Fake BroCaps Discussion

[HendyZone]

" I don’t want to make brobot’s clone, they are really ugly cheap ****

But Brocap always intervene in my business so I make a chance for him to show his genius "



What the hell happened with this guy, make clone just for profit ?

GH people must aware now, please support only from original BroCaps himself

[JinDesu]

Sounds more like making clones out of spite.

[dorkvader]

Well it looks like the same guy who was making the fake clacks, so at least it's only one source.

I think k3kc is just trolling everyone.

[HendyZone]

Well it looks like the same guy who was making the fake clacks, so at least it's only one source.

I think k3kc is just trolling everyone.

Yeah the same guy

He really really proud when cloning keycap  )

Clone ??
I believe everybody can do it if they want...

[Belfong]

Honestly, I don't think we should have a thread to discuss this, as this creates more 'awareness' and free advertisement for him. That guy does not deserve a thread.

[bueller]

Yeah if there is going to be a thread to discuss this let Bro start it, let's not give that wanker any more free advertisement.

[exitfire401]

Yeah if there is going to be a thread to discuss this let Bro start it, let's not give that wanker any more free advertisement.

This. I'm not closing it, but I'd say don't discuss it unless you want more people to know about it. I wouldn't have known about it if it wasn't for this thread. That scumbag will get what's coming to him eventually.

[Distilled]

The only thing that really needs to be advertised is that if you are even seen to support this POS you will be banned from not only Bro sales, but all CtrlAlt buys forever more.

[strict]

If it weren't for the **** heads on reddit this guy wouldn't have much of a market to begin with. So many of them have the "I don't want to have to wait or do anything other than put my credit card number in a form to get what I want" mentality and they think that justifies buying this copycat ****. I used to visit /r/mk occasionally up until this cloner started peddling his garbage but after seeing how positively the community responded to him I've almost completely stopped visiting that subreddit.

I know my business doesn't come anywhere near the level of Bunny and Margo but I will be maintaining a personal blacklist of anyone I see with this cloner **** and will refuse any and all business with them, no questions asked. They will not be getting anything I sell in the classifieds nor will they be able to participate in any of my future group buys for stainless plates, etc.

[IPT]

Fauxbots?

[esoomenona]

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[exitfire401]

The people on reddit are ridiculous and hypocritical. I know there's a lot of people there, so it's hard to generalize, but.... When the guy makes fake CCs, they are excited and purchase them. Now he says this and they're on him about it? wtg

All of the people that got on him about bros are ones that are active here. Nobody that is not on here has said a negative thing about him over that from what I've seen. Reddit being reddit.

[IPT]

The people on reddit are ridiculous and hypocritical. I know there's a lot of people there, so it's hard to generalize, but.... When the guy makes fake CCs, they are excited and purchase them. Now he says this and they're on him about it? wtg

remember, vocal minority on reddit.  many lurkers, prob more than GH.  And im 99% sure people on GH were buying his fauxclacks too

[noisyturtle]

I still don't understand why the mods over there are copacetic with this guy leaving turds all over their forum.

[nubbinator]

Will someone just firebomb this douchebag already?

Edit: And We should just ban pmh already.  I love how he's a mod of that forum and wants to be taken seriously elsewhere, but here he is once again encouraging counterfeiters and giving them a place to show off and sell their wares.

[IPT]

its reddit
and really? We're gonna threaten firebomb violence to someone making "fake" goods?
why not just nuke 90% of China out of existence while you're at it.

[dorkvader]

remember, vocal minority on reddit.  many lurkers, prob more than GH.  And im 99% sure people on GH were buying his fauxclacks too

GH has at least 5 times as many lurkers than /r/mechanicalkeyboards
reddit: ~2 Million page views http://i.imgur.com/DBxqxDX.png
GH: ~15 million views over the same timespan (month of May) http://geekhack.org/index.php?action=stats

[Lurch]

Will someone just firebomb this douchebag already?

10x, pls.

[nubbinator]

its reddit
and really? We're gonna threaten firebomb violence to someone making "fake" goods?
why not just nuke 90% of China out of existence while you're at it.

