Everdrive/Flashback carts for NES and SNES

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Megatron:

--- Quote from: StoneAgeGamer on May 08, 2014, 11:51:59 AM ---
--- Quote from: Megatron on May 08, 2014, 09:14:34 AM ---Shop around. Some sites are cheaper than others. I love Stoneage Game as a site, but their Everdrive N8 is $150 with cart, label, UGC etc. I paid $124 for mine with cart and label. While not a huge difference, when buying multiple flash carts it can really add up. Also, other sites have more stock. For instance, some of the bigger sites are sold out of N8 right now. The site I got mine from is still well stocked in pretty much everything.
Some examples: SD2NES is $205 with shell and label, Everdrive N64 V2 is $114 with cart and label, etc. Basically take whatever price is listed, and add $15 for cart and label. Shipping (for me) has been
$5 each time. Not sure if it's just because of where I live, or flat rate.

I don't think I can put the site here, so if you want it PM me.
Also, I am in no way affiliated with any site, I just like getting the best deal I can.

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Thanks for the love.

I just want to say in our defense you are comparing two different quality products. Deluxe Edition normally is higher quality than most of our competitors offerings. Also, we don't have many Cart Only options available which is really what most of the competition offers besides just the board. This is something that should change soon once we have our CNC machine doing all of our shell cutting. Our cart only prices should be pretty close to our competitors. I understand that many people could careless about a Deluxe Edition, but since we couldn't even make them fast enough to keep up with stock it made no sense at the time to make a Cart Only. Having the CNC machine will allow us to cut a years worth of shells in a few week. This should allow us to meet demand, assuming KRIKzz can pump out boards fast enough. :)

Also if you are looking for Board Only, I believe we are the only site that gives you a free label with them and our prices are inline with the manufacturer still.

Other sites don't technically have more stock (except for maybe the manufacturer). Its just that we sell them that quickly and we if KRIKzz can't make them fast enough we are stuck waiting for more. Just to give you an idea we buy about $20K+ (that's wholesale) worth of EverDrives a month at. I only say this to kind of defend ourselves, we always have people saying we don't have a lot of stock, its just that we can't get them fast enough in a lot of cases. Especially the more popular or newer ones. Trust me, its not like we don't want to sell more.

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Hey, don't misunderstand me - I agree completely. I have been a Stoneage buyer since late 2010 (when reviewtech USA did the Megadrive review). I have purchased many products from you over the years (including the Megadrive) but, as you said, there isn't currently a middle of the road option - which is what I usually look for. There are still lots of everdrives I plan to get and look forward to you guys getting the CNC machine. But at the same time, if you only offer Luxury Cars, you can't blame people for looking elsewhere for economy.

StoneAgeGamer:

--- Quote from: Megatron on May 08, 2014, 12:12:34 PM ---But at the same time, if you only offer Luxury Cars, you can't blame people for looking elsewhere for economy.

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Completely agree and I have never held it against anyone. This is a huge reason why we bought a CNC machine. Trying to move from a hand-built Rolls Royce to a more assembly line made cars. Like I said two reasons why we didn't make Cart Only options for most of them was because of demand of Deluxe and also profit margin. Obviously profit margin (%-wise) is higher on the Deluxe. Cutting the shells was a huge part of the work, if we can eliminate that it will eliminate that part of the labor, plus the cuts will be cleaner and more accurate. Some of the sample cuts we have done so far have been very nice, almost like the plastic came molded that way.

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