had this idea the other day. wondering if it's as much of a trouble for gmk to swap the colorway as the key molds or if it's significantly easier. do they need to clean or adjust the molds for the keys colorway to colorway?
bc if not, wouldn't it make sense to try and running multiple colorways while the machine is prepped for a colevrak run. offer a colevrak kit for a lot of popular sets that didn't offer one or didn't reach moq? then instead of trying to hit something like 50 or 100 of BoW colevrak sets we could try and hit 300-500 colevrak kits across a dozen or so colorways; treating them all as one pooled set. maybe make sure theres at least like 20 or so requests for a specific colorway.
what do you guys think of that? could you ask gmk if that would work?
That would be extremely inefficient and the sets would cost a lot, like a lot more than they normally would.
The MOQ of 150/250 covers the quote, setup cost and packaging for a set in one colorway besides the keycaps.
There's a reason the price only gets reduced when more sets of the same colorway get sold. By your logic every set that uses the same molds again(i.e. Alphas) should get cheaper for every new GMK set that is made.
I asked them about something similar and they told me they can do lower MOQs but the production cost will be distributed evenly on the amount of sets that are going to be made. Even if you used the same molds these production costs would need to paid again for each colorway.
Additionally hitting 300-500 sets seems unrealistic when Colevrak sets struggle to hit MOQ almost every time and it's often the same people buying them. Offering more colorways would probably lower the number of each set even further because you could simply get the colorways you like instead of those more likely to hit MOQ and actually get made.
And I don't see ten people willing to pay for one set that would basically cost 25 sets for a Colevrak set in custom colors when they could just pay for 25 sets and get 25 sets instead.
So sadly, no
Maybe in the future. The hobby is growing and GMK will probably accomodate for that, they're currently working on new tooling to be released next year
