Booo!

Other manufacturers are available.

>Just stop joining group buys and the problem will solve itself over time.

Then those of us who accept and understand the situation will just carry on running and using them without having to put up with people moaning endlessly about them.

GBs are what made this hobby what it is. Without them, it will just become like the gaming industry. Lots of identical, low risk products that all look the same. The fact that the GB model allows risk taking is what generates the variety and uniqueness of product that drew you here in the first instance, and now you want to kill it because you can't buy stuff with next day delivery?

Yeah some vendors have had some recent in-stock GMK sets for $89~$99 on sale. That’s an awesome price because that’s how much the lower priced GB sets from other manu’s cost at my local vendor.

> So I take it if GMK keycaps were in stock, you'd be buying loads of them, right?

Well duh? I'd rather buy something when it's on the shelf rather than wait 2 years for that? Must be crazy!

Good to hear that RK is good choice to start with. Slowly but surely I will start doing the modding.Right now I enjoy it as it came.

>It's infuriating to see a cool keycap set online that I really want only to find out it was from a group buy 4 years ago

Then perhaps write to the designer and ask if they would consider doing another run. GMK can't sell you more. They don't have the right to do so. They belong to the designer, not GMK. GMK do not design keycaps.

What kind of logic is that? Companies in EVERY industry work like that, big or small. Brb I'm gonna order a pair of shoes and then wait 2 years for them to be made and delivered. Sounds absurd, doesn't it?

Nice, my switch list is getting bigger and my wallet is sweating.

>we should force companies to set up a legitimate system

Which companies are you talking about here? GMK do not sell keycaps... they make them. Who will you be forcing?

Good to hear that!

I have a separate keyboard for work, I wfh so I want to detach a bit from work thus the different keyboard but, I am loving the mechanical keyboard so I am thinking, maybe I will get one for work with silent switches in case I need to go to the office so, I will look into gateron silent. Compared to a membrane keyboard, how loud are they?

Other manufacturers are available.

Stay strong my brother for the waiting game!

> stop doing group buys and force companies to take on the risk to create an actual in stock product

Large companies don't take risks on something that historically sells so few units. GMK just make what you tell them to. They don't design anything. The people who design them are just community members like you and I. We don't have 5 figure sums of cash just lying around. Even a successful group buy for keycaps sells just a couple of thousand examples, including extras. The risk is very high, and the cost are significant.

Woah, that is unexpected! Thanks for sharing.

Good to hear that you enjoy your rk68! The modding seems a bit intimidating but I plan to start with small stuff like lubing then get to the next mod.

>Make them take a loan, get money, do whatever they have to to produce the set if they feel like it's worth it.

That's really easy to say when you have no intention of doing it, and are just arguing on the internet.

Great to hear that, this will be my main keyboard for a while so I am glad to hear they are reliable.

Did you mean gat milky pro yellows?

Nice, initially I was interested in a smaller form but going from full size to rk68 seem too drastic to me.

>How is this illogical?

Because you clearly have no idea about the costs of developing and manufacturing a keycap set. The people who design all these cool sets are just community members like you and I. They are not large companies. If you wanted to design a keycap set, where would you get the money from? What you don't seem to realise is that even successful group buys for keycaps only sell a couple of thousand (including extras) so the costs are high, and the risk is high. Large companies have no interest in making keycap sets that sell in such small numbers because they would also need to sell them at similar prices. This is why most cheap Chinese keycaps are clones, because the risk is lower. If you KNOW a set is really well liked, you can just make clones to sell at half the price and be fairly certain that they will sell. If you didn't know this beforehand though, it would be a very risky venture to tool up and make caps in these kinds of quantities.

Like most people who say the stuff you are saying, if I asked you to present an alternative model, you'd just say something along the lines of "just make them, and then sell them".... in fact, you pretty much have said that already. This shows that you simply do not have the experience to comment on this. Sorry.

Nice!What key caps did you get?

Giveaway, is my guess

Thanks for the offer, already bought it though after getting like, zero help anywhere. Ended up going with the Kailh Box White switches, feel nice and now I know that no article I found really mentions the actual feel of the switch.