Call me old fashioned but if you start talking business with a company and due to the size of the order/whatever if another option opens up you should stick with the company that you originally started conducting the business with. Plus if SP has already developed the custom color that we are using for this then they have already put money on the line. And don't give me the "they are a large enough company to soak the cost of that color". Granted they may be but that isn't the point. It would be very bad business to suddenly change vendors after SP has already forked out the money for the new color. Therefore, my vote is to keep this GB with SP. If massdrop wants to do their own groupbuy with GMK we can't say anything to stop them.
So far all that has happened is I've given SP $90 out of my pocket for two new caps, and I asked for some preliminary pricing that is no longer valid.
There is no money for a new color. They got a small bit of sample color and they will only get a new color if the order is large enough to consume it all.
For example if I was going to get some black caps made SP would have to buy the material to make my caps. If the order was large enough it makes no difference if they are buying black or a new color because the materials cost the same no matter what. At least that is my understanding from conversations with Melissa at SP.
At the moment SP has groupbuy after groupbuy pouring in but most of them are only in quantities of 75-200. Since we reached such a high number of "orders" or interest in this groupbuy we should seize the opportunity to hit the MOQ at GMK IF they can get our custom color which would match SPs because I gave them a Pantone number, and we'll still get a ton of extras from Signature plastics as well (vendor set, center-stemmed stepped caps lock, 8x and 10x spacebars in both colors, toxic bubbles and beaker mod keys, and blanks in both colors in case someone wants to make their own otaku set.
