Group Buy Therapy

[SpAmRaY]

To all the awesome and wonderful and committed group buy leaders we have here, we love you, we really do but group buys can be really depressing.

So what can we do while waiting on all the group buys we have to pass the time or make them less of a drag?

[R1N3]

GIFs?

[Cottonsox]

Checking in.

It's been 1 day without an update and i need therapy.

[demik]

stop throwing your money at everything

[Halverson]

stop throwing your money at everything

I only throw my money at you, dolla dolla bills yo

[demik]

stop throwing your money at everything

I only throw my money at you, dolla dolla bills yo

[jdcarpe]

Sometimes we get stuff...

[SpAmRaY]

stop throwing your money at everything

I have really cut back lately and the more I use topre the more I'm realizing mx boards are just going to be wall decorations soon.

Sometimes we get stuff...

that sig is so appropriate!

[byker]

We need more topre group buys

[Michael]

[Moralless]

We need more topre group buys

They can't even make it through the interest checks 

[ShardZer0]

[SpAmRaY]

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brocap group buy? community votes on something they want to see you make, we raise money for it like kickstarter?

[clacktalk]

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this is so ominous

ominous af

[bueller]

I'm much more wary of GB's these days after getting burned in alixinhzai's 60% case GB. Doesn't matter how cool the item for sale is, if you haven't had previous experience running GB's then you won't be getting my cash. Very hesistant to get involved in any GB's that get too big as well, whether it's too many items for sale or too many people buying it just makes things take forever.

[SpAmRaY]

I'm much more wary of GB's these days after getting burned in alixinhzai's 60% case GB. Doesn't matter how cool the item for sale is, if you haven't had previous experience running GB's then you won't be getting my cash. Very hesistant to get involved in any GB's that get too big as well, whether it's too many items for sale or too many people buying it just makes things take forever.

This is what amazes me....almost ANYONE can just throw up an interest check/group buy.....I bet I could make a few thousand dollars with nothing more than a mockup and some good words then skip out....yeah people know where I live but what if I used an alternate account to do it! profit and anonymity.

[rowdy]

stop throwing your money at everything

I have really cut back lately and the more I use topre the more I'm realizing mx boards are just going to be wall decorations soon.

Sometimes we get stuff...

that sig is so appropriate!

Sounds like you need a BS keyboard

[Belfong]

The strong USD is killing my impulse buy with GB, so I'm thankful, in a way. I think I need therapy to stave off this addiction

Good bye TX1800!

[bueller]

The strong USD is killing my impulse buy with GB, so I'm thankful, in a way. I think I need therapy to stave off this addiction

Good bye TX1800!

Yeah that's becoming a pretty massive problem for me as well, paying like 20% more now than I was less than 6 months ago. When you factory in shipping it puts a lot of stuff out of my price range.

[Belfong]

Hyperfuse is probably my last GB until the dollar stabilized. So sad! I'll spend more time in offtopic now.

[bueller]

Hyperfuse is probably my last GB until the dollar stabilized. So sad! I'll spend more time in offtopic now.

Yeah I'll be the same, still trying to figure out my money for the month but I'm definitely buying that set.

[Kira]

stop throwing your money at everything

THIS!

[jdcarpe]

Hyperfuse is probably my last GB until the dollar stabilized. So sad! I'll spend more time in offtopic now.

Yeah I'll be the same, still trying to figure out my money for the month but I'm definitely buying that set.

Don't forget about Hack'd By Geeks.

You guys, with your hopes that our currency weakens. Bad Aussie, bad!

[bueller]

Hyperfuse is probably my last GB until the dollar stabilized. So sad! I'll spend more time in offtopic now.

Yeah I'll be the same, still trying to figure out my money for the month but I'm definitely buying that set.

Don't forget about Hack'd By Geeks.

You guys, with your hopes that our currency weakens. Bad Aussies, bad!

if (keyset = GMK) {
buyKeyset(money);
}

[noisyturtle]

See that's the thing about groupbuys, you have to wait for them. **** that. Sets will be in the classifieds eventually.

Then again if everybody thought like me there would be no groupbuys.

Hyperfuse is probably my last GB until the dollar stabilized. So sad! I'll spend more time in offtopic now.

Yeah I'll be the same, still trying to figure out my money for the month but I'm definitely buying that set.

Don't forget about Hack'd By Geeks.

