convienence of
picking up a few things while they inquire about a service or hard
part. Hard parts being whole items and soft parts being components
(semiconductors, resistors, caps, etc). And then managing the database
has taken some adjustment as well. Imagine doing a cap kit and every
cap I pull I have to turn around and pull it out of the spreadsheet
before I stuff it into the board. It is a major PITA..

BTW if anyone out there in the PGH PA area would like to do some data
entry or web design in exchange for goods and services, please email
me. I have all the software and ideas, just have not had the time. I
admin the server so you can use any code your comfortable with and I
can install the required dependancies.

On another note I have to make a trip to ATL this spring to pick up
my Tail Gunner cockpit from my uncles house, it's been there long
enough. While I was down there I was going to go visit another
collector as well. If I have the time I plan to swing by Mark's place
and try and make sense of all of this. I went out on a limb and
defended him because I believed he had integrity. I was either 100%
wrong about him, or he is in way over his head. If he is in way over
his head we can talk about it and I will offer to help him sort all
this out. I would only have a day to do it and thats assuming I am
well received. But I will do what I can for him and the community.

But I have to ask myself why others have not offered to do the same?
A lot of people around here talk the talk of being a community but not
all of them walk the walk. If Mark were in some sort of trouble or
believed to be headed the wrong way, why has no one stepped up and
offered something other then a Paypal dispute?

I mean, I know we all have our own problems to worry about. I know
that he as a businessman should deliver. I know you forked over hard
earned buckage too. But if we are to call ourselves a community,
someone should do something other then complain when things go wrong.
There shouldn't be petty arguments, price bickering, he said she said,
etc. Mark is not fly-by-night and is a collector too. He has been here
a long time doing his part and if something is wrong we should be
trying to help. Thats just my usual unwelcome .02

Take it or leave it, it's the truth.

- Matt
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