[GB]EXENT - 65% made by TARO (In production)

[Traveler]

I PM'd yuktsi on Tuesday to try to get some information on premium kits, haven't gotten a response.

I was considering doing the same. I was going to wait until 3/10; that would have been a complete month since he said anything here. And at the rate things have been going I'm pretty sure we'll hit that mark.

[xondat]

I PM'd yuktsi on Tuesday to try to get some information on premium kits, haven't gotten a response.

(S)He is too busy responding to the people in the TGR-910 buy.

He. I believe the picture is Jane, who he named the TKL after? Could be wrong.

I think it's fair for him to manage his own group buy.

However, all fairness has just disappeared when juahenza forgot about this

[TerryMathews]

I PM'd yuktsi on Tuesday to try to get some information on premium kits, haven't gotten a response.

(S)He is too busy responding to the people in the TGR-910 buy.

He. I believe the picture is Jane, who he named the TKL after? Could be wrong.

I think it's fair for him to manage his own group buy.

However, all fairness has just disappeared when juahenza forgot about this

Yuktsi is the T(GR) in TARO - it's his or her buy too.

[TerryMathews]

I PM'd yuktsi on Tuesday to try to get some information on premium kits, haven't gotten a response.

(S)He is too busy responding to the people in the TGR-910 buy.

He. I believe the picture is Jane, who he named the TKL after? Could be wrong.

I think it's fair for him to manage his own group buy.

However, all fairness has just disappeared when juahenza forgot about this

Yuktsi is the T(GR) in TARO - it's his or her buy too.

[xondat]

I PM'd yuktsi on Tuesday to try to get some information on premium kits, haven't gotten a response.

(S)He is too busy responding to the people in the TGR-910 buy.

He. I believe the picture is Jane, who he named the TKL after? Could be wrong.

I think it's fair for him to manage his own group buy.

However, all fairness has just disappeared when juahenza forgot about this

Yuktsi is the T(GR) in TARO - it's his or her buy too.

He

But yeah, you're right. (Although I wouldn't say it's RAMA's buy, but we've already beat that topic.)

[TerryMathews]

I PM'd yuktsi on Tuesday to try to get some information on premium kits, haven't gotten a response.

(S)He is too busy responding to the people in the TGR-910 buy.

He. I believe the picture is Jane, who he named the TKL after? Could be wrong.

I think it's fair for him to manage his own group buy.

However, all fairness has just disappeared when juahenza forgot about this

Yuktsi is the T(GR) in TARO - it's his or her buy too.

He

But yeah, you're right. (Although I wouldn't say it's RAMA's buy, but we've already beat that topic.)

We will have to agree to disagree on that topic. That said, Yuktsi's involvement is all over this board. The PCB is exactly the same as the TGR-910 one.

[fuzzbomb]

yuktsi did respond to my PM.

"I actually just created a request to my courier to pick them up instead. Will see it goes for the next couple of days."

[eat_the_food]

[RocketGruntJake]

Making us all jealous man, great shot. The pink ano came out so vibrant.

[Data]

That photo's not creepy at all.  No sir.

[Traveler]

yuktsi did respond to my PM.

"I actually just created a request to my courier to pick them up instead. Will see it goes for the next couple of days."

Was this the PM about the Premium kits? So he's having his courier pick up the GMK sets + switches?

[fuzzbomb]

yuktsi did respond to my PM.

"I actually just created a request to my courier to pick them up instead. Will see it goes for the next couple of days."

Was this the PM about the Premium kits? So he's having his courier pick up the GMK sets + switches?

That's right. I'm not sure, I just copy/pasted...those two sentences are the entire PM.

[Traveler]

That's right. I'm not sure, I just copy/pasted...those two sentences are the entire PM.

Nice. Very interesting, albeit a bit vague. At this point I'll take anything I can get though. Wonder where it's being picked up from. Hopefully an office nearby; surely not from Sheraton's place.

[ctzn_voyager]

Anyone else with an alu bottom not get their tracking yet?

[wtzll]

Anyone else with an alu bottom not get their tracking yet?

Me.

