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Offline PlayKeyboardTW

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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #500 on: Mon, 29 April 2019, 22:20:08 »
Hi guys. After another half a month, we eventually can have another update to this.
We know all of you have been guessing.

First of all, we need to let you guys know what happened during these days.
And hope you guys will understand these are kind of situations that we can't tell all our customers directly.
Since our guy has spent almost 2 month there in the factory, so much housework is awaiting for him to get back to deal with.
It will be fair for him to let all of you know we are really putting ourselves into CA66, and what has occurred.

China is now strictly regulating all anodizing factories at the moment. Especially about industrial wastewater.
The one we are working with is located in Guangdong.
Earlier there was a factory discharging wastewater secretly, not going through a treatment to reduce pollution.
And it was reported by someone to government, which lead to 15 days shutting down of all factories of that area.
So we wasn't able to take rest of cases back (most was done), until yesterday.
That's why we couldn't really post some updates which we really want to. There were so many variables for not letting us to confirm timelines with all of you. :(

Based on the successful first round CA66 groupbuy. We hope you can understand it's not about time management, or we stalk the process intentionally.
All stuffs we mentioned above were not expected, and this is our first time to deal with them.
We just want to make things perfect, then send them away to your hands safely.

Finally these are coming to an end. :) Here's a quick progress and timeline to you.
1. All works were done except white cases.
2. We will start to ship orders out after May 1st, which is the Labor Day of China. So it will be on May 3rd or 4th.
3. White cases will be done during we send first batch orders out.
4. Shipping number might be updated slower on your order of our site. It means it might be on it's way already and we need time to key in the number.

Thanks for all things hearing from you, comments, messages, emails, etc.
We are grateful for all believes. :)
« Last Edit: Mon, 29 April 2019, 22:48:43 by PlayKeyboardTW »

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« Reply #501 on: Mon, 29 April 2019, 22:25:21 »
I always had faith in you guys :) Thanks so much for the work. Bad news on my end though...I got a White case. Hope the delays on that are only for a few days! 

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« Reply #502 on: Mon, 29 April 2019, 23:40:34 »
I always had faith in you guys :) Thanks so much for the work. Bad news on my end though...I got a White case. Hope the delays on that are only for a few days!
Same here! ...

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« Reply #503 on: Mon, 29 April 2019, 23:47:38 »
Thanks for the updates guys !! Looking forward to this !

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« Reply #504 on: Wed, 01 May 2019, 08:01:34 »
Nice to see the end is now in sight, excited for the white ones to start to ship out. Thanks for all the hard work that seems to have been going on behind the scenes @PlayKeyboardTW

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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #505 on: Fri, 03 May 2019, 08:17:12 »
Hi guys. We are packing now. ;)
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« Reply #506 on: Fri, 03 May 2019, 08:23:36 »
I am getting very excited now!

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« Reply #507 on: Fri, 03 May 2019, 08:25:04 »
Hi guys. We are packing now. ;)
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Here we go! Sorry to hear about what happened with the anodization factory. Thanks for telling us what happened even if just as an interesting fact along your journey of making these boards!

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« Reply #508 on: Sat, 04 May 2019, 01:41:30 »
Great to hear. Keen to finally get my new keyboard!

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« Reply #509 on: Sat, 04 May 2019, 08:45:39 »
If someone wanted to sell his, let me know

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« Reply #510 on: Tue, 07 May 2019, 20:58:38 »
Anyone get a tracking number or anything like that already?

Offline Lyle88

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« Reply #511 on: Tue, 07 May 2019, 21:17:42 »
Anyone get a tracking number or anything like that already?
I'm part of the group that ordered white and will have to wait longer for anodising so no

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« Reply #512 on: Tue, 07 May 2019, 22:42:03 »
Kinda worried about when it ships, since I leave the country for a few months on the 17th :(

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« Reply #513 on: Wed, 08 May 2019, 02:25:50 »
Kinda worried about when it ships, since I leave the country for a few months on the 17th :(
You will get notice when shipping

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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #514 on: Wed, 08 May 2019, 09:43:39 »
quick Q, did anyone get an email of their colour choice for their plate yet? haven't gotten anything unless one hasn't been sent out yet?

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« Reply #515 on: Wed, 08 May 2019, 21:40:29 »
quick Q, did anyone get an email of their colour choice for their plate yet? haven't gotten anything unless one hasn't been sent out yet?
The color of plate was chosen when people joined GB, wasn't it?

