i think this is completely uncalled for. after all, those keys are made by SP, i really don't understand what your problem is, when the SP system hasn't even been tested. if it fails, i can perfectly understand these picks at them, but i really don't get why you have to do this BEFORE it does. i for one am really curious as to how it plays out.
why do you want it to fail?
I've been here for more than 3 years and been in nearly everyone of their Group Buys, they have stuffed up major orders not by us picking the wrong items but simply because they were incapable of following our choice and directions. Now anyone that kept on refusing to listen usually gets their arse kicked in the real world but because SP is the ONLY key-cap manufacturer in the United States we were all forced to endure that type of service.
I know you only joined recently and never were around all those years ago but this is a company that seems to keep making the same basic mistakes that most normal corporations would iron out and eliminate. So before you start becoming their number one star supporter always know their history FIRST before making any final conclusions.
Besides after manufacturing the next MOST important job is sorting and distribution, and most of the experienced members here can do it with their eyes shut but SP is now wanting to do it? What happens when your items don't arrive, what happens when the keys aren't sent or wrong ones packed or too few sent? I suspect the majority here will soon find out exactly what SP is all about, I just wish I had a camera to take the picture of their faces, when they released something's wrong
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The main reason why Geekhack Group Buys works is because of many years of conducting and initiating them, now leaving it all to one sorrowful company to do everything that's been done here for a lower cost, just screams for failure on a major scale. Plus if anything is wrong with your order, who can you contact to correct it? Here it's the Group Buy organizers and they know their job but relying on Melissa to sort out any mess created by her company is asking her to do too much already.
That is why if the original Group Buy system here on Geekhack has worked for years why the urgent need to fix something that was never broken to begin with? Always stick with what works and why the need to change. Now comes the pleasure of sitting back and watching how everything will turn out with this venture because some people like to find out the hard way
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