类型: GB
作者: hippo008
发布时间: 2015-12-20 22:43:34
更新时间:
2015-12-29 14:26:31
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=77999.0
Dusk.
An elegant, simple, dark themed keyset in Signature Plastics
SA profile. I hope you like it!
Firstly Id like to say
thank you to everybody who was interested in this set as it
stands. Ive had quite a few orders, just about 70 kits so
far, and thats awesome so many of you wanted to get
involved. But I also must say sorry to all of you who put in
your orders. Due to the pretty large backlash from the
community im putting this buy on hold. I will be working
with Harlw and LivingSpeedBump to further refine this set
and the groupbuy process to hopefully have this set be
better liked and accepted by the community here. All orders
as of now will be canceled and the order form is being shut
down. In fairness to everybody involved in this, ill be
moving back to my Interest Check thread to continue
developing this set.
Thanks again everyone who lended a
hand and put in orders. Im hoping to get some updates out
right away.
This wonderful mockup provided by Harlw
Ordering
Information
Link to order form:http://goo.gl/forms/h35ne3zA3G
There are instructions inside the order form on how
to fill out the form. However if you have any additional
questions please ask them here.
The moment this post is
up the buy will be considered live and orders will open.
Orders will close January 8th. Invoices will be due one week
after the orders close on the 15th.
Shipping will be 6$
for two kits or less to the US via USPS flatrate. Anything
more will be bumped up to a medium flatrate box at 12$
Any
person looking to order from outside the US please contact
me via PM. International shipping will be handled on a case
to case basis through DHL.
There is a 50 Minimum Order
Quantity for the Alphas and Mods kits. Under 50 orders for
either kit BOTH kits will not run.
My Business Plan
A
lot of people have been asking for clarity as to how my
business plan is going to work and what have I actually
planned for in terms of buyer safety. For everybody’s
information I thought it would be best to write it all out
here.
I originally wanted to run this buy all by myself
though my home on the South Shore. In my interest check
thread though a lot of people discouraged me from doing
that. A lot of people suggested using PMK or Massdrop as an
alternative not only for my sanity but also buyer protection
and sales. I reached out to both Massdrop and PMK about
doing just that, having this buy run through their
respective sites, months ago now. I unfortunately haven’t
heard anything back form Massdrop and my keyset still hasent
made it out of the “Voting” phase that PMK’s staff uses. Due
to no retailers expressing any interest I decided to plan
this all out as a one man show. Im still interested in
getting a retailer involved or even running a smaller
groupbuy by myself to gain a little traction around here.
My
plan for running this by myself isnt too complicated at all.
My biggest fear with this was running out of money when
problems arose. A problem I found after a little digging is
a common one. I ended up sitting down with my father, who’s
a financial professional, about this. He advised me to look
over my margins and make sure I have a large enough safety
net for even the worst outcome possible. The way I built in
protection for these problems was by building in fees to
each pricing tier. Each pricing tier value was rounded down
to an even number (no change) then 4$ was added into each
one. Shipping costs were also rounded up to the next dollar
as another small additional charge. With and at a 50 Minimum
Order value, that leaves me with about ~400$ minimum to play
with. That 400$ is going to be used to purchase a few extra
sets, cover return shipping costs, and pay anybody who
wanted to get involved with the shipping process. At this
point if there were to be any money left over after paying
out all of those things there is to be a 3 week period
before I pay myself for my time. Signature Plastics is
looking at accepting new orders for March, and with an
estimated 1-2 month manufacturing time, shipping could be
estimated to be complete come April-May.
On the word of
buyer saftey and protection all I personally have to offer
is a few confirmed trades over MechMarket and a positive
eBay seller reputation. In my interest check I have openly
asked the community for help. Specifically high-post count
or longtime GeekHack members getting directly involved with
the shipping and invoicing process. Ive also offered to pay
those interested for their time. Unfortunately no-one has
come forward expressing interest wanting to get involved
with the exception of Trenzafeeds. If anybody would still
like to get involved you are more than welcome to. Or if you
have any avenues where I could run this set such as PMK or
Massdrop im more than willing to hear you out.
Again,
im not looking to step on anybody’s toes or steal from
anybody. Im just hoping to ship out a keyset that makes
people happy and to get involved with the community.
Pricing
Tiers
Your order will have three components to it. There
will be a charge for each kit you order, a charge for your
associated shipping and a 4% total value charge for
PayPal.
All the kits
Official Color chips from
Signature Plastics
Color Charts from Signature Plastics-
http://www.keycapsdirect.com/images/colors/absblue.JPG
- Blues
http://www.keycapsdirect.com/images/colors/absgray.jpg
- Greys
—–Main Kits—–
Alphas
http://bit.ly/1KmNtif
Modifiers
http://bit.ly/1Y5JXyP
—–Child Deals—–
Ergodox Kit
http://bit.ly/1VZ2ISy
Keys will be fully sculptured.
Additional Mods
Kit
http://bit.ly/1NA1jQT
Mod sizes are 1.5u and 1u, with spacebars being 7u
& 6.5u
Numpad Kit
http://bit.ly/1KPpjiD
The “+” And “Enter” keys will both be SA R3
Planck
+ Atomic Kit -
http://bit.ly/1NsHf1i
ISO Kit -
http://bit.ly/1J8VNNi
Color Kit / Mod kit
http://bit.ly/1LdoQVZ
—–Additional information—–
The caps are set to
be made out of Doubleshot ABS plastic.
The keys will be
SA family
These keycaps will be made for Cherry MX
Stems only
This set will run with the new row 4 shift
molds Oobly recently announced. The set will be a true fully
sculptured SA set.
Thanks everybody for sticking around
this long. I hope you all like the set.
Hippo-