I'd zfrontier going to get an updated pricing? It's still 168 for the base kit.
This. Will place an order once the pricing has been revised.
i thinks thats the final price,
zfront always set higher price due to free shipping (DHL express)
and zfront launched their GB page after the cut price announced
but 30$ different is still too much i think. usually arround 30?
It's definitely too much, especially once you add more kits. In comparison, calm depths is a much more reasonable $20 difference
Crossposted from Reddit:
I got a statement from them about it. It's gonna be a long explanation, so be prepared.
So basically what happened was something within the profit margins. So how it broke down into X% of the base price ($168 on ZF) goes to the designer, me (the designer share), if it is 10% $16.80 would go to me, 5% $8.40, and etc. Then a large part of that goes into GMK actually making the keyset. Leaving the rest going into shipping and the profits to ZF. I'm sure this was already known to some extent, but there's a few factors into why it became more expensive on ZF. One of them is that ZF needs a higher price in order to break even or profit compared to Kono (remember shipping is included here and that also accounts for the designer share). So if ZF puts the price at $158, they actually will be losing money. Then looking at Calm Depths, to put it simply, the designer share was done differently, rather than it being a percentage from the base price, it is a percentage of the profit ZF makes going into the designer.
So why is Kono lower still? You probably can guess it, but Kono wasn't seeking as high of a profit margin is one reason I'd imagine, and I actually speculated that they aren't making that much off this set after seeing the price cut.
Either way I'm sorry it turned out like this for the guys in Asia, I really am.
Any further questions, feel free to reply here.
I am going to see if there's anything I can do right now actually, since I feel bad I caused this to happen.
So how's this looking as far as MOQ goes?
I wish it was a lot better tbh, let's just say that. I will stay optimistic though regardless and even if this doesn't succeed right now, there's always another time!