You guys, with your hopes that our currency weakens. Bad Aussies, bad!

if (keyset = GMK) {
buyKeyset(money);
}

Oh sure, GMK groupbuys always go so well and are never abandoned almost immediately for cheaper more convenient manufacturers.

[rowdy]

Hyperfuse is probably my last GB until the dollar stabilized. So sad! I'll spend more time in offtopic now.

Yeah I'll be the same, still trying to figure out my money for the month but I'm definitely buying that set.

Don't forget about Hack'd By Geeks.

You guys, with your hopes that our currency weakens. Bad Aussie, bad!

Exactly.  Hack'd By Geeks might be "only" $120, but that translates to about AUD$155, add US$15 shipping or so and the total comes to nearly AUD$175.

Actually I think it was closer to AUD$185 a few days ago, perhaps the currency conversion rate has changed.

Unfortunately this pushes it into "too expensive" for me

[bueller]

See that's the thing about groupbuys, you have to wait for them. **** that. Sets will be in the classifieds eventually.

Then again if everybody thought like me there would be no groupbuys.

Hyperfuse is probably my last GB until the dollar stabilized. So sad! I'll spend more time in offtopic now.

Yeah I'll be the same, still trying to figure out my money for the month but I'm definitely buying that set.

Don't forget about Hack'd By Geeks.

You guys, with your hopes that our currency weakens. Bad Aussies, bad!

if (keyset = GMK) {
buyKeyset(money);
}

Oh sure, GMK groupbuys always go so well and are never abandoned almost immediately for cheaper more convenient manufacturers.

GMK group buys could be so easy if organisers and buyers weren't intent on adding a million keys to the sets putting them out of price range for most people. Sick of people around here expecting everyone else to foot the bill for their ****ty choice in keyboards.

[noisyturtle]

See that's the thing about groupbuys, you have to wait for them. **** that. Sets will be in the classifieds eventually.

Then again if everybody thought like me there would be no groupbuys.

Hyperfuse is probably my last GB until the dollar stabilized. So sad! I'll spend more time in offtopic now.

Yeah I'll be the same, still trying to figure out my money for the month but I'm definitely buying that set.

Don't forget about Hack'd By Geeks.

You guys, with your hopes that our currency weakens. Bad Aussies, bad!

if (keyset = GMK) {
buyKeyset(money);
}

Oh sure, GMK groupbuys always go so well and are never abandoned almost immediately for cheaper more convenient manufacturers.

GMK group buys could be so easy if organisers and buyers weren't intent on adding a million keys to the sets putting them out of price range for most people. Sick of people around here expecting everyone else to foot the bill for their ****ty choice in keyboards.

I could not agree more with this statement, and yes it's annoying bull****. You do a TKL set, a mod set, and a num pad set. If you don't like it you can eat a ****. That's the way it used to be and by gum we got **** done!

[bueller]

See that's the thing about groupbuys, you have to wait for them. **** that. Sets will be in the classifieds eventually.

Then again if everybody thought like me there would be no groupbuys.

Hyperfuse is probably my last GB until the dollar stabilized. So sad! I'll spend more time in offtopic now.

Yeah I'll be the same, still trying to figure out my money for the month but I'm definitely buying that set.

Don't forget about Hack'd By Geeks.

You guys, with your hopes that our currency weakens. Bad Aussies, bad!

if (keyset = GMK) {
buyKeyset(money);
}

Oh sure, GMK groupbuys always go so well and are never abandoned almost immediately for cheaper more convenient manufacturers.

GMK group buys could be so easy if organisers and buyers weren't intent on adding a million keys to the sets putting them out of price range for most people. Sick of people around here expecting everyone else to foot the bill for their ****ty choice in keyboards.

I could not agree more with this statement, and yes it's annoying bull****. You do a TKL set, a mod set, and a num pad set. If you don't like it you can eat a ****. That's the way it used to be and by gum we got **** done!

The one that really makes me shake my head is people insisting on 1800 additions. THEY ALREADY HAVE CHERRY CAPS YOU NOOB!

[eyesmiles]

The one that really makes me shake my head is people insisting on 1800 additions. THEY ALREADY HAVE CHERRY CAPS YOU NOOB!

But dem different colorways tho.



Anyways, I'm guessing Sprit will never show up for his GB. That's what I get for getting tempted by anything Korean custom related ... Should've listened to demik. Could've added to my HHKB fund with the money lost

[bueller]

The one that really makes me shake my head is people insisting on 1800 additions. THEY ALREADY HAVE CHERRY CAPS YOU NOOB!

But dem different colorways tho.