You have heard of being facetious right?  I'm being over the top and obviously inappropriate as a way of showing disgust for a situation.  I would never wish serious harm upon someone, even someone like k3 who is stealing from Clack and Bro now and who is obviously an amoral douchebag only concerned with hurting others and making money.

[baldgye]

Wait, isn't what he's doing against reddit t&c? Pretty sure you can't openly admit to breaking the law, even on random sub's...

Least that's what I've been told by people re-streaming sporting events and trying to link it on reddit

[exitfire401]

Wait, isn't what he's doing against reddit t&c? Pretty sure you can't openly admit to breaking the law, even on random sub's...

Least that's what I've been told by people re-streaming sporting events and trying to link it on reddit

Rip lets him do it because he knows it pisses off the GH community. You can report it, but Admins very seldom interfere with anything that isn't a default sub.

[noisyturtle]

What if Ripster is financing the whole thing?
Just gonna plant that little seed...

[nubbinator]

Wait, isn't what he's doing against reddit t&c? Pretty sure you can't openly admit to breaking the law, even on random sub's...

Least that's what I've been told by people re-streaming sporting events and trying to link it on reddit

It's borderline.  That said, Bro and CC could do a DMCA takedown request to get the links to the counterfeits removed and potentially get him shadowbanned at Reddit.

And MiTo (wherever you are), you should be ashamed.  GH made your Pulse set wildly successful and yet here you are, begging for counterfeits and people to rip off the work of others.  Shameful.

[SpAmRaY]

Wait, isn't what he's doing against reddit t&c? Pretty sure you can't openly admit to breaking the law, even on random sub's...

Least that's what I've been told by people re-streaming sporting events and trying to link it on reddit

It's borderline.  That said, Bro and CC could do a DMCA takedown request to get the links to the counterfeits removed and potentially get him shadowbanned at Reddit.

And MiTo (wherever you are), you should be ashamed.  GH made your Pulse set wildly successful and yet here you are, begging for counterfeits and people to rip off the work of others.  Shameful.

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[demik]

Wait, isn't what he's doing against reddit t&c? Pretty sure you can't openly admit to breaking the law, even on random sub's...

Least that's what I've been told by people re-streaming sporting events and trying to link it on reddit

It's borderline.  That said, Bro and CC could do a DMCA takedown request to get the links to the counterfeits removed and potentially get him shadowbanned at Reddit.

And MiTo (wherever you are), you should be ashamed.  GH made your Pulse set wildly successful and yet here you are, begging for counterfeits and people to rip off the work of others.  Shameful.

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MITO YOU A ***** BRUH.



who is mito? wtf is pulse?

[strict]

Shameless self plug in hopes that we can spread awareness of why you dont buy knock-off garbage

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/2j4sd9/this_is_why_you_say_no_to_cheap_vietnamese/

[cphead]

Shameless self plug in hopes that we can spread awareness of why you dont buy knock-off garbage

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/2j4sd9/this_is_why_you_say_no_to_cheap_vietnamese/

Plug in ripster's KEYBOARD SCIENCE photos at the end and r/mk would eat that stuff up.

[nubbinator]

And MiTo (wherever you are), you should be ashamed.  GH made your Pulse set wildly successful and yet here you are, begging for counterfeits and people to rip off the work of others.  Shameful.

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MITO YOU A ***** BRUH.



who is mito? wtf is pulse?

This is MiTo.  This is PuLSE.  This is his Cospar set for those who want to boycott those who are supporting and encouraging counterfeiting.

Edit:  And the hypocrisy is strong in this one.

Shameless self plug in hopes that we can spread awareness of why you dont buy knock-off garbage

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/2j4sd9/this_is_why_you_say_no_to_cheap_vietnamese/

Nice.  Threw an upvote your way.  They really do look like ****.

Where did Bro post those pics?

[strict]

Nice.  Threw an upvote your way.  They really do look like ****.

Where did Bro post those pics?

Thanks! He posted them here in the Bro Caps gallery thread 

[CommonCurt]

Nice.  Threw an upvote your way.  They really do look like ****.

Where did Bro post those pics?

Thanks! He posted them here in the Bro Caps gallery thread 

Damn. Those counterfeits look horrible.

