I wonder who will be doing the assembly service?? Hopefully someone reliable. 
Little known fact ... rumor ... inaccuracy: all ErgoDox keyboards start out fully assembled, but Massdrop wants to keep up their reputation of a part of the hacker/maker community, so desolders everything and sells them as kits. The premium "assembly service" is them charging for simply not taking apart what is shipped to them.
There's so much wrong with this I don't know where to begin. I'll just go with the PCBs.
After closely examining two separate sets of PCBs from MassDrop, I can say with confidence that this is totally untrue. I don't care how good you are, desoldering a whole board would leave marks, and the PCBs I received have been utterly pristine.
this is correct, the ergodox i haven't built (#3) is a pristine PCB, likely from PCBwing
MassDrop sources their parts from all over the place before packing up the kit. There no manufacturer of the ErgoDox, which is open source.
Agreed, nightsnack, so much whoosh.
To be clear, the reason "fact" and "rumor" were struck out, leaving only "inaccuracy" was to indicate that this absurdism was not in fact true. Since more than one person seems to have missed this, I figured I'd state it clearly here. What I had said was simply an absurdism (on the face of it, it makes no sense), so no one needs to worry, no desoldering or anything else has been done to these parts before they arrive at your doorstep.
Yikes.
