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Re: Clear keycap storage cases on EliteKeyboard
« Reply #50 on: Sun, 02 November 2014, 14:26:51 »
The only thing to watch is shipping costs.  I was going to buy a set of the keycaps, including storage box, when they first came out, but shipping costs to Australia were silly.

I eventually went halves with another GH member in the US who ordered and kept the box, and sent just the keycaps to me.

Now I keep them in a zip lock back.
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Re: Clear keycap storage cases on EliteKeyboard
« Reply #51 on: Tue, 04 November 2014, 18:45:51 »
Does anyone know at all who is the Chinese OEM who makes such things? I bet these cost $0.50 at the factory with MOQ 1000, and if anyone from Singapore wants to organize a group buy like this I will happily buy 200 to help meet MOQ. Even if as some posters have noted the cases are not very sturdy, if price is low enough we can buy more and throw away the used cases after a couple years.

Elitekeyboards' pricing is just too sucky for now.
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Re: Clear keycap storage cases on EliteKeyboard
« Reply #52 on: Wed, 05 November 2014, 09:07:35 »
Does anyone know at all who is the Chinese OEM who makes such things? I bet these cost $0.50 at the factory with MOQ 1000, and if anyone from Singapore wants to organize a group buy like this I will happily buy 200 to help meet MOQ. Even if as some posters have noted the cases are not very sturdy, if price is low enough we can buy more and throw away the used cases after a couple years.

Elitekeyboards' pricing is just too sucky for now.

Something like this would be great to do at a KeyCon -- get a huge order together, and when everyone meets, divvy them up.
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Re: Clear keycap storage cases on EliteKeyboard
« Reply #53 on: Wed, 05 November 2014, 10:19:43 »
Does anyone know at all who is the Chinese OEM who makes such things? I bet these cost $0.50 at the factory with MOQ 1000, and if anyone from Singapore wants to organize a group buy like this I will happily buy 200 to help meet MOQ. Even if as some posters have noted the cases are not very sturdy, if price is low enough we can buy more and throw away the used cases after a couple years.

Elitekeyboards' pricing is just too sucky for now.

Something like this would be great to do at a KeyCon -- get a huge order together, and when everyone meets, divvy them up.

This doesn't work for those not CONUS of course, but I really encourage people to do their group buys at keycons. There should be a huge savings on postage, and not to mention, we get to crowdsource all that keycap sorting. What would take one guy 10 hours to do alone, will take 1 hour with 10 friends, and not to mention time will pass faster since everyone is talking.

I urge further development of keycons along these lines!
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Re: Clear keycap storage cases on EliteKeyboard
« Reply #54 on: Wed, 05 November 2014, 10:27:15 »
Does anyone know at all who is the Chinese OEM who makes such things? I bet these cost $0.50 at the factory with MOQ 1000, and if anyone from Singapore wants to organize a group buy like this I will happily buy 200 to help meet MOQ. Even if as some posters have noted the cases are not very sturdy, if price is low enough we can buy more and throw away the used cases after a couple years.

Elitekeyboards' pricing is just too sucky for now.

Something like this would be great to do at a KeyCon -- get a huge order together, and when everyone meets, divvy them up.

This doesn't work for those not CONUS of course, but I really encourage people to do their group buys at keycons. There should be a huge savings on postage, and not to mention, we get to crowdsource all that keycap sorting. What would take one guy 10 hours to do alone, will take 1 hour with 10 friends, and not to mention time will pass faster since everyone is talking.

I urge further development of keycons along these lines!

I don't think the turn outs have been big enough to make that much of a difference in shipping group buy items. Unless the items were unrealistically heavy or something then it might make a difference.