[foxlive]

Anyone else with an alu bottom not get their tracking yet?

Me.

Yeah but still no update on this POS Malaysia code for you too I think

[ricyuyc]

Anyone else with an alu bottom not get their tracking yet?

Me.

I paid for premium kit with both silver alu and black alu bottom. No tracking inform received yet.

[energyd]

Is this Tuhai & Co.? If so I got my invoice as well, but it didn't have any product details so I wasn't sure

Yep, that's the one.

That's curious! Mine didn't come from Tuhai and Co, it's from someone named REDACTED instead. Confused!

REDACTED

Mine is REDACTED and NTW Keyboards too, I think it must be because we're both in Europe?

Was yours sent with Pos Malaysia too?

Mine was also from REDACTED. Pos Malaysia too.

Mine is also from REDACTED but the tracking number did not show up in either Pos Malaysia or SF express..How do you know which shipper is it? I'm in the US.

[demorior]

i know it's a long shot but any resolution on what's happening for those who received cracked poly bottoms?

[TerryMathews]

i know it's a long shot but any resolution on what's happening for those who received cracked poly bottoms?

AFAIK it's been radio silence on this issues (cracked poly, missing stabs) for quite a while now.

[demorior]

i know it's a long shot but any resolution on what's happening for those who received cracked poly bottoms?

AFAIK it's been radio silence on this issues (cracked poly, missing stabs) for quite a while now.

hoping it gets addressed soon but i know that's asking a lot

[d.caminero]

I wouldn't expect anything about cracked bottoms, faulty PCB's and missing stabs in less than 6 months, but we'll see. People with premium kits still haven't received their tracking and this is being even more ridiculous than it's been before.

[MaNiFeX]

I wouldn't expect anything about cracked bottoms, faulty PCB's and missing stabs in less than 6 months, but we'll see. People with premium kits still haven't received their tracking and this is being even more ridiculous than it's been before.

Considering this project has four well known community members, you think someone would step up and take a leadership role here.  RAMA, TGR, Originative, and Aconic all have their names on this group buy...  You think one of them could set the record straight here.

[d.caminero]

Considering this project has four well known community members, you think someone would step up and take a leadership role here.  RAMA, TGR, Originative, and Aconic all have their names on this group buy...  You think one of them could set the record straight here.

Although this would be repeating the discussion (and I'm not saying that I agree or I don't) it's been said that RAMA was just the designer, so I doubt that he would like to take this GB and do something with it. Originative is in the other side of the world AFAIK, so they can't do much either. I think this is now more of dodging the ****storm than to solve our problems as their customers. This is not the first ****-up for some of them and they are still "prestigious" in the community, so I doubt they care about this affecting their reputation. It's just not fair for us because we have no power at all or any way to enforce anything of them. We can only wait and praise they fulfill our orders and solve our problems. Unless we go to every thread, page, forum, etc and start spamming their products, buys and whatever with comments regarding this, but we all know how this ends in GH

[PancakeMSTR]

Considering this project has four well known community members, you think someone would step up and take a leadership role here.  RAMA, TGR, Originative, and Aconic all have their names on this group buy...  You think one of them could set the record straight here.

Although this would be repeating the discussion (and I'm not saying that I agree or I don't) it's been said that RAMA was just the designer, so I doubt that he would like to take this GB and do something with it. Originative is in the other side of the world AFAIK, so they can't do much either. I think this is now more of dodging the ****storm than to solve our problems as their customers. This is not the first ****-up for some of them and they are still "prestigious" in the community, so I doubt they care about this affecting their reputation. It's just not fair for us because we have no power at all or any way to enforce anything of them. We can only wait and praise they fulfill our orders and solve our problems. Unless we go to every thread, page, forum, etc and start spamming their products, buys and whatever with comments regarding this, but we all know how this ends in GH

Well I can tell you that none of those names are prestigious to me anymore, and all of them have lost me as a customer, permanently. And I have money to throw around when it comes to mechanical keyboards.

E.g. I deliberately avoided originative recently for something as simple as genuine cherry stabilizers. I won't buy anything from any of these guys ever again, I don't care how ancillary their role in this was. No one wants to take responsibility, and that's unacceptable behavior to me.

