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Great, thanks for the direct explanation. I will be camping. :-)
Just wanted to add something here, not just for you but also for other people.
Most GroupBuys for custom boards on this forum are quite low volume. It hasn't been until the recent rise of Mechanical Keyboards and the influx of members to the community that we were able to even gather enough people to make projects like this affordable.
For example:
Go ahead and take a look at the GB section from 2012. What you will find is the rise of Signature Plastics thin ABS novelty keys and the very first aluminum Poker cases.
Everything else was either buying hard to find keyboards like the Poker [
Sic] or SP keysets in the classic colors.
Oh, and awesome
Titanium spacebars. *WANT*
Before... let's say this year, it was next to impossible to buy any Korean Custom Keyboards unless you had the right connections. With the recent influx of Korean members heading over our way this has changed quite a bit.
This last 6 months alone we had almost 4 real Korean GBs and at least that many Western ones.
As for the list above; notice the dramatic decrease in buyers as the price rises above the $350 point?
There is a limit to how much people are willing to pay for a board.
The Hubble looks like a $400-500 board (or much more) with all the options for customization.
100 interested people might only translate to 20 actual buyers depending on other factors. When it goes on sale, competing GBs, Tax refunds, Vacation bonuses or how fresh/new a certain layout is all factor in to lead to the success of a GB.
It is awesome to see cool pics like
Kin25's.
But the reality is that not a single one of the above mentioned GBs even hit 100 buyers and a board that might be as expensive as the priciest one, or even more, is certainly not going to hit that. No matter how cool it might be.