[GB] SP SA Blue Addon Novelties （Production completed!）

[hoq]

  After several monthes of IC , I decided to open this group buy.
  You may refer to the IC thread to see what this product about.
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=86464.msg2322910#msg2322910

Prodcution： USA，SP
Design: MaMa, hoq
Vendor：KP (China）

Group buy period: April, 5th,2017- May, 5th, 2017

Price：

Based on Moq 100 price:
Set1-$32.32
Set2-$21.16
Set3-$21.16
Set4-$32.32

  The products layout:

  Renders:






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  Order place:
https://goo.gl/forms/Rmwvbrn8qqCkCzMD3

  Note:
  1. All the prices are base on the China Taobao price, exchanged to USD.
  2. All the products will ship from China buy express to all over the world.
  3, Expected shipping date： Oct,2017.
  4, About the vendor “KP”： The largest mechanical keyboard customized peripheral products vendor in China， also a partener of MD in China Market. All the order money will collected by KP and KP will place the order to SP directly, not through me at all.
  5，Because of this GH group buy is running at the same with China taobao.com, you may also buy them on taobao, if it's convinient.
       The taobao shopping webpage: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=547980177674

[hoq]

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[BunnyLake]

good luck with your GB sir 

[hoq]

good luck with your GB sir 

Thanks!  )

[ChitownM2]

So do you have a production slot lined up with SP for this or are you hoping they will accept the order once it's fully funded and ready to go into production?

I'll probably be in on sets 1 & 2...

[breusch91]

Holy crap shipping is expensive. Im out if it stays at that price. $30 U.S. shipping, thats the price of one of these sets. You should work on finding some proxies to try and cut the shipping in half because I think for an add on set that is only $30, youre going to lose a LOT of people that don't want to pay the same or more in shipping cost.

edit: wait i just read through it and the example prices you used are for a 4.4lb package? If thats correct and its based on weight it probably wont be so bad as these shouldnt even weigh 1lb. But ill wait to get this confirmed.

[hoq]

So do you have a production slot lined up with SP for this or are you hoping they will accept the order once it's fully funded and ready to go into production?

I'll probably be in on sets 1 & 2...

The novelties keys production don't occupy the full keyset tooling. As SP told me, if it's a full keyset, the production tools are fully booked out through this year , till the next March I guess. But for novelties , they can make with some other machines. So, we can get them sooner than those full keysets.

[hoq]

Holy crap shipping is expensive. Im out if it stays at that price. $30 U.S. shipping, thats the price of one of these sets. You should work on finding some proxies to try and cut the shipping in half because I think for an add on set that is only $30, youre going to lose a LOT of people that don't want to pay the same or more in shipping cost.

edit: wait i just read through it and the example prices you used are for a 4.4lb package? If thats correct and its based on weight it probably wont be so bad as these shouldnt even weigh 1lb. But ill wait to get this confirmed.

But the price of each kit is quiet cheap I think.
This time I have't use a USA local vendor to sell them, so I lower the price of each kit.
But, I have to let SP send the product to China vendor KP first and then send out , the shipping are higher than we thought.

As, you know , we also ask taobao buyers for 58yuan extra international transportation·fee, that is about 10USD,
I think KP has charged this on those GH buyers in the Shipping fee.

[maximm]

Ordered one of each

[t8c]

ordered!

[ricyuyc]

Ordered.

[ChitownM2]

So will the shipping costs be refunded? It seems odd to be collecting shipping charges based on a 4 lb weight when we know the weight will be like 1 lb. Can we get an estimated cost for shipping a 1 lb package?

[maximm]

Yeah, the i am pretty sure im not ordering 2kg of novelties here.

[t8c]

shipping cost for GMK 9009 and Classic Retro from China was way way lower.

[sneaky101]

To have this shipped to Australia, would it go USA>China>USA>AU? Or just USA>China>AU? Ideally it would be USA>AU but dang, the price of shipping is $6 more than the product itself..

[bleik]

im new here so i have to ask.. are these prices only for those sets or for the whole kit + specified set?

[ChitownM2]

only those sets shown (1-4).

All of these kits complement keycap sets that you would already have to own (dasher & dancer or godspeed).

[hoq]

To have this shipped to Australia, would it go USA>China>USA>AU? Or just USA>China>AU? Ideally it would be USA>AU but dang, the price of shipping is $6 more than the product itself..

USA->China->AU

[ricyuyc]

only those sets shown (1-4).

All of these kits complement keycap sets that you would already have to own (dasher & dancer or overcast).

The SA addon should be matched better on Godspeed SA set, instead of Overcast which is DSA profile.

[ChitownM2]

only those sets shown (1-4).

All of these kits complement keycap sets that you would already have to own (dasher & dancer or overcast).

The SA addon should be matched better on Godspeed SA set, instead of Overcast which is DSA profile.

You're absolutely correct. Not sure what I was thinking...

[ChitownM2]

I wanted to ask again since this didn't get answered.

Current shipping charges to the US are based on a 4.4 lb package. I believe this is 4x heavier than the actual shipping weight will be. Since shipping costs are being collected up front, will we be refunded the difference at a later date?

If not, is there anyone in the US that we can use as a proxy to distribute from? $30 in shipping should be enough to ship everyone's order to a single US destination. From there it would be under $5 each to send out to individuals.

[hoq]

I wanted to ask again since this didn't get answered.

Current shipping charges to the US are based on a 4.4 lb package. I believe this is 4x heavier than the actual shipping weight will be. Since shipping costs are being collected up front, will we be refunded the difference at a later date?

