类型: GB
作者: Oblotzky
发布时间: 2019-03-31 21:02:45
更新时间:
2019-04-01 17:20:51
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=100062.0
The clock has struck midnight in Germany and thus ending
April 1st for myself. With much regret I must inform you
that this was indeed an Aprils fools joke. However it was
not for nothing! While some will probably be upset by this
announcement, there is also a lot of positive that has come
from this thread. The amount of responses vastly exceeded my
expectations, GeekHack saw a 400%+ increases in user
registrations for today. With over 800 posts, of which I
estimate are about 90% “orders” placed, I have now an
astonishing amount of data provided by all of you that I can
use to further fine tune the actual group buy that is still
on track.
I am very sorry if I got your hopes up too
much, this especially goes for the Asian crowd as it appears
April fools day is not really a thing there so we see a lot
of first time posters from Korea and such that genuinely
believed this to be a real group buy. It actually upsets me
a little myself that it isn’t, because after seeing how this
played out over the last 20ish hours, I really wish I could
offer this type of ordering system today, and sorting the
orders sounds like a fun project for my downtime. Maybe
another time?
So with that said, I hope I didn’t upset
anyone too much, it was a very harmless joke that didn’t
cost any individual too much time or resources. I will
continue my efforts to delivering a great 2nd version of
this set that is due to ACTUALLY HAPPEN in a few months on
Massdrop. The interest check over here:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=99174.0
will continue as before while this thread will be closed. I
hope moderates will allow it to remain visible to the public
for some more time, while I also gather the invaluable data
that I wish to analyze and present in the IC later this
week. Hopefully this data can settle some debates such as
Git vs Regular mods
Thank you everyone for participating, especially to
the GH mod team for allowing me to run this on the GB
forums. I hope you have a great week!
Hello all!
I am very thankful for the highly
active and productive interest check for this version of the
set, so without further ado, let’s get to the fun part,
shopping!
This time, I’ll be doing things a little
different, and taking some inspiration from 7bit over at
DeskThority to run this set again. During the interest
check, I’ve come to the conclusion that this set/colorway is
too versatile for the kit constraints of a regular GMK group
buy, even on Massdrop. Dual alpha colors, three different
modifier themes, it’s a nightmare to design so I had to
ditch the old methods completely and use a different
approach. The main reason for big GMK kits is that factory
sorting is expensive, and for each new kit you introduce,
prices rise, and each kit also comes with a high MOQ on top
of that. Compare that with SP group buys where quantities
can start at 25 units, it’s very hard to find the right
balance between price and compatibility. However, this can
be solved easily, by moving the sorting from factory, to my
living room! Instead of buying X of this kit, and Y of that
kit, I will instead be purchasing each individual key for
the given MOQ, and from there assemble the ordered kits from
you all. Now, not every base kit has to reach 250+ units,
but rather the 2.25u Return key has to reach 250, the gray
letter Q has to reach 250, the blue 1.25u Control key has to
reach 250 units, and so on. I hope that makes sense!
Additionally, this means you can tailor the kit much more to
your desired layout and save a lot of keys and thus money in
the process.
I have dedicated a lot of time to this
project already, and will further devote a lot more to make
right by this set. I am very much aware of how much manual
labor this will require on my part, but I am happy to do it,
and have made sure that this time will be available to me
once the order has arrived.
So let’s continue this with
a Q&A to guide you through the process of how this will
work:
Q: What are your previous experiences for doing
group buys?
A: I handled 100+ orders for a Kin switch
film GB in Winter 2017. In summer 2018, I shipped out about
20 orders of the private SA Nautilus group buy. I also
handled finances for both of these.
Q: What’s the MOQ
for this set?
A: Each individual key has it’s own MOQ,
rather than every kit. Most keys have an MOQ of 250, except:
LAYOUTS & ISO related keys have a MOQ of 50, SPACEKEYS
are 100, ASSEMBLY MODIFIERS are 150. I have added some
cushion to the pricing too to allow me to buy out keys that
might be struggling.
Q: What’s the price?
A: Each
key is 0.8 EUR, apart from Spacebars which are 3 EUR and ISO
RETURN keys that are 2 EUR. There are no price breaks for
higher quantities.
Q: How much is shipping?
A:
Shipping is 5 EUR for Germany (includes 500 EUR insurance,
if you order more than that I’ll charge some more according
to DHL shipping rates), everything else is flat 10 EUR + 2
EUR per 100 EUR purchase value for insurance. So for example
a 240 EUR order would be 10 EUR + 6 EUR for insurance, so 16
EUR total.
Q: Where are you shipping from?
A:
♪Deutschland, du hast viel geweint.♪
Q: Are there any
proxies?
A: No, due to doing the sorting myself, I
can’t expect that for a vendor to do as well. The
international shipping rates are pretty good IMO, any
savings would be countered by another party taking a cut for
their time&resources.
Q: How do I pay?
A: Only
PayPal is accepted, this information will be collected once
the group buy has concluded. I wish to record as little
personal information as possible when it is not yet
needed.
Q: How do I tell you my address?
A: For
both ease and PayPal protection, I will ship to the address
given to me by PayPal when you pay your invoice.
Q:
When will you ship?
A: This is a more complicated
answer as I am stepping into unknown territory. The order
will be placed once the group buy has concluded and the
invoices have been paid. From there, it is about 16 weeks
for GMK to produce the keys. Shipping to me is 2 working
days since I live in the same country as they operate in.
Once the order is received, I will go straight into sorting
mode and send out orders in batches. I will treat this as a
full-time job (for which I have the time!).
Q: How will
you ship?
A: Since this set won’t have any factory
trays, I will instead be shrink wrapping the kits to protect
them during transit. All orders will be shipped in cardboard
boxes.
Q: How do I order?
A: This is quite simple:
reply to this thread! Just paste one kit name per line into
your reply, you can copy&paste them from the code blocks
so you won’t need to write them down and risk spelling
mistakes. If you wish to purchase more than one of a kit,
add a space at the end and then the quantity. If no quantity
is specified, the default is 1. For example:
Quote
from: Oblotzky OBLIVIONV2_BASE_REGULAR_OBLIVION
OBLIVIONV2_MODIFIERS_HHKB_MONOCHROME
OBLIVIONV2_ALPHAS_HAGOROMOCADET_700
2
OBLIVIONV2_NUMPAD_GIT_HAGOROMO
You can edit your
order at any time, PLEASE DO NOT ORDER VIA MULTIPLE POSTS.
Simply edit your post to reflect your current wants, the
first post of yours is the one that is analyzed to generate
your order. If you start by asking something or leaving just
a comment but wish to order later on, also just edit your
FIRST POST and put the order at the top of it. Once the
group buy is closed, I will lock this thread with its
replies for a day or two to gather the data to feed into my
script and then unlock it again for further discussion and
updates. Any changes after that will have no affect on your
order.
Q: When will the group buy end?
A: I plan
to end the group buy at the end of the month. I will give a
specific date and time (with timezone) once we get closer to
that.
That’s it! If you need any help or have any
questions for me, please do not hesitate to reply!
Should
I be needing to make changes (e.g. error in kit, or I
calculated the wrong price for a kit, I will post these
changes in the third post of this thread).
Thank you
everyone for your time!
Oh and one last thing: to
encourage joining early to boost MOQ and morale etc, I am
offering a 10% DISCOUNT on all REPLIES posted within the
first 24 hours of this group buy going live. You can still
edit your order later on, the time of when the reply was
created matters, not when it was last edited.