Author Topic: Adopt a Keycap Legend with Cherry Replica Font! (Cherry font, not some other font) (Read 36191 times)

litster · « **Reply #690 on:** Sat, 12 May 2012, 23:32:36 »

The_Ed, do you have a checking account? Do you write checks to pay bills?

hashbaz · « **Reply #691 on:** Sat, 12 May 2012, 23:34:05 »

Quote from: litster;591243

Guys, sorry for the inactivity in the last few weeks. Good thing is we didn't waste any energy on posts and discussion that would have been ghrolled back. :-) I hope the ghroll back problem is over.

A couple updates. First, legend fee is going to be $45 each, after checking with Melissa. Second, hashbaz, Hazeluff, and I are wondering if you guys would be OK with sending in your adoption fees using personal checks. Paypal is getting harder and harder to deal with. Personal checks would be a good option and it would be free of Paypal's iron claw.

Would you guys be oppose to personal checks?

Note that the $45 cost is new SP policy. Formerly the legends were $25-$45 depending on size and complexity. I sent Melissa a bunch of the Cherry font SVGs recently and asked her for legend fee quotes and she told me that they are moving to a flat $45 for all legends. My guess is that the surge in GH group buys has something to do with this. :-/

Also note that besides Paypal limiting and otherwise threatening several group buy organizers' accounts in the last year, the IRS now requires them to report accounts that receive $20K or more through at least 200 transactions. This has real tax implications for me and others. It would be great if we could find another way to do large group buys. Doing the legend fee collection, plus the moogle3 group buy and the Dolch group buy later on will definitely put me over $20K and 200 transactions.

mkawa · « **Reply #692 on:** Sat, 12 May 2012, 23:40:55 »

i'm fine with personal checks for this buy. also fine with proxying payments for people who can't do personal checks.

rknize · « **Reply #693 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 00:01:01 »

When did this policy start? I will probably go well over $20k just doing R4. :/

hashbaz · « **Reply #694 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 00:08:21 »

Quote from: rknize;591272

When did this policy start? I will probably go well over $20k just doing R4. :/

I believe the Paypal IRS reporting went into effect for fiscal year 2011.

The_Ed · « **Reply #695 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 00:12:54 »

Quote from: litster;591254

The_Ed, do you have a checking account? Do you write checks to pay bills?

I have a checking account. Both my checking and visa are tied to my paypal account. I've never written a check in my life though... It's gonna suck if future groupbuys require personal checks...

The_Ed · « **Reply #696 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 00:17:30 »

Why does the capslock in the OP not look like cherry or moogle?

snowboarder3 · « **Reply #697 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 00:21:14 »

Maybe amazon payments would work? I have no way to write checks but I could do amazon/paypal to a proxy

demik · « **Reply #698 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 00:24:29 »

Just about any form of payment will have to answer to the IRS if it goes over 20k.

Only way around this would be multiple collectors.

mkawa · « **Reply #699 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 00:31:13 »

we already get kind of skirt around this just by having different gb coordinators for most gbs. at some point someone's just going to have to bite the bullet and start a paper LLC and do the accounting though.

mickd · « **Reply #700 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 00:48:55 »

How do you guys pay SP? Via PayPal as well?

Quarzac · « **Reply #701 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 00:56:07 »

I don't have any checks. I have a checking account, but no checks. I also don't really have $45 I feel comfortable spending, but we'll worry about that later.

shawn o · « **Reply #702 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 00:56:22 »

Actually, if you accept even $1 via Paypal and transfer that to your bank account you are supposed to claim it on your taxes, state and federal.

If you ever get audited and they ask for bank records and see Paypal anywhere (withdrawl or deposit), it will have the IRS looking for blood...

shawn o · « **Reply #703 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 00:57:01 »

Oh and those w/o checks: anyone can go to the post office and get a money order so there are no excuses.

The_Ed · « **Reply #704 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 01:02:54 »

Oh I'll make excuses... I'm too lazy to get off my ass and go to the post office, and it's always closed anyways.

