This thread is to announce that Satek and I have recently opened up a new website featuring budget arcade stick cases.
Starting at only $25 + S/H our cases will be perfect for newer players who are just getting into the scene but want to try the ‘custom’ route, as well as people looking for an inexpensive case that they can get in their hands quickly and easily.
We currently offer three styles of cases as shown below.
-A Sanwa slim profile plexiglass DIY case made of MDF.
-The DIY case, which is an unfinished MDF box ready for priming and painting.
-A finished case which is stained and clearcoated and ready to go.
pretty awesome looking stuff. will the sanwa ready cases be $25 too? i assume that’s a pipe dream as they’re made with nicer wood and not MDF. and will there be an MDF sanwa version too? or just the separate designs/cutouts.
The $25 price is for the Happ style case (there will be a few styles of that available, starting at $25).
The Sanwa case will still be a very good deal, trust me :tup: . Especially considering it will be finished and ready to go when you buy it (not a DIY like the Happ style).
A DIY MDF Sanwa case is a possibility, but we haven’t decided anything on that yet.
Just some history for you and your friend lucky. About 3 to 4 years ago, there was some guy selling cases like yourself. He called his enterprize, QCF (quarter circle forward) just like you guys. In a month to 2 month time period, he established himself as a reputable seller. After that he took many orders and started saying that the demand was so high the orders would be slightly delayed. Long story short, he wound up taking the money of a lot of srk folk and never giving them a stick. He ripped them off. Whats the point of my story? You guys should change your name in order to avoid confusion and getting bad rep for no reason.
Thanks a lot KOAB, it’d be great to get pictures when you’re done with them.
No, I’m sorry to say that the Sanwa cases will not be that cheap, especially since they are already stained and clearcoated. The pictures shown actually make them look worst, however, the new batch should be better.
Ah, that’s is terrible news. Had I known about this, Lucky and I would’ve chose a different name. I guess it’s a pretty common name. We are combating this by only selling cases that we have in stock, not taking orders and then making them. This way, there shouldn’t be a problem. (Also, there is Paypal dispute, which buyers always win if nothing is shipped.) I have no intention of stealing money.
Thanks for letting us know, unfortunately with the domain purchased and site designed changing the name at the moment isn’t an option.
We hope that by filling orders in a timely fashion, and keeping an open line of communication with everyone here via this thread people will see that we have no connection to any site that may have existed before.
If it becomes a real problem in the future, we may consider changing it, but who knows.
As a side note, I just checked and that other guy’s old site looks terrible. I really hope that my design work is a little more appealing, lol.
I appreciate the head’s up though.
Guys, we would love to get finished pictures when you get around to completing your sticks.
In about a week the site will have an online form where you can submit your completed works for display in the custom gallery.
For the time being, if you pm me the pics I will get them up on the site.
Yeah, I got ripped off by QCF a good while back. That’s why I ended up making my own cases. If that’s not you, than I wish you luck, but that name has a pretty big stigma attached to it around here for people that have been around a while.
But if it helps I did some research and the old QCF guy was from Baltimore and is about 34 years old.
Our sticks will be built in Texas, and trust me, we’re much younger than that :wgrin:
We will definately live up to our promises.
The internal clearance will be about 2.6" to 2.75". I would assume since a Happ stick fits fine in the old case that a P360 will fit in the new (since you say it’s about a .5" difference, and that’s the difference in the cases).
But we will make sure we take care of you if there are any problems.