are they meant to be selling retropie?

herb_fargus

@peanutwarrior no. What they are doing is illegal. Greedy scumbags.

red2blue

Actually it's not illegal. Dependin on what emulators they are selling however could be illegal.

herb_fargus

@red2blue selling other company's copyrighted IP is definitely illegal.

peanutwarrior

@herb_fargus I posted a comment as quite a few people were being sucked into thinking over 200 pounds for nothing more than a pi in an old console case, with a retropie image taken off the internet was a good deal. They blocked me.

herb_fargus

@peanutwarrior I'd say I'm shocked. But I'm not. These people know what they are doing is wrong but unfortunately Facebook cares more about their cut than the law unless of course they are legally threatened.

We might have a little more recourse once trademarks are finalised but until then best we can do is educate people to not be taken advantage of by greedy dirtbags.

peanutwarrior

@herb_fargus I reported them to ebay as they are selling them there also as complete builds £260 for a pi with your image on with all games. Greedy people indeed

barrymossel

Slightly off-topic, but was wondering: what if I build an arcade machine and sell it (incl. RetroPie) when I get bored with it (or, more likely, when my wife wants it out of the house), how "legal" would that be? :)

spruce_m00se

A well modded console would be worth some money even without the software, take a snes case, they easily run 50 USD on ebay, add a couple of decent controllers, a pi3 with power supply and an sd card and you are looking at money, its not like what they are doing is selling a pre made sd card with games on it for 200 GBP.

but the level of decency of their mods remains to be seen. one pic shows a SNES with the controller ports removed and the cables for the controllers just passed through the holes!

Peoples time is worth money, so modding a console could be worth 50 - 100 GBP, depending on how long it takes,

but people need to find a way to sell these types of systems without selling the software, the roms and emulators. I doubt anyone would buy it if they had to go through the headache of installing roms and emus though.

phulshof

Well, I guess that's indeed the main reason people go for these things. It takes an enormous amount of time getting everything together, and not everybody enjoys doing that sort of thing, and some may not even have the bandwidth available to do so even if they could figure it out. RetroPie by itself is a huge step in the right direction, but we all know it that it only starts from there.

A Former User

Here we go.... yet another person signed up to the forum for the sole purpose of making a single thread about sellers of retropie devices...

Obvious seller trying to get people to take out his competition.

Yes the website is illegal, and guess what, your post to his website is also illegal and not wanted on this forum, where It's an offence to link to illegal website.

We have already lost nintendo from just about every emulation website, keep up the good work guys!

red2blue

@herb_fargus Depends on the license of the Emulators, roms defnitely are illegal but GPL Licenses you are allowed to sell.

herb_fargus

@red2blue the retropie image includes many emulators that have non commercial licences.

Xeon

@herb_fargus

I request they have a trail by zombie apocalypse.

peanutwarrior

@kilopie I am not a seller, I had his post appear as a recommendation on facebook amongst other junk facebook seem to sneak in. I was annoyed people on the comments were being sucked in that's all and wanted others to know this crook is about. So next time consider geniune people on here might actually look out for people who work hard on retropie. You pratt!!

simonster

I discussed this company a few months ago, https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9715/another-person-selling-retropie-pixel-arcades

peanutwarrior

@simonster didn't see it, my bad. Only popped up on fb few days ago thought was a new start up