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Pulicadelavrancea
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Apr 6, 2017
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Emusic
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Apr 6, 2017
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PulicadelavranceaWhat do you class as 'truly nice sets'?
I think you have misunderstood how groupbuys work. You don't boycott GMK- they are just the manufacturer, they produce what people order with fullfilled MOQs. In this circumstance Massdrop places an order to GMK for x amount of keysets, GMK does not care for what style keycaps they are; why should they? They get their money and the customer gets whatever style keycaps they ordered. All in all its ultimately the community that decides what keycap styles are produced.
The thing with GMK is that they are using original cherry equipment and can produce very high quality ABS keycaps - comparable to PBT keycaps if not better. People go to GMK to get nice colourways produced, perhaps most famously known is GMK Carbon. There are many people like me who don't care for many fancy colourways and just like plain keycaps.
Perhaps instead of 'boycotting' whatever, take a look at enjoypbt or even more extreme make your own 'truly nice' colourway and gather support to make your own groupbuy. If your colourway is 'truly nice' you should be able to reach MOQ and be able to get produced whatever the hell you want.
If you don't like spending this sort of money on a set of keycaps look for cheaper options I heard Gateron make excellent PBT keycaps for a fairly affordable price.
I think you have misunderstood how groupbuys work. You don't boycott GMK- they are just the manufacturer, they produce what people order with fullfilled MOQs. In this circumstance Massdrop places an order to GMK for x amount of keysets, GMK does not care for what style keycaps they are; why should they? They get their money and the customer gets whatever style keycaps they ordered. All in all its ultimately the community that decides what keycap styles are produced.
The thing with GMK is that they are using original cherry equipment and can produce very high quality ABS keycaps - comparable to PBT keycaps if not better. People go to GMK to get nice colourways produced, perhaps most famously known is GMK Carbon. There are many people like me who don't care for many fancy colourways and just like plain keycaps.
Perhaps instead of 'boycotting' whatever, take a look at enjoypbt or even more extreme make your own 'truly nice' colourway and gather support to make your own groupbuy. If your colourway is 'truly nice' you should be able to reach MOQ and be able to get produced whatever the hell you want.
If you don't like spending this sort of money on a set of keycaps look for cheaper options I heard Gateron make excellent PBT keycaps for a fairly affordable price.
Pulicadelavrancea
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Apr 6, 2017
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EmusicI think you misunderstood what marketing bs is all about.
I am stuck here, waiting for GMK to manufacture the Jessica GMK Plum and what is GMK doing? They postponed the original delivery date because apparently they are busy with other trifle projects, like this trashy, plain and boring set.
I am stuck here, waiting for GMK to manufacture the Jessica GMK Plum and what is GMK doing? They postponed the original delivery date because apparently they are busy with other trifle projects, like this trashy, plain and boring set.
Emusic
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Apr 6, 2017
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PulicadelavranceaDude they cannot be busy with this set it isn't even in production.
John_1
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Apr 6, 2017
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EmusicI would think supply for popular sets are purposly ebbed and flowed in order to keep demand/prices high. The only thing that will drop prices is healthy competition from cherry profile clones that are equal in quality (JTK could be similar quality in a few years).
rainb1ood
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Apr 6, 2017
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PulicadelavranceaGMK White on Black is where it all started, then Beige, then Dolch.
Do you homework first before posting ignorant stuff.
Do you homework first before posting ignorant stuff.
c_r_z
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Apr 6, 2017
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Rafa_mYes, those two look fine, Yuri with cyrillics would be awesome, and Oblivion with white Alphas too. Actually I'm looking forward to GMK Oblivion and SA Oblivion. But the trouble with this kind of sets is that even if you have the money, it takes forever to get one. If you have the money for one set right now, there's none to buy. That sounds like artificial demand and dominant market position to me. I bet if a new force like Tai Hao got into this market it would run both SP and GMK into the ground.
ChuckDee
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Apr 7, 2017
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c_r_zThey are in the market. And their facilities are not as good. So their result is not as good. Acceptable, but not as good. If that's what you want, then get the ones that they make. You just won't get the custom sets.
Fulcream
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Apr 8, 2017
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PulicadelavranceaSo basically you are just need to see colors to make you happy
c_r_z
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Apr 8, 2017
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FulcreamI think people with plenty of money will buy this set for the better material despite the plain looks. But people that can't afford to buy all sets that pop up will also want some interesting color combinations in addition to the better materials. That's why people aren't buying this set in the quantities of the previous ones.
rainb1ood
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Oct 13, 2018
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Pulicadelavranceain this case, looks like you are the kid. LOL
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GMK should stop wasting our time and crank up the production cycles for some truly nice sets.
We should all boycott GMK and stop buying sets like this. Who's with me on this?