If not, is there anyone in the US that we can use as a proxy to distribute from? $30 in shipping should be enough to ship everyone's order to a single US destination. From there it would be under $5 each to send out to individuals.

The shipping fees we quote have contained the cost which the keycaps send from US to China, because  they  are  made by SP, we must  get them first, and then distribute them to all over the world.
I'm sorry we havn't  find any vendor for help in US this time.

[hoq]

Update by April 15

Totally sold ( including Taobao and GH)

Set1 65
Set2 53
Set3 48
Set4 84

It seems that more people like that red novelties, maybe because they can applied in DnD and Godspeed.

[ChitownM2]

The shipping fees we quote have contained the cost which the keycaps send from US to China, because  they  are  made by SP, we must  get them first, and then distribute them to all over the world.
I'm sorry we havn't  find any vendor for help in US this time.

Thanks for clarifying. I'm in for sets 1 & 2.

[t8c]

Anyone want to combine shipping if that is possible? I would just like set number 3 (Europe)

[hoq]

Update by April 20

Totally sold ( including Taobao and GH)

Set1 73
Set2 56
Set3 61
Set4 90

[hoq]

Update by April 28

Totally sold ( including Taobao and GH)

Set1 78
Set2 58
Set3 65
Set4 95

[ChitownM2]

Is this going to get extended until we at least hit MOQ for set 1? That was really it's reason for being...

Also, probably worthwhile to see if sets 2 & 3 could be combined or something otherwise it doesn't look like either will hit MOQ.  I'm actually kind of shocked to see that set 3 has more sales than 2 since Dasher was far more popular than Dancer and you can't make a whole bottom row with either....

[breusch91]

HOQ ive noticed the shipping has dropped from $30 to $17 for US. Might be a good thing to note in this GB that this price changed as I know me and probably others were sitting out to the extreme shipping.  Now that its been cut in half Ill probably be going in for at least one set

[hoq]

Is this going to get extended until we at least hit MOQ for set 1? That was really it's reason for being...

Also, probably worthwhile to see if sets 2 & 3 could be combined or something otherwise it doesn't look like either will hit MOQ.  I'm actually kind of shocked to see that set 3 has more sales than 2 since Dasher was far more popular than Dancer and you can't make a whole bottom row with either....

Yes, We are planning to buy buy extended to meet MOQ100 ,don't be worry.

I also don't know why Set3 are more than Set2.haha.

[hoq]

HOQ ive noticed the shipping has dropped from $30 to $17 for US. Might be a good thing to note in this GB that this price changed as I know me and probably others were sitting out to the extreme shipping.  Now that its been cut in half Ill probably be going in for at least one set

Thank you. Maybe KP lowered the shipping fee.haha....

[ihalatch]

Can you please extend the GB till 16 May so I can pay?

[Kalopsia]

What would the shipping be to Norway?

[hoq]

What would the shipping be to Norway?

You can check the URL below to check out the shipping fee to Europe.

  Order place:
https://goo.gl/forms/Rmwvbrn8qqCkCzMD3

[hoq]

Can you please extend the GB till 16 May so I can pay?

Sorry, we can not wait that long.

[ChitownM2]

Can you provide the price for sets 2 & 3 at the 50 & 75 moq mark? Our seems unlikely either will get to 100 even if we keep it open another week....

[ChitownM2]

Glad to see someone pushed through all of the sets

I'm sure once people get dasher & dancer into their hands whatever vendor pushed us over MOQ will be able to sell them easily.

[hoq]

Can you provide the price for sets 2 & 3 at the 50 & 75 moq mark? Our seems unlikely either will get to 100 even if we keep it open another week....

Luckily, the global sold quantities have hit MOQ100 for each set!


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[six_chains]

too late to get in on this? I'd be down for 2 sets.

[ricyuyc]

...
  3, Expected shipping date： Oct,2017.
...

Thanks for your coordination. Does expected shipping date would be still on Oct 2017? Is that date talking about shipping from SP or KP?

[PleaseBeMyFriend]

Can you provide the price for sets 2 & 3 at the 50 & 75 moq mark? Our seems unlikely either will get to 100 even if we keep it open another week....

Luckily, the global sold quantities have hit MOQ100 for each set!


From My iPhone 9.99

Hey hoq, I pmed you a couple of times but you never replied. If you have the time, could you answer back please? Thanks!

[ihalatch]

Paid. Can you please confirm it? Thanks.

[hoq]

SP has told me that the product will shipped out at end of Nov. So, I guess we can get them in Dec.

BTW, I also bought SA codes codes for reference.

[maximm]

Are we still set for the December ship date?

[hoq]

Are we still set for the December ship date?

Yes, SP will send me about at the end of Nov.

[hoq]

I write to SP yesterday for some information about our keycaps.
SP told me they are still in production for while,no ETA now......

[Puddsy]

I write to SP yesterday for some information about our keycaps.
SP told me they are still in production for while,no ETA now......

Very odd... hope this gets sorted soon

[hoq]

I write to SP yesterday for some information about our keycaps.
SP told me they are still in production for while,no ETA now......

Very odd... hope this gets sorted soon

Last week SP told me they were still aiming for completion at the end of Nov, but it seems something wrong with the molds these days.

[hoq]

SP have got them done and shipping out to Hong Kong now.
I guess I can get them in Jan and send out in Feb....

[ricyuyc]

SP have got them done and shipping out to Hong Kong now.
I guess I can get them in Jan and send out in Feb....

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They are awesome. Thanks for progress update and pic. sharing.