Alright, so here's the pricing:
EU - Mykeyboard.eu - 119 Euro
US - Kono.store - 129 USD
Asia + Int. - KBDFans - 129 USD
RAMA cap pricing still being worked on, will update asap!
Hope to see you all the 2nd of April! <3
Not sure why some are saying the price is high? $130 for US/Asia/Intl, 120 Euro for EU is right in line for what I was expecting for an all in one lower MOQ GB like this. I think some may see the smaller number for EU customers & not realize with exchange rate the set cost the same for everybody give or take a couple cents. For me at $130, plus probably another $10 for shipping, I'm definitely still in for this set & pretty happy with the price TBH. Think about it even with the buying power of of MD the now continuously stocked GMK WoB is going for $100, so I'd imagine MD is paying $70 to $80 per set themselves. $130 for a decently comprehensive set that only needs 150 orders to run seems fair enough to me.
The only thing I take a little issue with is that GMK is not offering any price breaks at all for this GB. I can understand not doing a price break structure like in a Zambumon or Mito GB, but damn give us a price break at 300 if it doubles MOQ & maybe another at 500 if it does real well. I could be wrong, but using standard GMK colors/fonts & having just a single all one set should make the manufacturing cost at least a little cheaper for GMK vs sets with custom matched colors, multiple kits, dual legends on the alphas, etc. Admittedly, I'm not sure how much of the costs for stuff like that get put on the designer/GB runner & how much of it GMK absorbs.
Anyways getting excited for this set now that is for sure going live. Great work on this set Emir & I look forward to getting one of these bad boys in my collection (hopefully one of those Rama caps too! )! So much better than WoB in my IMO!
Thank you so much for the kind words! <3
Regarding price breaks, GMK offers quotes at 150, 250 and 500 MOQ for every set using stock colors (to my knowledge). As far as I know, custom colors don't cost more than stock colors - they just raise MOQ. However, adding colors increases the cost - so a 3 color set will cost more than a 2 colored set (to my understanding). Regarding sublegends etc, I am not sure about that as my set doesn't offer any, but if GMK got molds for it, I don't think it increases cost significantly.
The reason many sets don't offer price breaks is because vendors, aside from Massdrop, don't have an automated way to refund each price break. This means there's logistical cost for vendors to refund orders, and if it's over 500 then that takes quite some times to manually refund each order, which means labour cost. For a set with very low margins, introducing price breaks might actually make the GB lose money when adding all the logistical cost of manually refunding. I hope that clears things up a bit!
For Nines it was a concious decision not to introduce price breaks, I hope you understand.
Any missing pieces for KBD67? ANSI 65% layout?
You got full support for kbd67, 1.75u shift is in the kit and the extra profiled keys on the side.