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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #516 on: Wed, 08 May 2019, 21:42:14 »
quick Q, did anyone get an email of their colour choice for their plate yet? haven't gotten anything unless one hasn't been sent out yet?
The color of plate was chosen when people joined GB, wasn't it?
yep that's correct. please check your order confirmation email.

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« Reply #517 on: Wed, 08 May 2019, 21:43:10 »
quick Q, did anyone get an email of their colour choice for their plate yet? haven't gotten anything unless one hasn't been sent out yet?
The color of plate was chosen when people joined GB, wasn't it?
That's what I thought. But I have a vague recollection that if you added an extra alu plate maybe you couldn't choose the color of the extra one

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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #518 on: Wed, 08 May 2019, 23:37:12 »
quick Q, did anyone get an email of their colour choice for their plate yet? haven't gotten anything unless one hasn't been sent out yet?
The color of plate was chosen when people joined GB, wasn't it?
That's what I thought. But I have a vague recollection that if you added an extra alu plate maybe you couldn't choose the color of the extra one

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Correct, extra plates did not have a color choice option. Barry sent out an email back in September for people to pick plate colors for the extra plates.

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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #519 on: Thu, 09 May 2019, 04:29:47 »
Guys. All things are pretty much packed up.
We are now having a little negotiation with the company responsible for our shipping, and waiting for them to pick up packages for us.

Some environmental staffs of local government are still checking factories in this area for illegal activities.
It will take a couple more days for us to bring white cases back from factory doing electrophoresis for us.
We hope this ends quickly. :)
« Last Edit: Thu, 09 May 2019, 04:31:53 by PlayKeyboardTW »

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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #520 on: Thu, 09 May 2019, 05:53:20 »
Guys. All things are pretty much packed up.
We are now having a little negotiation with the company responsible for our shipping, and waiting for them to pick up packages for us.

Some environmental staffs of local government are still checking factories in this area for illegal activities.
It will take a couple more days for us to bring white cases back from factory doing electrophoresis for us.
We hope this ends quickly. :)

Appreciate the update. Looking forward to getting my keyboard!
Been a good day for updates with my Norbatouch case nearly ready for shipping too. :D

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« Reply #521 on: Thu, 09 May 2019, 07:57:56 »
Hi guys. We are packing now. ;)

sweet. i actually see my number there!
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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #522 on: Thu, 09 May 2019, 15:13:09 »
quick Q, did anyone get an email of their colour choice for their plate yet? haven't gotten anything unless one hasn't been sent out yet?
The color of plate was chosen when people joined GB, wasn't it?
That's what I thought. But I have a vague recollection that if you added an extra alu plate maybe you couldn't choose the color of the extra one

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Correct, extra plates did not have a color choice option. Barry sent out an email back in September for people to pick plate colors for the extra plates.

Didn't get anything since the order confirmation. Only joined for the BT PCB and an aluminium plate, no case. Will drop barry a msg.

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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #523 on: Thu, 09 May 2019, 23:05:10 »
Would anyone like to sell me their BT PCB and any color plate? Or willing to trade a unused regular PCB +cash for a BT variant!
(or would take anyone's spot)

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« Reply #524 on: Fri, 10 May 2019, 08:56:14 »
[H] PayPal, PCB [W] BT PCB

Offline Jonathan0903

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« Reply #525 on: Sun, 12 May 2019, 20:00:29 »
Anybody get tracking info yet?

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« Reply #526 on: Mon, 13 May 2019, 05:46:07 »
No tacking for me yet.

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« Reply #527 on: Mon, 13 May 2019, 14:42:37 »
I am selling my spot. HHKB red with gold. If anyone is interested then please dm via my email or discord CybeeL1 #7893. Thank you!

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« Reply #528 on: Mon, 13 May 2019, 16:19:00 »
Still interested in selling my spot as well. White HHKB with extra Bluetooth pcb, and brass plate.

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« Reply #529 on: Tue, 14 May 2019, 09:07:28 »
any extra pcbs? i need to buy 2 hahah

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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #530 on: Thu, 16 May 2019, 17:48:51 »
Any updates on shipping?

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« Reply #531 on: Thu, 16 May 2019, 19:34:08 »
A new update would be appreciated. Any news?

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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #532 on: Sat, 18 May 2019, 05:43:54 »
Hi again! Those government staffs stayed longer than we expected.
We kinda couldn't really do anything about it. So we decided to spend time double checking everyone's package.
And we sent out the first batch (around 110+ sets) earlier today to the shipping company.
They are sorting out shipping addresses, so it will take a bit time for tracking numbers to be out.
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Also, white cases are done. :thumb:
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We'll be back when anything comes up for you guys. ;)
Really, really thanks for the waiting from all of you.

