He actually answered emptythecache directly in this post.
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emptythecache: Maybe I missed it, but what is the current status?
emptythecache: Does SP have our order?
7bit: YES.
emptythecache: Have they started production?
7bit: MAYBE.
emptythecache: If not, what is holding us up?
7bit: Preparing production (3900 different kinds of key caps)
emptythecache: Have we paid in full? (The answer to this SHOULD be yes, since we are almost a month after the "pay in full" deadline)
7bit: By the end of this week we are at 90% payment including shipping.
emptythecache: I really hope your answer has something concrete like dates, instead of "soon" and a repost of the leftover list. I've been waiting a very long time and given you a large portion of my money on faith. I'm not asking for my keys tomorrow, I just want to be assured we're making progress.
7bit: Production will take a month and a half and the only information I've got is they wanted to start with the DCS keys last week.
That was October 4th.
Like DeathAdder said, the scope of the GB was probably just too big. But emptythecache, you are being impatient now.
I mentioned that answer directly in my post, for what it's worth. and yeah, I am probably being a little impatient. I was just saying its frustrating.
Have people forgotten this is R4? Pay up then pray to baby jeebus each night that your keys will arrive. They will get here eventually. Just chillax.
I paid up months ago, and know my keys will arrive eventually. I'm putting just as much faith in this as the rest of you. But you know this is actually crazy, right? Handing a stranger hundreds or thousands of dollars, and then sitting for months going "nah, it's cool, I'm know it'll come through eventually," is crazy. Frankly, as much money as we've all spent on keyboards and keycaps is crazy in the first place, and the willingness to throw a big sum of money at maybe having keycaps months and months later is at least an order of magnitude moreso.
And deathadder, no my monetary risk isn't what 7bit's is, but that's because I'm not running the group buy. I didn't go out of my way to give myself that risk in hopes of profiting.
