This set is going through zFrontier? That's a bummer, really wanted to get in on this.
Oh you prefer to wait more than a year to have this?
Maxkeys are the ones who make the keys, OP is choosing zFrontier to proxy the orders. The reason I don't like zFrontier is because their "customer service" is atrocious. They don't seem to care about this community.
I definitely know what is Maxkey and what is zFrontier.
For the customer service, you might be a bit wrong on this, they are fixing every problem they have with the international shop, they changed their policy to satisfy the customers, afaik they fixed every problem. I guess your are referring to the double 5-5 of the GMK Ocean Dolch that was fixed by zF, they had to change their policy but they did so. If you are referring to other, feel free to write it.
For the ''WHY" it is pretty simple, since OP can't/won't run the GB directly he has to go for a vendor. zF is the only Vendor that make this easy. Unless a good vendor will jump in and say "hey OP I will run the GB for you", thing that probably will not happen, zf is the only one safe bet here.
Without even talking about Maxkey MOQ, usually should be around 200 orders. Unless this set will be very popular, it is hard to reach even 150 orders with EU/US shops and there aren't many shops that can buy all the extras, while zF can do it. Also, with him it is pretty easy to reach the MOQ since he can sell directly worldwide (no proxy, china included, etc..)
The way you said it, it didn't seem like you knew what you were talking about. As for the vendors, I don't understand why you say a "good" vendor would approach this. From what I've seen, the person with the idea seeks for someone to run the gb through. On rare occasions I actually see a vendor jump in and say "Hey!!!! Let me run this for you!!!!!". I can see the whole thing with moq, but I personally don't like zFrontier and won't support them, it's my opinion and how I feel. I'm only one person so why does my little opinion matter so much?
>The way you said it, it didn't seem like you knew what you were talking about.
Rofl why, you just dropped the ''You know nothing, Jon Snow '' randomly :thinking:
Yeah the person running the GB usually seeks for someone to run it if he can't, so why OP should bother, having multiple NO by vendors if zF that is a good vendor is already ok, and mainly is a INTERNATIONAL vendor (so OP doesn't need 2+ proxy).
I do believe you can have any opinion you want, i mean if you say ''I don't like X" i'm fine with this, i'm not discussing this, i'm just answering you because you wrote:
The reason I don't like zFrontier is because their "customer service" is atrocious. They don't seem to care about this community
and to me this seems like unfounded accusation and for this i asked you if there is any case of unfixed problem about zF that i might be not aware of. For example i saw people accusing zF for a DHL fault that is honestly hilarious ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ so at this point i don't really know what is your real reason behind your hate towards them.
On a side note, whatever if you want to skip a set that you like because of the picked vendor, well i don't understand you but feel free to do so
(yeah as SiegeTowers said, i was trying to convince you to join the GB)
Peace!