Oh yeah I was talking about the recent Beige IC's - would make wayyy more sense if we were talking about Hyperfuse or something.

[rowdy]

See that's the thing about groupbuys, you have to wait for them. **** that. Sets will be in the classifieds eventually.

Then again if everybody thought like me there would be no groupbuys.

Hyperfuse is probably my last GB until the dollar stabilized. So sad! I'll spend more time in offtopic now.

Yeah I'll be the same, still trying to figure out my money for the month but I'm definitely buying that set.

Don't forget about Hack'd By Geeks.

You guys, with your hopes that our currency weakens. Bad Aussies, bad!

if (keyset = GMK) {
buyKeyset(money);
}

Oh sure, GMK groupbuys always go so well and are never abandoned almost immediately for cheaper more convenient manufacturers.

GMK group buys could be so easy if organisers and buyers weren't intent on adding a million keys to the sets putting them out of price range for most people. Sick of people around here expecting everyone else to foot the bill for their ****ty choice in keyboards.

I can think of one or two such GBs that went this way.

One set of just modifiers was going to cost upwards of $80.  Just for modifiers

[tbc]

so....can we cry about paying money for gbs and being the (only) person not to get the item in the end?

[bueller]

so....can we cry about paying money for gbs and being the (only) person not to get the item in the end?

Go for it, I already have! My case actually got shipped to me in the end (botay46 picked up the slack and shipped all orders after alixinhzai went AWOL) but unfortunately they couldn't deliver it (@#%$% knows why) and it got returned to sender. By the time I figured that out botay had lost the shipping slip for it and they wouldn't let him pick it up. Still pissed about that GB.

[Belfong]

You know what was my first keyboard GB ever?
7bit's Round 5!

And I have not even hear a thing since, what, 2 years ago?

My gosh! And yet people keep on saying he delivers. I don't know..

[bueller]

You know what was my first keyboard GB ever?
7bit's Round 5!

And I have not even hear a thing since, what, 2 years ago?

My gosh! And yet people keep on saying he delivers. I don't know..

I'm glad I stayed out of that one, I was worried it was going to take forever due to the size of the GB.

[Fire Brand]

Can not afford to buy the GMK hyperfuse just going to have to stick with the original hyperfuse which was my first group buy keyset <3

[bueller]

Can not afford to buy the GMK hyperfuse just going to have to stick with the original hyperfuse which was my first group buy keyset <3

Don't feel too bad mate, there's always the classifieds! I was super disappointed when I first joined because I'd missed out on signup for the GMK Purple buy, only took me a few months before I found a set!

[billnye]

How about a therapy thread for group buy leaders?

tfw GMK charges me $200 for shipping and then ships all the CMYW caps as a standard packet (similar to first class international)

[FreeCopy]

My first group buy and the set never made it. After a reasonable time to suspect it lost in transit a replacement was sent out. All shipping info double verified and was correct both times. About 9-10 months after that was sent out I ended up moving and never got to see anything from that buy. Somewhere in the world I have two keysets, lol.

[bueller]

My first group buy and the set never made it. After a reasonable time to suspect it lost in transit a replacement was sent out. All shipping info double verified and was correct both times. About 9-10 months after that was sent out I ended up moving and never got to see anything from that buy. Somewhere in the world I have two keysets, lol.

It's the worst feeling. I saw photos of my case and everything, so painful knowing that it's probably just been sitting in a post office or thrown out.

[Fire Brand]

Can not afford to buy the GMK hyperfuse just going to have to stick with the original hyperfuse which was my first group buy keyset <3

Don't feel too bad mate, there's always the classifieds! I was super disappointed when I first joined because I'd missed out on signup for the GMK Purple buy, only took me a few months before I found a set!

I know hopefully if I sell some thing this week I may be able to get it maybe :x Hopefully there is a set or two around after the group buy as with most others :x

[Lastpilot]

The struggle is real.

[billnye]

The struggle is real.

retweet bruh

[Lastpilot]

The struggle is real.

retweet bruh

#2015RIP

[billnye]

The struggle is real.

retweet bruh

#2015RIP

#cmykrip

[whizzard]

After reading this thread.. I realized how lucky I got because my first GB went so smoothly.  Waiting 2 to 4 months to get what you paid for can be a little antsy especially for impulse buyers like myself, but when it finally came it was worth the wait.  I am usually the type that will pay an extra 10 dollars in shipping to get stuff a few days early if I really want something.  The group buy process has helped me develop patience!