$140 for some unnecessary crap? People are really stupid.
So....people are stupid, because they might like to get something that someone else feels is unnecessary? Hmmm....
Well, guess I'm stupid then. I just don't see how you feel I'm stupid because I choose to buy that package deal. But what do I know.... 
I'm kind of surprised at your reaction, Bernie. With all the information presented, you don't agree his price is highly questionable?? I wanted this version too, it looks great, and I waited to see what the price was gonna be, but $139.99 is a plain rip-off given what we know... I'd go as far as using outrageous... Little things have already annoyed me like krikzz pricing the regular one at $79.00 (the engineer that made it!) and this guy pricing it at $79.99 for that extra little dollar and playing that one-penny-less bullshit most US retailers play so as not to list a solid, even price ($80 in this case)... I f*cking hate that shit... He didn't spend the thousands of hours to design and build the thing, and he got to buy them in bulk, wholesale, much cheaper, but he deserves an extra dollar for some reason or so he thinks...
The other annoyance is that $8 charge for a cheap ass, 2GB microSD (class 4) card... I can get a
2GB for $3 bucks retail, so that's a shit price right there, but at least that's selectable and thus avoidable... For $7 bucks you can get a 4GB class 10 card (faster write speed 10MB/s) at a minimum... Twice the memory and TWICE the speed for his shit price, see a pattern here ?? (
Problem with this point though is that krikzz is doing it also, but again, at least it's an optional purchase and in his case, he's the guy that sacrificed thousands of hours to create the thing - more forgivable.).
You aren't being exploited. You have a choice. Obviously some will choose to buy the naked board, and that's fine. But some may like the look and not mind paying the extra for eye candy. I just happen to be one of them. I'd rather just pay someone else to make it look all pretty, than attempt to do it myself.
Yeah, he has the choice to set his price, and the public has a choice to buy from him or not, but the public also has the choice to criticize (or praise) his "pricing" as is being done here! I hope he IS catching some shit for that price and it's not all clapping seals just patting him on the back, telling him what a great deal it is!
You've taken part in the Gouging thread where profiteering/greed/gouging is criticized all the time, you don't see that here with this guy ?? Not gouging, but definitely greed/profiteering ?
No, people are stupid if they think it's reasonable to spend $60 on paper, plastic and a sticker.
Nail on the head, that's pretty much all he did and raised the price of the product by f*cking 76%! f*ck this guy! You think of the thousands of hours krikzz spent as a hardware and software engineer to make this flash cart possible, the best and only one you'll ever need, and this guy comes along with nothing more than an appearance tweak, a case, a manual, etc. and asks for a ridiculous markup like he did some serious heavy lifting which is nowhere near as comparable to what krikzz had to go through to create the thing or ever could be!!!!
f*ck this guy! I was hoping for a total price of maybe around $100 or something (max, maybe $110 barely), but hell no, he's not getting my money; I'm gonna settle on the plain one and I think I might use some hot glue to coat it with for protection. I wonder if hot glue sticks come in black, all I got is standard transparent ones. That would work nice.
http://stoneagegamer.com/turboeverdrive_deluxe.aspxTurbo EverDrive Cart (rev. 1.1)
Individually Numbered
Coated in clear conformal coat and black epoxy enamel to prevent dust, moisture and static shock
Semi-transprent smoke black shell
Color label
Held together with 4 gold plated screws
I mean, what the f*ck ? Gold-plated ? WHY ? Something wrong with plain ole brass ?? They're just f*cking screws!! Oh right, we can charge more noting that they're plated with gold for the "serious" gamer out there... A flashcart in Gangnam Style right here (
that whacky song is partly a criticism of the excesses of the wealthy). Heh. That's not even a positive when you're dealing with RCA jacks and cables because plain ole copper is the better, cheaper conductor, while silver is the best, though not as cheap as copper. I dunno why they do it, maybe because it takes longer for it to tarnish or something... Anyway, wow, gold-plated screws... I would not have thought of that...
*shakes fist*
Screw this guy!!! 
FIRMWARE PATCHEDIT: Well, I had been concerned about this firmware coupon bullshit of his, but I just learned that firmware upgrades are as simple as downloading a file called "tos.pce" from krikzz's website, copying it to your microSD card, plugging it back into the flashcart, and loading tos.pce from the boot menu like a regular ROM file. One year coupon bullshit or not from SAG, that's how you do it in this case! And there is a patch you'll need if you wanna fix a problem that prevents like more than two pages or more of ROM files from appearing due to a bug in the FAT32 code. If you have hundreds of ROM files, after 2 pages in the menu, they won't show up without this patch or so:
http://krikzz.com/pub/support/index.php?dir=turbo-ed%2Fos%2Fv2Reference:
http://krikzz.com/forum/index.php?topic=41.msg387#msg387In trying to understand where this coupon business originated from, basically, you had to send the unit back to him to let him do the upgrade because of special hardware requirements in the case of the EverDrive64.
http://stoneagegamer.com/everdrive64_firmware_update.aspxDoing it yourself required you to have the following:
Altera USB Blaster (whatever that is), a
10-pin header (
),
Altera Quartus II software, and a Nintendo 64... krikzz obviously got a little better in his methods for patching/upgrading the firmware/OS so having to send the flashcart back to SAG and hoping your coupon didn't expire (resulting in having to pay him to do it) is not a concern with most any other krikzz flashcart... Anyhow, in SAG's defense, when it comes to the EverDrive64, that makes sense, you gotta ship it to him, he does it, and he has to pay to ship it back to you, etc. But why the coupon business for the other carts with no special hardware and software requirements for the upgrade ? For those that are complete idiots ?? For the Turbo EverDrive, the process is the same as saving a ROM file to your microSD, which you gotta learn how to do to even use the damn thing... =\ In general, it strikes me as not being in his interest to clearly inform you of how simple it is to do it yourself because rather than mentioning "firmware upgrade voucher" it should just say to check krikzz's support section for an upgrade file if available, etc....