[heedpantsnow]

I used to live in China. Saw fake crape all the time. Fake crap is so...fake...and crap.

[bazh]

Shameless self plug in hopes that we can spread awareness of why you dont buy knock-off garbage

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/2j4sd9/this_is_why_you_say_no_to_cheap_vietnamese/

bu..but, that title hurts

upvoted as well

[HoffmanMyster]

Shameless self plug in hopes that we can spread awareness of why you dont buy knock-off garbage

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/2j4sd9/this_is_why_you_say_no_to_cheap_vietnamese/

bu..but, that title hurts

upvoted as well

You're reading it wrong.    You should always say no to cheap knockoffs.  You can say yes to authentic, high quality Vietnamese products!   

[MiTo]

Oh.

It seems I'm late to the party but luckly, I heard the shots being fired.

And hello nubbinator, long time mate. How's Apollo doing?

Regarding the following:

Hack Orange, Mint Gum, Red and PuLSE Blue

About a month ago somebody (I don't actually remember clearly who it was, it's on the PuLSE thread) requested novelties keycaps matching PuLSE colorscheme. Yes, Gasmasks maybe Zombies or Mummies and guess what? Skulls.

I contacted HotKeys and requested partnership and we're looking into that, Gasmasks.

So, now, I'm moving into Zombies, Mummies and again, Skulls.

Note that the word "Skulls" may refer to the famous CCs that everybody knows, but there are thousands of skulls designs that could be used for a resin made keycap.

And I really wanted one matching PuLSE colors because PuLSE/Death/Life/Heartbeat is a theme. And we're close to Halloween and I thought it was a good idea. On October 4th, I contacted this dude K3 to see if he could do anything, and here's his answer:

That's why on this image, I'm joking by telling that the dude probably uses Google Trsn.

And here's the rest of the thread, that our buddy nubbinator decided to hide.

Do I need to say anything else?

Oh.

And for those who don't know me, yes, I designed PuLSE, yes I'm designing Cospar and yes, I support this dude K3 (I didn't buy anything from him, actually) and I hope he comes up with his own designs soon because he has the tooling and logistics to make something decent and available to the masses.

If you want to boycott Cospar, go ahead.

Don't buy it, troll on it's thread and point out mistakes with it's design.

I'm very impressed by the level of education on it's thread, very impressed.

But I'm brazilian, I'm used to it.

Peace.

EDIT: Added the PuLSE novelties image for clarification.

[jdcarpe]

I support this dude K3 (I didn't buy anything from him, actually) and I hope he comes up with his own designs soon because he has the tooling and logistics to make something decent and available to the masses.

If you want to boycott Cospar, go ahead.

Boycotted. If you (or anyone) supports this douchebag k3kc, I will never buy anything you design or sell.

[tbc]

If it weren't for the **** heads on reddit this guy wouldn't have much of a market to begin with. So many of them have the "I don't want to have to wait or do anything other than put my credit card number in a form to get what I want" mentality and they think that justifies buying this copycat ****.

it's not just that.

reddit is a organizational hub made for trolling.


as in, if clivkclack was a redditor, they would have never allowed the sale to be promoted, but since clickclack is a GHer, it's all fair game to trash someone's real life work.

basically, we will ALWAYS have copycat trolls as long as reddit exists.

[trizkut]

So copying is okay as long as it's not your design?  You get pissed off because someone does a similar colorway, but are in favor of people blatantly ripping off others' designs and marketing them as "originals"?  I think it would be funny if SP decided to tell you to **** off and didn't respect your wishes to only have 1 round of pulse.

[noisyturtle]

Can we please get back to talking about big black penises, people?

[baldgye]

I support this dude K3 (I didn't buy anything from him, actually) and I hope he comes up with his own designs soon because he has the tooling and logistics to make something decent and available to the masses.

If you want to boycott Cospar, go ahead.

Boycotted. If you (or anyone) supports this douchebag k3kc, I will never buy anything you design or sell.

+1

[BunnyLake]

I support this dude K3 (I didn't buy anything from him, actually) and I hope he comes up with his own designs soon because he has the tooling and logistics to make something decent and available to the masses.

If you want to boycott Cospar, go ahead.