[MaNiFeX]

No one wants to take responsibility, and that's unacceptable behavior to me.

That's my point.  Yuktsi, of all the names attached to this GB, has been the most responsive and available to me.  E-mail and PMs responded to quickly, fairly regular updates in the forum, and has worked with me on changing my shipping address.

At this point, it sounds that most just want issues addressed and approximate schedules updated.  It's really not that much and I don't know why it's so difficult to address a few things.  Unfortunately, the damage is seemingly done. 

My hopes are that everyone that has received bad PCBs and cracked bottoms are taken care of, at least.  It seems these kinds of things have happened on GH before and hence the caveat emptor.  Let's keep our fingers crossed that someone will right this ship.   

[Vigrith]

That's my point.  Yuktsi, of all the names attached to this GB, has been the most responsive and available to me.  E-mail and PMs responded to quickly, fairly regular updates in the forum, and has worked with me on changing my shipping address.

Juahenza seems to have perished, Originative is across the world and Rama has nothing to do with the project except them having used his (unfinished) design - Yuktsi seems to be able and willing to work toward getting this sorted and as much as I imagine he wants to do right by people, he also has his 910 GB he's been working toward finishing.

Far as I'm aware he has a few units of that to ship out and then it should be a wrap, I'm not "in the know" of his work ethic but I'd figure after that he'll get back to actively sorting through this. Hopefully the aluminium bottom basics will all be arriving and premium kits finally ship out so that the people with faulty parts can get taken care of.

[Traveler]

Juahenza seems to have perished, Originative is across the world and Rama has nothing to do with the project except them having used his (unfinished) design - Yuktsi seems to be the only one actually able and willing to work toward getting this sorted and as much as I imagine he wants to do right by people, he also has his 910 GB he's been working toward finishing.

I was a bit hesitant about saying that myself, but those are my thoughts exactly. Pretty sure Juahenza has completely abandoned this project. Yuktsi is our only hope, and I think this GB is low on his list of priorities. But with him being our last hope I'm trying to be patient. As long as there's progress being made I won't complain, but it's hard to know what is or isn't being done without updates. I'm not expecting any going forward though. Only updates will be the info we share among each other.

[RocketGruntJake]

Do we know why the tracking seems to be going without any updates? Has anyone with an aluminum bottom seen their tracking move?

[foxlive]

Do we know why the tracking seems to be going without any updates? Has anyone with an aluminum bottom seen their tracking move?

Still empty for me!

[Cerasis]

Do we know why the tracking seems to be going without any updates? Has anyone with an aluminum bottom seen their tracking move?

Still empty for me as well, but I am not sure if yuktsi is going to consolidate my order since i had mine split in shipping.

[dead_pixel_design]

I heard that mine are going to be sent separately because they don't have everything for my premium yet and will be shipping that later out of pocket

[Saiph]

Do we know why the tracking seems to be going without any updates? Has anyone with an aluminum bottom seen their tracking move?

For my non premium kit I received the tracking number a pretty long time before they actually started shipping it. It was a few weeks at least, don't remember exactly. When it started shipping it arrived very quickly though, I think it was less than a week.

[MaNiFeX]

Do we know why the tracking seems to be going without any updates? Has anyone with an aluminum bottom seen their tracking move?

'Record not found.'   

[Data]

Do we know why the tracking seems to be going without any updates? Has anyone with an aluminum bottom seen their tracking move?

Yes...  They did this with the first wave of shipments too.  Just because you have a tracking number doesn't mean the parcel is in possession of a mail carrier.  Most (all?) of the shipping companies will let you print a label for drop-off or pick-up at some undetermined future date.  And that's exactly what's taking place now.  Whoever has the labeled packages needs to drop them off or schedule the pick-up.  I don't know how it works in SE Asia, but in the US we call that just being ****ing lazy.

[chromatically]

Do we know why the tracking seems to be going without any updates? Has anyone with an aluminum bottom seen their tracking move?

