Apologies for resurrecting an ancient thread.
Just thought I'd chime in with my experience in case anyone still cared.
I joined the R96 GB and was so excited. I have an email correspondence with Maylily probably 30 emails long by the end of it.
Long story short: after insane waiting I received a keyboard in February 2018 - but instead of a brushed aluminium finish it's.. anodized brown.
And includes a full set of cherry mx brown switches that I never asked for, so I got someone elses order.
I asked if I could send it back and get my own order - or if they could even locate where MY order went.
After a lot of back and forth and blaming the shipping company she finally stopped replying in April and I gave up any hope of ever getting a keyboard that I'd want to actually build.
So now it sits in a drawer.
So if the person that was waiting for order number 1777 is out there somewhere patiently still waiting for his/her order:
I have it! You wouldn't happen to have my order number 1986 by chance?