Mechanical Keyboard Sound Isn't That Simple
Figure 1: I couldn't think of a more literal way to represent this article if I tried... Looking back just a few years ago, there’s no doubt that the huge influx of people that joined the hobby at the peak of the COVID pandemic were drawn to keyboards by way of YouTube, TikTok, and other audio-visual content platforms. Even as the output from these content creators has waned in recent months, their collective impact and legacy on the keyboard hobby is rather firmly etched in the history books. As a result of all of their sound tests, build logs, and opinion videos, the message is clear to any new person joining the hobby: mechanical keyboards are all about the sound. Thock this, clack that. Whether it’s keyboards, keycaps, or even singular switches, seemingly everyone new to the hobby meticulously pores over each component of their keyboard not in an attempt to figure out how it will feel in hand, but how it will sound as they’re furiously grinding their way out from...
Mar 27, 2024
I thought about this salty kit:
"ALFRED! BRING ME A BOTTLE OF TEQUILA!"
P.s I also await your next closet drop. LOL :-p
Can we get the pricing on the spacekeys kit fixed? It passed the last drop point, but it hasn't been adjusted.
this is a matter of communications and buyers respect.
this is a know problem of massdrop and it get worst every time
this should have be done simultaneously: remove wrong warning sign, but new price and kits, leave a messege with explanations
anyway the salt kit should be free to every new warning sign kit buyers
I was joking about the salty kit...
i mean that the salty kit should be free to the people who buy the new warning signs kit
Now that everything is solved, since i'm still mad for the no pre-warning before removing the kit and we will have to pay a different price because we got no notice before the change, may we have at least that dope Salty kit!?!? It is too late to return on your steps @T0mb3ry, you showed us the salty kit, mistakes were made, giff salty kit
and anyway you could use any words when talking about this drop except loss
I don't think they switched the price to contain the loss, I think they switched the price to a fair market price as soon as Yanbo was back. They could have told everyone who bought the kit at the original price that they would need to pay more (this wouldn't have upset me too much, and in fact I sort of expected this would happen and was prepared to pay more). Instead, they fixed the price but ate the loss for everyone who was already in.
Anyway, I definitely agree MD should learn from this. But, I suspect the main thing they have learned is to have someone doublecheck prices before posting. Anyone familiar with SA drops would have seen the warning signs kit was priced too low, which leads me to believe no one ever took a second look before posting. Ultimately, double checking these things before release would prevent anything like this from happening again
Personally i know at least 4 people (plus me) upset from this, not sure if they will really pass this drop just for this, but they may pass. What they did is not even smart for them, since these few people may pass a $200+ drop only for the drama behind this little kit. It wasn't smarter to have another small and insignificant loss of 1 day with a pre-warning but make everyone happy to join the drop? You know just to make things clear and clean for everyone, which is exactly what a million dollar company should do.
You should make these mods happen, I'm probably not alone in my wallet burning insanity.
This is a great example of what many have been reiterating here in these keycaps group buys, if you want to get the next tier pricing, commit to it early and let it pan out. Don't be on the fence and wait until everything is at it's lowest, because, whatever price you enter in is the lowest then, and it can go lower. That's it.
I for one am glad I took the plunge with all alpha and kits that I wanted/needed, *takes my popcorn* and waits for new pricing tier.
no 40%, no DC, no ISO, no NORDEUK, no ERGODOX, no PLANCK from maxkey ...
I have no problem with that, I'm now on ANSI 104 after a few excursions to a V60 and an Ergodox.