Boycotted. If you (or anyone) supports this douchebag k3kc, I will never buy anything you design or sell.

good man, i only hope more people feel the same

[digi]

Oh.

It seems I'm late to the party but luckly, I heard the shots being fired.

And hello nubbinator, long time mate. How's Apollo doing?

Regarding the following:

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Hack Orange, Mint Gum, Red and PuLSE Blue

About a month ago somebody (I don't actually remember clearly who it was, it's on the PuLSE thread) requested novelties keycaps matching PuLSE colorscheme. Yes, Gasmasks maybe Zombies or Mummies and guess what? Skulls.

I contacted HotKeys and requested partnership and we're looking into that, Gasmasks.

So, now, I'm moving into Zombies, Mummies and again, Skulls.

Note that the word "Skulls" may refer to the famous CCs that everybody knows, but there are thousands of skulls designs that could be used for a resin made keycap.

And I really wanted one matching PuLSE colors because PuLSE/Death/Life/Heartbeat is a theme. And we're close to Halloween and I thought it was a good idea. On October 4th, I contacted this dude K3 to see if he could do anything, and here's his answer:

Show Image

That's why on this image, I'm joking by telling that the dude probably uses Google Trsn.

Show Image

And here's the rest of the thread, that our buddy nubbinator decided to hide.

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Do I need to say anything else?

Oh.

And for those who don't know me, yes, I designed PuLSE, yes I'm designing Cospar and yes, I support this dude K3 (I didn't buy anything from him, actually) and I hope he comes up with his own designs soon because he has the tooling and logistics to make something decent and available to the masses.

If you want to boycott Cospar, go ahead.

Don't buy it, troll on it's thread and point out mistakes with it's design.

I'm very impressed by the level of education on it's thread, very impressed.

But I'm brazilian, I'm used to it.

Peace.

EDIT: Added the PuLSE novelties image for clarification.

I've read some dumb **** on the Internet but this goes to the top of the list.

Go back to Reddit please.

[BunnyLake]

Oh.

It seems I'm late to the party but luckly, I heard the shots being fired.

And hello nubbinator, long time mate. How's Apollo doing?

Regarding the following:

Show Image

Show Image

Hack Orange, Mint Gum, Red and PuLSE Blue

About a month ago somebody (I don't actually remember clearly who it was, it's on the PuLSE thread) requested novelties keycaps matching PuLSE colorscheme. Yes, Gasmasks maybe Zombies or Mummies and guess what? Skulls.

I contacted HotKeys and requested partnership and we're looking into that, Gasmasks.

So, now, I'm moving into Zombies, Mummies and again, Skulls.

Note that the word "Skulls" may refer to the famous CCs that everybody knows, but there are thousands of skulls designs that could be used for a resin made keycap.

And I really wanted one matching PuLSE colors because PuLSE/Death/Life/Heartbeat is a theme. And we're close to Halloween and I thought it was a good idea. On October 4th, I contacted this dude K3 to see if he could do anything, and here's his answer:

Show Image

That's why on this image, I'm joking by telling that the dude probably uses Google Trsn.

Show Image

And here's the rest of the thread, that our buddy nubbinator decided to hide.

Show Image

Do I need to say anything else?

Oh.

And for those who don't know me, yes, I designed PuLSE, yes I'm designing Cospar and yes, I support this dude K3 (I didn't buy anything from him, actually) and I hope he comes up with his own designs soon because he has the tooling and logistics to make something decent and available to the masses.

If you want to boycott Cospar, go ahead.

Don't buy it, troll on it's thread and point out mistakes with it's design.

I'm very impressed by the level of education on it's thread, very impressed.

But I'm brazilian, I'm used to it.

Peace.

EDIT: Added the PuLSE novelties image for clarification.

I've read some dumb **** on the Internet but this goes to the top of the list.

Go back to Reddit please.

i made you an avatar

http://imgur.com/O8Smr0g

[demik]

as a comnunity we should decide if we want people like mito to continue posting here. the blatant disrespect shown towards two of our members is incredible.