So there...

litster · « **Reply #705 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 01:05:20 »

Quote from: The_Ed;591312

Oh I'll make excuses... I'm too lazy to get off my ass and go to the post office, and it's always closed anyways.

So there...

One more reason for you is you are not on the adoption parent list. So there. :-)

The_Ed · « **Reply #706 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 01:08:28 »

I have 4 full 104 -1 flatcaps. I don't need replicas.

Oh and F24!

hazeluff · « **Reply #707 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 01:08:40 »

Quote from: demik;591284

Just about any form of payment will have to answer to the IRS if it goes over 20k.

Only way around this would be multiple collectors.

Even then, it would mean those people collecting are quite limited to the other GBs they run throughout the year.

snowboarder3 · « **Reply #708 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 01:09:18 »

Yeah, not sure I can do 45 either. I signed up under the impression it would be 10-20. I could still foot 20 but probably not full price for the legend.

The_Ed · « **Reply #709 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 01:11:47 »

And another one gone and another one gone
Another one bites the dust, yeah

hazeluff · « **Reply #710 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 01:20:56 »

We kinda expected people to drop out because of this. We should be able to pick it up tho.

The_Ed · « **Reply #711 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 01:25:15 »

Remember that if you do F13-F24 I will sponsor F24.

hashbaz · « **Reply #712 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 01:54:33 »

Quote from: demik;591284

Just about any form of payment will have to answer to the IRS if it goes over 20k.

Only way around this would be multiple collectors.

Yes. This isn't really Paypal's policy per se, it's a new law or IRS policy or something that Paypal is complying with. Other online payment systems will have the same issues.

Quote from: mickd;591298

How do you guys pay SP? Via PayPal as well?

Yep. Though I think they can do credit card as well.

Quote from: shawn o;591307

Actually, if you accept even $1 via Paypal and transfer that to your bank account you are supposed to claim it on your taxes, state and federal.

If you ever get audited and they ask for bank records and see Paypal anywhere (withdrawl or deposit), it will have the IRS looking for blood...

This is true for non-gift Paypal payments. And Paypal will slap you down if you accept too many gifts in return for what is obviously merchandise. I fear mkawa is right about setting up an LLC or something so that the large flood of prepayments don't look like actual income to the IRS. As large as group buys are getting lately, this has become a big deal.

Quote from: The_Ed;591328

Remember that if you do F13-F24 I will sponsor F24.

/slap

The_Ed · « **Reply #713 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 02:35:43 »

You forgot about this question...

Quote from: The_Ed;591278

Why does the capslock in the OP not look like cherry or moogle?

hazeluff · « **Reply #714 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 02:43:39 »

Quote from: The_Ed;591366

You forgot about this question...

Cherry boards have stepped caps that say:

Quote

Caps
Lock

I never had a reference for this key... so I just made it like it is in the OP.

The_Ed · « **Reply #715 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 03:01:11 »

Use this. It's one of my 3 vintage cherry un-stepped capslocks.

hazeluff · « **Reply #716 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 03:22:52 »

Quote from: The_Ed;591391

Use this. It's one of my 3 vintage cherry un-stepped capslocks.

Show Image

Ah sweet, Its just the spacing. = ) Yeah, I'll have that fixed. (don't expect updated image)

rindorbrot · « **Reply #717 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 04:47:22 »

45$ for a key that will probably never happen anyway as it's from the German layout?
I'm sorry guys, I think that I have to bail, too.
Also I don't have any idea how to send checks to the USA.

cactux · « **Reply #718 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 04:54:14 »

Silly question but, once you guys please an order with SP, is SP allow to reuse these SVG files for there own future deals or they are some how copyright?

The_Ed · « **Reply #719 on:** Sun, 13 May 2012, 04:55:10 »

So you're saying "German layout" == "F13-F24" when it comes to groupbuys?

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Author Topic: Adopt a Keycap Legend with Cherry Replica Font! (Cherry font, not some other font) (Read 36191 times)