Yes...  They did this with the first wave of shipments too.  Just because you have a tracking number doesn't mean the parcel is in possession of a mail carrier.  Most (all?) of the shipping companies will let you print a label for drop-off or pick-up at some undetermined future date.  And that's exactly what's taking place now.  Whoever has the labeled packages needs to drop them off or schedule the pick-up.  I don't know how it works in SE Asia, but in the US we call that just being ****ing lazy.

They're probably sitting on someone's desk just like the GMK keycaps for premium kits any day now...

[gumeraser]

Got a PM from juahenza today. He just received the GMK caps! All remaining orders will ship by end of next week! 

GET READY

[Vigrith]

Got a PM from juahenza today. He just received the GMK caps! All remaining orders will ship by end of next week! 

GET READY

It's a Christmas miracle.

Easter miracle?

Miracle.

PS: you best not be trolling homie, I will clap cheeks.

[Traveler]

It's a Christmas miracle.

Easter miracle?

Miracle.

PS: you best not be trolling homie, I will clap cheeks.

Nothing wrong with being optimistic, but regarding this group buy I'd be suprise by anything that even resembles a miracle lol.

I'm not sure how to say this politely, so eh: I have doubts about the validity of this guy's statement. This is the same guy who said Juahenza was going to start offering refunds after Feb. 22 (which never came to pass, at least not publicly). I've asked him when Juahenza said that and he never responded to me. If I'm looking at the site right Juahenza hasn't been on geekhack since Feb. 7, so unless Juahenza is PM'ing this guy via a different method it doesn't sound too legit to me.

[Vigrith]

This is the same guy who said Juahenza was going to start offering refunds after Feb. 22 (which never came to pass, at least not publicly).

gdi

[xondat]

Got a PM from juahenza today. He just received the GMK caps! All remaining orders will ship by end of next week! 

GET READY

It's a Christmas miracle.

Easter miracle?

Miracle.

PS: you best not be trolling homie, I will clap cheeks.

Some cheeks are getting clapped

[gutsack]

I'm not sure how to say this politely, so eh: I have doubts about the validity of this guy's statement. This is the same guy who said Juahenza was going to start offering refunds after Feb. 22 (which never came to pass, at least not publicly). I've asked him when Juahenza said that and he never responded to me. If I'm looking at the site right Juahenza hasn't been on geekhack since Feb. 7, so unless Juahenza is PM'ing this guy via a different method it doesn't sound too legit to me.

Doubts here as well. He claimed to receive a PM from Juahenza about refunds and then he claimed to receive a refund but is still PMing Juahenza about shipping? Also, countless people in this thread have PMed Juahenza without reply (myself included) and Juahenza hasn't been active here in a month.

On top of that, if you look at this guy's post history it's 26 posts in a total of two threads—this one and the recent Revo GB wherein he's just screaming at everyone about how Revo and Originative should go to hell.



[Edits to remove typos]

[Cerasis]

I'd like to know how you received a PM with him being offline for a month.

[Photoelectric]

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A+  Oddly hypnotic.  Would print and frame. 

[foxlive]

Second miracle ! My tracking as moved for my base exent with alu bottom! I am so ****ing excited!

[Cerasis]

POS Malaysia or SF Express?

Mine's POS and hasn't shown up on the carrier yet.

[dr_derivative]

POS Malaysia or SF Express?

Mine's POS and hasn't shown up on the carrier yet.

Mine's POS Malaysia too and it hasn't shown up either

[foxlive]

POS Malaysia or SF Express?

Mine's POS and hasn't shown up on the carrier yet.

It is POS Malaysia for me and since today it says «Item posted over the counter»!

[Cerasis]

POS Malaysia or SF Express?

Mine's POS and hasn't shown up on the carrier yet.

It is POS Malaysia for me and since today it says «Item posted over the counter»!

That is a bit of good news. Hopefully it starts rolling out soon. Yuktsi mentioned some sort of warehouse in my small exchange with him through pm, totally possible they're starting to move out by the end of this week.

[canigetanipa]

Hello Yuktsi, please cancel my order #0407. Thanks, I have also pm'd you and emailed you.