I won one of these things on eBay a couple weeks ago for a tidy sum. I received it quickly, but the joystick is stiff and unresponsive. I opened it up for a look and tried to see if I could loosen a nut or something, but the way that the stick apparatus is assembled doesn't allow you to loosen anything (there's a snug rubber piece that seems to be causing the stiffness, but it's set in there and can't be moved). I tried spritzing a bit of WD-40 in the edges to try and lubricate it just a bit (it didn't hurt anything, but didn't help much either). Was this kind of stiffness typical for this particular joystick? Were they all like this? I'm pretty disappointed, but don't want to give up on it just yet. For something so rare and expensive, I sure expected a much better quality controller. You can use it, but it's a chore.