10 Feb
2007
10 Feb
'07
7:45 p.m.
I've finally decided to go ahead and start making MMJ cables again
after all.
The seller who has been giving me trouble has given me several reasons to
go ahead and compete. First off, his last email to me was this:
Ha Ha I didn't copy YOUR idea. You're so
vain.
Anyway, it doesn't matter what you say or think about me. I used to
like Texans before this experience. Well, I like Bush.
Well, good luck I wish you the best.
...he then bid on one of my adapter kits to try scare away other bidders.
I did cancel his bid and added his username to my BBL. Another bidder
bought the kit, so I didn't even lose a sale over that. I also suspect he
wanted to see how I had them wired, though I flat out old him to look up
the DEC pinout.
He bought a 1000ft spool of genuine decconnect cable off of eBay a month
or so back, and after he started emailing me and then bid on my adapter
kit, I've decided I'd like to compete with this guy head on. If someone
has a spool of such cable laying around and wants to part with it, please
let me know. I tried going after a lot of 10 50ft cables a few weeks ago
so I could use their cable to make shorter/more useful cables, but a DEC
reseller nabbed them ;P
Most recently the guy who started copying my adapter kits has changed his
listings for the MMJ cables he is making after my initial post/rant here
on classiccmp:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130075722308
Digital Equipment Corporation DEC BC16E 10 feet long
DECconnect Office
Cable. Made from a spool of genuine, authentic, high quality DECconnect
Office Cable and MMJ offset style plugs. The MMJ plugs are high quality
and commercially available.
The crimps are carefully made and thoroughly tested. I would never sell
a cable that did not work.
Note that once I purchased a crimping tool from an eBayer. That tool
did not work properly and that eBayer later admitted that he sold me a
cheap tool. That particular tool has not been used in making any of my
cables sold on eBay. I now use a high quality crimping tool purchased
from a reputable supplier!
This cable has never been used before other than to test it to make sure
it works. Tested on a DEC Alpha and VAX. Will work the same for any DEC
machine.
This is a high quality cable that is tested and working. It is made
from DEC branded cable, not from a third party cable such as Graybar, etc.
Not like I believe him, especially as this only appeared after my posts...
-Toth