 Hey, and welcome back to Retro Tech first off I want to say a special thank you to everybody who entered into the contest here on the video That was for how to make scart to rgbs cables for cheap in the free giveaway I do have all the entries ready and I did respond to anybody who entered with a number and then coming in a couple of days We're gonna have a live show and in that live show I will do a drawing through a random number generator and whoever's number comes up will be the winner of the free Cables that I made in this video and I wanted to do a quick video about this because I got posed a question and Something finally happened basically that I thought was it would happen at some point and It happened today, but it has to do with these cables So naturally I wanted to show people in this video that there was the option always to make these cables these cables Were not anything that is overly complicated There is obviously some work and you do have to have some skill and tools involved So for $40 generally, it's probably a pretty good deal If you just want to buy them and you if you don't have the tools or the knowledge to know how to do it so that was kind of my point to the video that There's also a way that you could save some money make your own cables Or this is what's in the cables because I did specifically buy a set of wookie wins cables A while back and I dissected them to see if there was any difference and the standard ones are not any different than The ones we made in this video now I'm specifically bringing this up because in order to do my research for this video I wanted to make obviously more than one set of these cables So I made quite a few sets honestly I bought enough supplies to make 20 total sets of these cables if I want to now some of them I'm not going to be using I'm not even gonna be making I'm using some of them These extra cables for things like devices to run RGB so that's not even going to be an option and then a lot of the other ones are going for my personal stuff in My setups, but I did have an a surplus I also told patron members that if they wanted to get a set I'd sell them to them for less than what they would cost them To get them on eBay But that did leave me with about five extra sets of these cables that I wanted to offload So I advertised them a little bit on my Facebook page for retro tech and then I've advertised them to just briefly on the Facebook page for broadcast monitor specialists and Then I had made my eBay listing which I have here and I'll show it to you but I had my eBay listing for the cables and once I Basically, here's my listing here. I had them listed the five extra sets I have my five extra sets here for 38 dollars a piece and that was it I wasn't planning on you know going in and just basically to undercut the price I was just planning on going and selling the five leftover I had because really it is quite a bit a lot. I mean it's a lot of work to sit there and make the cables But you know, it's 15 20 minutes of just Soldering work and stripping cables probably could do it in a little bit less time if you've done it enough but anyway My plan was never to be you know fully stock these forever to the general public It was just to sell the leftovers, but I had the listing up there for maybe a day or two I've not even sold a single one of these cables on eBay and I get a new message sent to me and this is from Wookie win and again I Got this message today. It says in the retro gaming community It is generally frowned upon to sell knockoffs of other people's products, you know, I Hadn't had a single contact with this person. Nothing. So At first I kind of got a little bit, you know Naturally my human instincts made me get a little bit of set because I was just I was just kind of seeing things from my perspective where I'm trying to just show people that some of these products are Easily made on your own, but that also of course is going to affect directly Wookie wins sales rights because he's the one who's been making them But my problem, you know, of course was the response right away without even you know reaching out and let me know anything But again, I didn't really know what I was going to be expecting because I was making something that somebody's been making money off of for Years and I was showing how to make them and not only that you know He's probably concerned that he's got some competition selling his product which at the just the immediate, you know, right now Yes, but I'm not planning on keeping this add up for this eBay I just want to run out of these extras to be honest with you and then I won't be Constantly selling them on eBay. I might provide some to any patreon member who wants some where I will sell them with any Restored monitor, but I just wanted to you know kind of show you That even if you just put these things out because again this this this guy He it's it's kind of a little bit of an interesting situation This is a good point, you know, and it is generally frowned upon to sell knockoffs of other people's products The problem is is he doesn't sell a specific product that's really anything Specific enough I feel like to make a complaint. I mean just for an example here. This is on another website This is retro gaming cables and they have they make all kinds of gaming cables have for years And he's got the same exact adapter here. It's the same pinout inside The only difference is instead of the gray cable. He's decided to use or this cable manufacturers decided to use a black cable So what am I supposed to say that you know, Wookie? When did he copy this first this design or