Pretty sure your math is wrong.
$30 for 14 caps is giving him roughly $2.10 for each cap. If he gets up to 100 caps for each (which may not happen), then his cost is $1.44. So that gives him a profit of $.65, not $1.50... Yes I am rounding a couple numbers here for simplicity sake...
He has already mention that if he gets to 100 of each cap he will be adding caps from his own money. So the profit of 100 x .65 x 14 gives him about $910 profit, of which some will go towards producing more caps for the people who have donated lots.
He is taking a risk at this pricing already because he has to get to 75 caps of each just to get into the black.
One of the things that I really appreciate about Bunny's buys is that he puts concrete pricing in front of you that is reasonable. If he ends up getting a lot of traction he usually puts some of his profits towards adding keycaps for free or something like that.
It is not a trivial amount of work to organize this type of thing, and have a nice website, and everything else that goes with this. I think he is doing a pretty good job and his doing this on behalf of the community...
That's the math I used at first swill, but after talking with some people, SP stacks them, so if he gets 100 caps of each, it's 1400 cap pricing (assuming all 100 orders are the $30 set)
Putting it at $2.14 he's charging for caps, and $.41 he's (roughly) getting charged by SP = $1.73 profit
It of course is not trivial, but is it worth 500% markup? I seriously don't think so.
And the fact that he is charging a $2 forced donation on each order and calling it a "donation-drive" would be equivalent to me walking up to 100 people and asking for a $1 to donate, then donating $100 myself.
One of the things I despise about these ctrlaltgroubuy's is that there is static pricing, to me this defeats the whole purpose of a group buy, this is more of just a pre-sale.
i stated it above but just to completely clear something up
we are not at the 1400 price point if we sell 100 of 14 different keys
we are at the 100 price point, the reason stacking works is based on the plastic, if i was gonna 10 keys, in black and orange, saying 1-10 on them, it would be cheaper to order as a pack rather individually, as in ordering 100 of each number, rather i would order 100 sets of all the numbers
however, the keys in this buy use different colours, so each key is priced individually not as a pack, if i were buying them as a pack, i wouldnt split the buy up into groups of keys, and offer some keys just in one pack, the pricing kmiller showed was pretty accurate, a few cents different here and there on the tiers
if we only sell 50 of every key, after all the shipping to proxies etc, the gb will be in the red, if we hit the 75 price point, there will be money left over, if people read back in the thread, extra keys have already been added and i have stated if we hit these higher tiers more will to, and anything left over after that will go to gh
at no point have i called this a donation drive as is quoted above, but the mandatory donation has been added, in case this gb doesnt make it into the black, and i didnt want gh to end up with nothing from this
im sorry this thread is being slightly derailed, if anyone would like to speak to me further about any of this, please pm me
