True, considering how much I seen people spend on a single arcade stick.
$400 including shipping and taxes. FML.
Tell me about it. I didn’t realize how much I’ve spent on my last stick until I started tallying everything. 165 for the case, 15 for the artwork, 30 for buttons, 0 for JLF (taken from a parted TE Round 1), 30 for the JLF link, 30 custom painted balltop, 30 for neutrik and 0 for all the internal wiring (also taken from the parted parted RD1).
It’s not the 400+ you quoted and the cost could have easily been more if I didn’t have the extra parts already laying around but for all that trouble I could have easily bought 2-3 sticks.