Then I splashed out for the Chewits game. Now there's some commercial nostalgia. I already have the KP Skips one and will enjoy one more little curio on the pile.
For the price, they're lovely and do just the job for one or two instruments with no inbuilt system. Outside recording or any proper job, they're all you need. And they look the part too.
They're very handy for when you need a boxful for whatever turns up. But back in the day, you'd get killed in the rush for such trinkets had they been around so cheap at the Millennium. Even with the new £10 sound cards, you still had to fit them and hope the driver wouldn't play up.
Re: Reaping the Ebay harvest
Posted: 20/06/2014 - 20:07
by Chris Abbott
I honestly don't know how anyone makes money off this stuff.
Re: Reaping the Ebay harvest
Posted: 20/06/2014 - 20:35
by Commie_User
From what I gather, it's a combo of ultra-cheap miniaturisation, vast output quantity, dirt-cheap workforces, exchange rate benefits and threadbare industrial rights legislation in the Far East. And the Internet for that humungous low-cost marketplace. Stack 'em up high and cheaply enough and even selling for crumbs can put you in the lolly.
Especially these days, when progress means even these trinkets can be of solid, serviceable quality. I have an S-VIDEO-to-VGA box I bought for a tenner, in good quality with plenty of controls. This is an improved version of what I paid £30 for just two years back. Just gasp at that price-performance ratio, even if the makers are miserable and work 18 hour days.
