N3DS progress..

[PokerAgeAH]

The same dude reselling ANOTHER cap card for 7x what they paid...

[triple_lei]

Sounds like we need to put the loopy software + drivers right on the order page.

[loopy]

1. Limit purchases to 1 per user (or even better, 1 purchase per IP / email address )
2. Increase the price of the order items by a little.
3. Have more board installations available this time around compared to the 01/14/2023 up-for-sale boards.

1. A bunch of people have said to limit purchases but that only limits BULK orders which is really not gonna solve the problem as people (especially resellers) can easily use different addresses / emails to receive the product.
(Also when the next boards are up for sale I plan to get 2 so I hope the number is atleast 2 heh)
2. Increasing the price would be feasible but this hurts the average buyer more than then resellers as they can easily pass this price on to who they resell to or based on the recent posts just take a little bit of a hit on the profit.
3. The only downside to this is how much Loopy is willing/can invest as holding product that doesn't sell will cut into his profits.


Someone else suggested preorders which I think can help cutdown on holding unsellable product and I think this is very doable but leaving deposits is always worrisome for some people. This might be true for people who just buy the item to self install but for people who pay for the installation by Loopy this shouldn't be an issue as they have already entrusted their consoles.

The only solution I can think of to slow (not stop) resellers off the top of my head would be a software solution in which the capturing software required an account (preferably one created when buying any Loopy product). Of course there are still loopholes and the added hassle on both sides of the coin but it might curb some resellers out there.

The real solution is to keep them in stock, then all of this is a non-issue.

[PokerAgeAH]

WHO AND WHY

[SciGuy]

WHO AND WHY

To be fair, best offer was accepted. It could have sold for anything.

[GwNnN]

WHO AND WHY

Also with the imminent closure of the eShop I can see some people will scramble to buy up consoles at these prices to get eShop game/software licenses at the last minute. Which at this price still doesn't make sense unless you need the 3DS right now.

[PokerAgeAH]

WHO AND WHY

To be fair, best offer was accepted. It could have sold for anything.

Given that he sold the last one for his asking price of 1200$ im guessing it was at least that. Its still ludicrous

[DestinyDecade]

It is. I still wait for when they are available and when they are, I'm going all in to making my New 3DS XL with a capture board..

[Straunge]

It is. I still wait for when they are available and when they are, I'm going all in to making my New 3DS XL with a capture board..

Same here. I have more than enough soldering and repair experience (used to be a phone repair technician). Ordered a Japanese N3DS XL/LL that I'll hopefully be putting a loopy card in when they get restocked.

[thomasfan1945]

Well, I am going to say rn that it'd be best to mod our 3DSs, after the eShop closure or try to buy physical copies. We honestly can't really do much about the closure, so we'd be best doing this once we have our capture boards.