did they copy his design? So this is really not An applicable product and again, I'm not going to jump down in the weeds directly with Somebody like him because I really don't have any gain to just get here and back and forth Try to justify a point of view to him when obviously from his point of view He's directly going to be losing sales from this But the bad thing he does instead of reaching out to me and talking to me maybe about what other things he offers with His products that are better than just the simple version that I made He came right in and assumed that I was coming in selling stuff and being an immediate competitor and almost used like a kind of a I mean, it's it's a very light kind of Lightly aggressive Tactic to get me to not sell it by saying, you know, it's frowned upon but again This is not a unique product this guy's there's nothing really that unique about what he's made I kind of prove that in the video. It's all eBay parts that you can buy specifically on eBay. So anyway, I wanted to make this video to kind of just pose a question to you guys is this a valid question is Again, I feel like it is for some stuff if it was something that was proprietary but even in something like RGB mods for example the Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 have numerous RGB mods available that are made by different people They all are slightly different a lot of them are exactly the same Does that make one person like bad for selling it and another person because another person claims They were selling it first or if you have extras of a product that you made Do you feel like you should be basically harassed for just trying to offload them? I mean naturally, I don't think you should be done like that But if you were copying something that was something put somebody put a lot of time It was very specific it was patented technology and you tried to copy that and yeah, that's that's just not right But again, I just wanted to kind of bring up this conversation and see if you had any opinion on it Please leave me a comment below Because I'd really love to know What you think and then I wanted to kind of bring one more quick question in closing here and it's kind of going back to the whole community of retro gaming and Unfortunately, this is not the first type of reaction like this You know for something like this again, this is I feel like eBay is way fair game So this is not this the the comment might be good, but it's it's not really the appropriate Channels to be placing it in but again is this this brings up another question. Is there? Is there a bit of arrogance like to some of the stuff in this community? I bet I don't want to Have to be calling anybody out specifically and I'm not going to do that right now. I just want to make it You know clear that It's not it's not gonna be welcoming to anybody that's newly stumbling upon retro gaming and wants to get into it if we're kind of always Defending our little corner of what we might do specifically important we need to kind of get over that I feel and more do more of a better job of coming together and Not not portraying. I mean I understand maybe some of it's like You know with like wrestling for example, maybe it's like a a persona that some people are putting on for YouTube You never can tell but I want to just let people if you have if you think that there's Anything going on where maybe some other People are just arrogant with the way that they are act like kind of like gatekeepers to a lot of this stuff that has to do with retro gaming whether it's information or Parts or anything else. I Really want us to try to rise above this and and we could do better for all of ourselves if we could work off each other and kind of Do better to work together in in some instances then rather always again Be in defensive about the one little corner that each of us have on either YouTube or online or any kind of You know sales presence online anything we would do much better if we could we'll get together and communicate common goals that Should be pretty much common for the entire kind of industry because it's it's unfortunate It's the good thing and the bad thing about the other days. It's wide open anybody can help contribute But my consider or my concern is that when people act like gatekeepers and Can be a little bit arrogant and again? I'm not calling out anybody specifically because I don't even want to call out Wookiee when I don't feel like that's what I'm trying to say here I'm just wanting to say that overall if you if you feel like you know try to avoid that as best we can we need to try to work together and Do what we can to make people feel welcome in this community and realize that it's really just about having fun playing video games on some of the sweetest displays that we can find and Really just not trying to gouge everybody for like every penny that we could get out of them all the time so anyway, that's the kind of end of this rant and Again, I'll have information coming on the live Stream that we'll be doing soon where we be giving away that set of cables I appreciate buddy everybody for subscribing and leaving a comment because again, that's how really I get to know anything is by Interacting directly with you. I know I'm not the only one that feels this way, but If I'm overreacting to hey, you're welcome to leave a comment and let me know But I just hope that we can all you know do a little bit better to leave like a positive impact on our portion of the Community, but that's again it for my soapbox today. Thank you again for watching and I'll see you next time with some more retro content