I’m selling the business next week so everything is going to change over. I will be making a new account so watch this space for a link.

I am on the last 50 orders now.

Please retweet: Coax cable is arriving on the 9th, all PCBs have been fully stocked to last the next few months. These are PCBs for PS1 cables, they have 3 tantalum capacitors and optional space for a sync stripper on the back (in order to make BNC cables.)

Have just received a batch of Dreamcast PCBs right before tariffs hit. This pcb includes a proper sync combiner that will work on all equipment including BVMs. I recommend people get their orders in before prices have to change.

Please retweet: a huge supply of coax cable is arriving in mid May according to the shipment tracker. Anyone who wants to preorder it before it arrives can get their order in now:

You do save money but you spend more time. I switched to Aliexpress years ago just because I’d rather spend that time soldering. All components are in stock and the tariffs mean I have more than enough already.

In case people aren’t aware Aliexpress means you can click a button pay on PayPal and have it sent to you sans any fuss. Alibaba is business to business, you negotiate price, you have to factor in lead times and you have to set up an iban transfer to pay.

That’s why I’m feeling in a dicey situation and why I panicked about a projected scenario months in the future. I don’t want to be spending too much time going forward on negotiating on Alibaba. That’s why I was using Aliexpress.

Yes I’m irritated by having to negotiate buying connectors and losing all my prior sources of it but this doesn’t mean I don’t have stock to make orders. I already invested probably too much in the last months buying up way more than usual to avoid tariffs.

I don’t presell anything until all components for it are in stock or in the case of cable, at least until it is fully paid for and already in the shipping process. Problem is I tend to panic if I am not certain of things literally months in the future.

I just want to clarify:. I am not actually hurting for money right now- my fears of not being to afford cable months from now were based on projecting cost of everything forward with cost of tariffs. I am also not short of stock. I’m sitting on mountains of it.

Talking to sellers on Alibaba now - it’s all a huge nightmare. I was prepared to pay tariffs on the connectors but if nobody will ship them to me wtf can I do? This is causing extra admin because Alibaba requires you to negotiate every purchase as I’m sure people are aware.

I’m having to scramble to sort this out but if anyone has any alternative to Aliexpress I’d be really grateful. Btw packages from overseas can’t be delivered to the parcel box options I have. Couriers can’t deliver to PO Boxes.

Then pay my estimate on a payment plan but I can’t do that. I have to calculate and file the exact amount. It’s going to cost me the next two days. Most of the bureaucracy involved with all this will be over with this week but it has increased the time taken to do cables.

There is no hiding my business because it takes over an apartment. I have dozens of reels of cable and have to have a dedicated 3D printer room. At any rate I decided to rent premises and hire an employee.

I’ve been a freelancer on games magazines, I’ve worked in support for game localization (my maiden name is in the credits for 3 games that are now considered retro because I am old) and I propped up living in Japan by running a game export business on eBay.

They are quoting me 4 weeks for shipping and I’m sorting out shipping now (yes I know - they’re slow and have strung me along) and I currently have a workload based lead time of 3 weeks that I’m hoping to bring down now I have an employee.

Realized after taking everything apart that that wouldn’t work because it disabled the power button too so put it back together and now it is doing this and no I don’t know what bitlocker is or why my ssd drive is now locked but I’m screwed.

You left him and married someone whose reaction to stress was to shut down and not flip out so you loved them with your whole heart and they tell you after 16 years that you “robbed” their life and it should have been legal to kill you.

Your ex husband beat you for same reason saying he’d never raise a finger against anyone else but he understood why people beat me because I was so intolerable.