I guess someone complained and I had my pics removed. I guess there are some people in this world that can't get things done and don't want others to either...
Yes, but just make them anyway. You'll sell the other nine or whatever really easily on the EE. There is no set definition as to what is a dealer and what is not, some people are selling off their massive collections, does that mean they are dealers? So get your adapters made and sell all the rest you don't need.
Don't let the big boys dissuade you. Just because it says "dealer" under their user name, doesn't mean they can bully you around. No one says you have to suffer with excess stock adapters cluttering your house. You can sell them/give them away/recoup your losses, that's what the EE is for.
Yeah, maybe some of the dealers are trying to get their **** squared away and make a similar product, and while they are twiddling their thumbs you've lost patience and had something done bespoke, but it is the fault of the manufacturer for not providing you with what you want, and thus you can sell off any excess that resulted from creating what you actually want.
Basically, the manufacturers are not taping into that market with a specific product. You go and get the product made for you to your requirements. This product is not on the market, no one is exploiting it's market niche, or else you would have just purchased one. You can sell any excess. You are not competing with the manufactures, as they don't make that product, and thus they should sit down and shut up, because they had their chance to bring that product to the market, and they will have their chance to bring that product to the market later. The dealers have not lost anything they were not losing in the first place.
Of course, if you want to sell these adapters forever, meaning that when they are sold out, you get more made, then you should become a dealer, as you are taking away from the established dealers a part of the market that they might finally get their act together into exploiting (in an epoch or two).
Summary:
One time thing due to minimal order quantity requirements, once they are out of stock, too bad:
OK
Forever, this is your product, you can get many made if these sell:
Bad, get dealer status first.
And remember, it is always easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission.
(Just watch me get an infraction for some "assisting others in circumventing the rules (when it's actually all about the money)" bullocks for this posting.)