insensitive porpoise

i mean if you look at other keycap makers they are not that much cheaper. economy of scale and limited production doesnt go hand in hand

Is this the green sonnet? I didn’t realize it was that dark

Okay, thanks.

What's even so good about GMK keycaps? High price doesn't automatically mean high quality.

Stares at Wallet with Murderous intent

Wallet: Please Master, don't do this

Yes. 6 keycaps or 3 spacebar's for free shipping

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Love this combo on the Bear V2

Maybe the designers/vendors within this sub have an incentive to get their contacts at GMK looking at this...

For what its worth, although I can't speak to the sets Rensuya ran, I do think a lot of designers now do use physical color chips for matching their renders + ship those same chips to GMK before the color sampling stage begins. (My only evidence for this is anecdotal based on the GMK set I ran and the other designers I've talked to - I do think there are a lot of designers doing their due diligence!)

That sounds about right. Like someone is into the keep-space, and wants a rare set. with someone not even knowing the difference between cherry and OEM keycaps. buying it for them, and falling for the Clone-selller's scam

Did Ren just make his discord private?

CannonKeys has been the main vendor for most of Rensuya’s keysets and despite having color matching errors over and over again they keep running his stuff. They definitely should be held accountable

every designer discord are like that, its like a cult these day, you can only say good things about a designer or get banned

good catch. Write GMK a mail.

I know SKF has a department that only hunts down fakes as they hurt the brand image.

Now, GMK is a bit smaller and likely doesn't have the manpower, but they do have a brand name to protect.

Who knows, maybe there's a little "thank you" in it for you.

every day, an idiot wakes up.

They are probably targeting newcomers, or family members or friends, people who are not in the hobby looking to buy their loved ones something they love, and imagine the feelings of those people when they found out they bought them a fake stuff.

>6 keycaps per order & all collections will be free shipping

Does this mean you have to order 6 to get free shipping? I just ordered a 1u and a Spacebar and it charged shipping. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

Explain

Damn, is there something new with Red Dragon? I'm in that GB myself and the only things I can think of is the long color matching phase and one of the colors being changed due to REACH violations.

It's not a mistake, it's greed. GMK gives a certain number of colour matching attempts for free, and after that if the designer still isn't happy then they have to pay for further rounds.

This is happening because rensuya not only has already made all his money from this set, but has learnt from past experience that fucking over his current GB customers won't hurt future sales.

He has done this three or four times already and each time just makes more money. People keep buying the sets though.

Please post more of your findings on Sxm. I personally was very put off by them attacking that Google Docs sheet showing the public GMK GB queue (not even showing all those orders placed at GMK that are not GBS) because it basically revealed that vendors and designers such as Sxm have been lying about GMK fulfillment times - it's not an excuse to say they communicated what GMK told them about the timeline when they very well knew at that point (towards end of 2021) that those dates were unrealistic (there were sets running in the latter half of 2021 that promised 2022 fulfillment)

Did a quick check and the only one listed selling said "official" iceberg set

is mechsandco

https://mechsandco.com/collections/keycaps/products/gb-gmk-iceberg

It is not a XDA version, which would be the only thing differentiating the 2.

since its a known clone set, that sells for less than 16-22$ on aliexpress. it baffles me that they think they can get away with it.

Especially with the Keeb's space being quite familiar with sites like aliexpress.

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Who do they think they are gonna fool, the veterans? new buyers, or people looking for a certain set?

I'm not sure that competition makes any difference in this space.

If you mean more mass produced keyboards then yes, that keyboard is cheaper because they have produced 1000x+. I don't think aio3, noxary and hiney were making huge profits with their small batch runs.

Things like economies of scale, market conditions in raw materials ( ie. Alu,.brass, copper) PCB production cost and availability of components, logistic costs, etc are all at play.

We are finally seeing prices of all raw materials drop since the onset of the pandemic and component levels stabilize.

That being said, I do enjoy the amount of available options.