Capture Board Updates

[loopy]

Good that they are still going to continue, I hope they get a good number of units because they are going to run out. By the way, do we have to send the 3ds or can we even buy one with the capture card installed?

You need to send it in.

I'm not going to do premodded systems for old 3DS. It's a hassle, too many options (what color? region? condition?) I have to hunt them down on ebay and hope someone wants what I find. If you don't have a 3DS, just order what you want and have it shipped to me directly ... it'd probably end up cheaper for you that way anyway.

I think if it would be better to send it to him, because it would be more work for you to buy one and it is cheaper for us because we also have to pay for the console, right? By the way if we send you the 3ds, what should the shipment contain?

For comparison - I sell premodded DSes $60 more than installations.
Looking at all of last year, my average cost from eBay was $34. I have to be more selective about what I buy (don't want to deal with returns for stuck pixels, too many scratches, etc. Some people care about those things). You can easily find better deals if you're patient and flexible on what condition it's in.

Send just the 3DS, and a copy of the receipt (or at least a note with your name / address on it) so I know it's yours.
If it's shipping from somewhere else, give me a tracking number.

[Mouse]

You need to send it in.

I'm not going to do premodded systems for old 3DS. It's a hassle, too many options (what color? region? condition?) I have to hunt them down on ebay and hope someone wants what I find. If you don't have a 3DS, just order what you want and have it shipped to me directly ... it'd probably end up cheaper for you that way anyway.

I think if it would be better to send it to him, because it would be more work for you to buy one and it is cheaper for us because we also have to pay for the console, right? By the way if we send you the 3ds, what should the shipment contain?

For comparison - I sell premodded DSes $60 more than installations.
Looking at all of last year, my average cost from eBay was $34. I have to be more selective about what I buy (don't want to deal with returns for stuck pixels, too many scratches, etc. Some people care about those things). You can easily find better deals if you're patient and flexible on what condition it's in.

Send just the 3DS, and a copy of the receipt (or at least a note with your name / address on it) so I know it's yours.
If it's shipping from somewhere else, give me a tracking number.

Is the shipping code sent to you by message?

[loopy]

Email me, or message me here.

[Mouse]

Email me, or message me here.

OK thank you very much. I will wait patiently for your 3ds batch with grabber. Good luck

[NeedsZeebs]

Email me, or message me here.

Was there a restock I missed? Sorry I just got a load of notifications in. I'm sitting here with an OG DS I've been keeping to send to you for almost a year now lol. I check every day to see if your OG boards come back in stock. Hope I didn't miss one!

[natecc]

You haven’t missed any stock. Some are suggesting that he’s trying to get a bunch of old ds’ for the preinstalled units or he just doesn’t have spare time to deal with all of the orders. We don’t really know what was going on since there was a chance that they’d be up last Monday. All we can do is wait until there’s an update really

[NeedsZeebs]

OK, good. Thanks for the reply. Wish I could just send him my DS and call it a day lol.

I've been thinking about this a lot... Loopy and Merki pretty much have a monopoly on the market for DS capture cards AND the demand is ridiculously high. With streaming and YouTube continuously growing in popularity and user base, this will surely only grow more and more. Obviously the workload is a lot for any one or few people to be taking on... So is there a reason why people haven't gotten together and started a company? I know Nintendo can be kinda annoying when it comes to stuff like this (they really only started letting people post their games on platforms like YouTube fairly recently), but I mean to me something like Elgato, but for the DS seems like such a good idea. I'm not a businessman (or student), but the market for this is absolutely BOOMING and it just seems like it's just sitting around waiting to be picked up. From the outside looking in DS capture cards doesn't seem like a huge money pot, but I mean from the inside it does to me lol. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would apply and be happy to work making DS boards or handling the shipping/ finances and stuff. Loopy could stay managing the North American side of things and Merki in Europe? Again I'm not business savvy, so maybe there's something brutally obvious I'm missing, but I thought it would be worth talking about.