Any possibility to have an European proxy, to get a shipment from Europe instead from USA?
After all, GMK is in Germany, and it is crazy (and sad!) for us Europeans to pay custom and shipment two times...
Agreed, if GMK was to be kept within Europe we'd save an insane amount of money, I wish there was a way - making that logistically possible however is probably not going to be very easy.
Yeah this is true, but sadly not how it works. GMK sends out the full bulk shipment to whoever ordered it, in this case to Originative. We are saving money as a group buy because GMK is doing it as a bulk shipment, when they have to start counting sets, sorting them out, and shipping them to multiple places that group buy savings goes way down, price for everyone goes way up. It makes sense, but its no different than when people run buys in the UK from SP and all the sets are shipped there. Maybe one day there will be a good solution to this, I do understand how that would be frustrating.
This is not a vendor sale though they are part of who is running it. This is a GB at a GB price. Originative would be selling it on a retail after GB closes.
Tax I believe is from GMK > US (we all pay) and then US > buyer (EU pay again).
Nope. This is DEFINITELY a vendor sale. Vendors CAN run group buys too ya know. If your logic was the case, Massdrop wouldnt be a vendor haha.
Originative will sell at retail after a group buy for a higher cost, because he shells out his own money to purchase extra sets, and that is a way to recoup the cost and have enough to run the next buy. Im 110% for selling retail sets for a significant amount more than group buy price, to encourage people to join the buy and help everyone save money. There have been times even I've not had money for a buy and known I'd be paying quite a bit more for a set later. I did that for Hyperfuse R2 actually.
Mildy confused here - is ISO removed or not? The OP, kbdist, and Originativeco all show and mention the inclusion of ISO UK caps.
ISO UK has been removed at some time but it is now back into the set. The renders you mention are up to date.
Edit: ISO UK
Yes, all renders are up to date now

What you see is what you get!