[BunnyLake]

as a comnunity we should decide if we want people like mito to continue posting here. the blatant disrespect shown towards two of our members is incredible.

as a member of the community, i would like my vote to go towards him not being able to continue to

[SpAmRaY]

as a comnunity we should decide if we want people like mito to continue posting here. the blatant disrespect shown towards two of our members is incredible.

Since the mods want to enforce group buy rules, here is a good one, don't let people who openly support fakes that directly harm and disrespect artisans who call geekhack home run group buys and benefit off of the controversy.

[MiTo]

So copying is okay as long as it's not your design?  You get pissed off because someone does a similar colorway, but are in favor of people blatantly ripping off others' designs and marketing them as "originals"?  I think it would be funny if SP decided to tell you to **** off and didn't respect your wishes to only have 1 round of pulse.

Dvoryke is a friend and that was a joke between us.

I sincerely don't really care about people copying "my" stuff since I don't make money with this.

CF himself is the only one who should be looking into this, not you, since it's his business and his sales won't be affected.

As a matter of fact, he should thank K3 because now more people is looking into a real CC - free marketing.

good man, i only hope more people feel the same

Hey Bunny, I thought you were dead.

But seriously, why are you wasting time here?

You've got a lot of work to do, like going to your local post office in order to conclude Penumbra shipping.

That's taking a little bit too long.

Thanks for the image, I'll upload it asap.

as a comnunity we should decide if we want people like mito to continue posting here. the blatant disrespect shown towards two of our members is incredible.

I'm not the one uneducated here.

[demik]

im failing to see how that takes away from you supporting fakes.

or did you just find anything to "get back at me"? weak son. weak af.

[BunnyLake]

So copying is okay as long as it's not your design?  You get pissed off because someone does a similar colorway, but are in favor of people blatantly ripping off others' designs and marketing them as "originals"?  I think it would be funny if SP decided to tell you to **** off and didn't respect your wishes to only have 1 round of pulse.

Dvoryke is a friend and that was a joke between us.

I sincerely don't really care about people copying "my" stuff since I don't make money with this.

CF himself is the only one who should be looking into this, not you, since it's his business and his sales won't be affected.

As a matter of fact, he should thank K3 because now more people is looking into a real CC - free marketing.

good man, i only hope more people feel the same

Hey Bunny, I thought you were dead.

But seriously, why are you wasting time here?

You've got a lot of work to do, like going to your local post office in order to conclude Penumbra shipping.

ive shipped all mine

just waiting for the US proxy to ship the rest of his, much like you do with every single set of yours

what is it you do again, ah yeah, **** all, pick out 2 colours, stir up some drama, let other people do all the work then take the credit

you talk about rallying the community together, and being part of it, yet you **** all over it and attack people

you are a nasty, petty and pathetic trumped up little man, sadly, some people couldnt see that right away, but you just managed to burn all your bridges here

so **** off back to reddit

[Signature]

So copying is okay as long as it's not your design?  You get pissed off because someone does a similar colorway, but are in favor of people blatantly ripping off others' designs and marketing them as "originals"?  I think it would be funny if SP decided to tell you to **** off and didn't respect your wishes to only have 1 round of pulse.

Dvoryke is a friend and that was a joke between us.

I sincerely don't really care about people copying "my" stuff since I don't make money with this.

CF himself is the only one who should be looking into this, not you, since it's his business and his sales won't be affected.

As a matter of fact, he should thank K3 because now more people is looking into a real CC - free marketing.

good man, i only hope more people feel the same

Hey Bunny, I thought you were dead.

But seriously, why are you wasting time here?

You've got a lot of work to do, like going to your local post office in order to conclude Penumbra shipping.

That's taking a little bit too long.

Thanks for the image, I'll upload it asap.

as a comnunity we should decide if we want people like mito to continue posting here. the blatant disrespect shown towards two of our members is incredible.

I'm not the one uneducated here.

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Are you by any chance mentally retarded?

[jdcarpe]

as a comnunity we should decide if we want people like mito to continue posting here. the blatant disrespect shown towards two of our members is incredible.

I propose we form a small group of members, dedicated to protecting the membership at large, who could review the accounts of people such as the ones you describe, and vote or come to a consensus on whether they should be allowed to continue posting here as members of our community. We would need some way to bring these accounts to the attention of that group, though.