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« Reply #533 on: Sat, 18 May 2019, 05:49:55 »
Hi again! Those government staffs stayed longer than we expected.
We kinda couldn't really do anything about it. So we decided to spend time double checking everyone's package.
And we sent out the first batch (around 110+ sets) earlier today to the shipping company.
They are sorting out shipping addresses, so it will take a bit time for tracking numbers to be out.
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Also, white cases are done. :thumb:
(Attachment Link) (Attachment Link)

We'll be back when anything comes up for you guys. ;)
Really, really thanks for the waiting from all of you.
Thanks for the update
The white cases look a bit creamy.
Can you take a photo in brighter lighting?

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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #534 on: Sat, 18 May 2019, 08:10:55 »
Better photos under a better light source:
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« Reply #535 on: Sat, 18 May 2019, 08:12:22 »
Hi again! Those government staffs stayed longer than we expected.
We kinda couldn't really do anything about it. So we decided to spend time double checking everyone's package.
And we sent out the first batch (around 110+ sets) earlier today to the shipping company.
They are sorting out shipping addresses, so it will take a bit time for tracking numbers to be out.
(Attachment Link)

Also, white cases are done. :thumb:
(Attachment Link) (Attachment Link)

We'll be back when anything comes up for you guys. ;)
Really, really thanks for the waiting from all of you.

Yay! Getting really close now it sounds like. Hope I’m in the first batch

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« Reply #536 on: Sat, 18 May 2019, 08:27:00 »
Better photos under a better light source:
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Beautiful! Thanks!

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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #537 on: Sat, 18 May 2019, 08:41:03 »
Thanks for the pictures!
How glossy are those white cases? I remember that earlier samples of the white case were too glossy for your taste, but it’s so tough to get a sense of the finish with pictures sometimes.
Thanks!

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« Reply #538 on: Sat, 18 May 2019, 13:08:00 »
Better photos under a better light source:
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Is the bottom one standard silver?  Looks great (the silver, never been a fan of white).
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Re: [GB] CA66 Custom Keyboard Kit Round 2 (Ready to ship in these days)
« Reply #539 on: Sat, 18 May 2019, 20:11:42 »
Thanks for the pictures!
How glossy are those white cases? I remember that earlier samples of the white case were too glossy for your taste, but it’s so tough to get a sense of the finish with pictures sometimes.
Thanks!

You can call it semi-matte. :)

Better photos under a better light source:
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Is the bottom one standard silver?  Looks great (the silver, never been a fan of white).

Yes that's a silver case. ;)

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« Reply #540 on: Sat, 18 May 2019, 20:14:05 »
Any updates on when white case orders may go out? They look beautiful!

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« Reply #541 on: Sun, 19 May 2019, 10:56:18 »
I'm interested if someone is wanting to get rid of theirs.. preferably dark gray. Shoot me a PM  :)

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« Reply #542 on: Sun, 19 May 2019, 22:01:08 »
Looks amazing! I'm glad I switched colors to the white <3

Keep up all the good work, and can't wait to start building

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« Reply #543 on: Sun, 19 May 2019, 22:06:30 »
Thanks for the update
The white cases look a bit creamy.
Can you take a photo in brighter lighting?

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Creamy? If only it were true   ^-^

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« Reply #544 on: Wed, 22 May 2019, 16:17:00 »
I'm looking for either a spot, a dark grey case or a BT PCB+Plate. If you have any or multiple of the aforementioned, feel free to dm me.

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« Reply #545 on: Thu, 23 May 2019, 16:17:30 »
Could you please put .dwg file for Alps plate?

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« Reply #546 on: Fri, 24 May 2019, 00:14:50 »
Where will we get our shipping tracking number. Will it be e-mailed or is it through the playkeyboard website?

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« Reply #547 on: Fri, 24 May 2019, 01:21:25 »
Could you please put .dwg file for Alps plate?

You can find old pate files in here: https://goo.gl/DXNwqL
New plate files will be uploaded after GB is done. :thumb:

Where will we get our shipping tracking number. Will it be e-mailed or is it through the playkeyboard website?

On the website of your order. :)
Soon it will be put in.

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« Reply #548 on: Sun, 26 May 2019, 22:55:23 »
Any more updated on status of shipping?

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« Reply #549 on: Sun, 26 May 2019, 23:32:45 »
Any more updated on status of shipping?
I asked yesterday via the chat on their website and they said they hope to start sending out tracking numbers today via email update. It sounded like if you created a login for play-keyboard.store when you joined the GB you might be able to see your tracking number there too

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