GMK white/dark grey US/GB full set + 'Gamer' add-on {Closed}

[Candyflip]

I honestly don't understand why people will pay $105 plus shipping for a dolch base set to a vendor who is absent, uncommunicative and has many outstanding unfulfilled orders but they won't support a community effort.

Why not buy the set Ivan is offering here?

He has great communication, flawless shipping and the price is right for a much larger variety of keys.

We can always do alpha group buys later to make this set Dolch or any other crazy combination people want.

I think I know why. People like dual color sets and known from many previous group buys that works for them, on the side Dolch is the most popular hence why so many chose that over this. Honestly I think Dolch is boring and this set is a great start for mix and match in future but many people don't like to wait for that and will rather stick to the already popular set which you can't buy anywhere at the moment. Heck I think even if GMK classic beige can get to MOQ quite easy these days. There is the argument that for lets say someone who use 60% or TKL keyboards he won't like to go for a $120 set which includes so much unnecessary keys for their board. Yes I know you might want to switch to tsangan in the future and whatnot but I doubt many people will use the 1u backspace, the shortened caps etc. I think easier to reach MOQ are those kind of GB which include adapter pack f.e ISO kit, tsangan etc. it might not be in favor of everyone but at least reaches MOQ quicker. Don't get me wrong I like this set and if I could afford it at the moment I would sign up without a doubt.

[Halvar]

(deleted, I think I misunderstood candyflip.)

[redeye]

Sorry i may have ordered twice. I just want the one set.

[avtar]

Ivan, has the order count increased at all since the Mar 23 total or dipped down again?

[lightsout714]

I'm curious on order count too. This only ends on the 1st if it hits MOQ right? I'd like to get in but need to scrape the funds together first.

[avtar]

I'm curious on order count too. This only ends on the 1st if it hits MOQ right? I'd like to get in but need to scrape the funds together first.

My impression is that it ends on the 1st one way or the other

[lightsout714]

I'm curious on order count too. This only ends on the 1st if it hits MOQ right? I'd like to get in but need to scrape the funds together first.

My impression is that it ends on the 1st one way or the other

Oh well that sucks. Bring on classic beige!!!

[mousesony]

Bring on classic beige!!!

This please.

[ebacho]

I'm curious on order count too. This only ends on the 1st if it hits MOQ right? I'd like to get in but need to scrape the funds together first.

My impression is that it ends on the 1st one way or the other

Oh well that sucks. Bring on classic beige!!!

The thing is, you can get 90% of the way there by buying a normal Cherry DS board.  The only reason to get a GMK made set is to get the 1.25x mods and maybe a 2.75x shift if you got your caps from a 1800 variant.  I don't see the appeal of getting a group buy together for something that's not extraordinarily hard to source, at least any more so than other vintage stuff.

[lightsout714]

I'm curious on order count too. This only ends on the 1st if it hits MOQ right? I'd like to get in but need to scrape the funds together first.

My impression is that it ends on the 1st one way or the other

Oh well that sucks. Bring on classic beige!!!

The thing is, you can get 90% of the way there by buying a normal Cherry DS board.  The only reason to get a GMK made set is to get the 1.25x mods and maybe a 2.75x shift if you got your caps from a 1800 variant.  I don't see the appeal of getting a group buy together for something that's not extraordinarily hard to source, at least any more so than other vintage stuff.

I disagree, its not as easy as it used to be. Especially to find new/like new sets. THose boards get pretty expensive. A complete set, brand new, no wonky keys or sourcing a moogle, for about $100. Sounds much better to me.

[goonx]

I honestly don't understand why people will pay $105 plus shipping for a dolch base set to a vendor who is absent, uncommunicative and has many outstanding unfulfilled orders but they won't support a community effort.

Why not buy the set Ivan is offering here?

He has great communication, flawless shipping and the price is right for a much larger variety of keys.

We can always do alpha group buys later to make this set Dolch or any other crazy combination people want.

I really want to support this GB but it's already quite expensive as it is... Not sure I would be willing to pay again for a set of alphas that may or may not come around the next round. If this had the alphas in grey, i would jump in with both feet.
It's unfortunate about Orginative and you're right about his absence. But if the dolch is in stock, that is exactly the product I want.

[yicaoyimu]

I honestly don't understand why people will pay $105 plus shipping for a dolch base set to a vendor who is absent, uncommunicative and has many outstanding unfulfilled orders but they won't support a community effort.

Why not buy the set Ivan is offering here?

He has great communication, flawless shipping and the price is right for a much larger variety of keys.

We can always do alpha group buys later to make this set Dolch or any other crazy combination people want.

I really want to support this GB but it's already quite expensive as it is... Not sure I would be willing to pay again for a set of alphas that may or may not come around the next round. If this had the alphas in grey, i would jump in with both feet.
It's unfortunate about Orginative and you're right about his absence. But if the dolch is in stock, that is exactly the product I want.

Quite expensive in what sense? A $120 full set caps more expensive than $105 Originative TKL Dolch set? Plus you never know whether you will get those keys from Sherry. Plus you never know whether any key will be missing. Ok I'd better stop.

Someone please tell me what is this Dolch obsession...

[Pacifist]

Dolch is sexy. but there are so many more other sets that also look sexy.

[goonx]

I honestly don't understand why people will pay $105 plus shipping for a dolch base set to a vendor who is absent, uncommunicative and has many outstanding unfulfilled orders but they won't support a community effort.

Why not buy the set Ivan is offering here?

He has great communication, flawless shipping and the price is right for a much larger variety of keys.

We can always do alpha group buys later to make this set Dolch or any other crazy combination people want.

I really want to support this GB but it's already quite expensive as it is... Not sure I would be willing to pay again for a set of alphas that may or may not come around the next round. If this had the alphas in grey, i would jump in with both feet.
It's unfortunate about Orginative and you're right about his absence. But if the dolch is in stock, that is exactly the product I want.

Quite expensive in what sense? A $120 full set caps more expensive than $105 Originative TKL Dolch set?

Someone tell me what is this Dolch obsession...

Well now you're just putting my words out of context. As someone pointed out earlier, I still need to buy grey alphas in the "future" to make this a two-tone set and that would add to the cost if I wanted the dolch colour tones. I don't see myself buying multiple sets of GMK keycaps.

Two-tone colour scheme looks sharper and attractive. It goes with my walnut/ash wood case that I planning on prototyping. It is personal preference really. Some people like legends and some don't. You like blue and I like red. I don't see why the two opinions can't exist together.

Nothing wrong with this set. In fact, Ivan is running it so it's a huge bonus.

Are you talking about vendors or are you talking about colour tones? those are separate things.

[yicaoyimu]

I honestly don't understand why people will pay $105 plus shipping for a dolch base set to a vendor who is absent, uncommunicative and has many outstanding unfulfilled orders but they won't support a community effort.

Why not buy the set Ivan is offering here?

He has great communication, flawless shipping and the price is right for a much larger variety of keys.

We can always do alpha group buys later to make this set Dolch or any other crazy combination people want.

I really want to support this GB but it's already quite expensive as it is... Not sure I would be willing to pay again for a set of alphas that may or may not come around the next round. If this had the alphas in grey, i would jump in with both feet.
It's unfortunate about Orginative and you're right about his absence. But if the dolch is in stock, that is exactly the product I want.

Quite expensive in what sense? A $120 full set caps more expensive than $105 Originative TKL Dolch set?

Someone tell me what is this Dolch obsession...

Well now you're just putting my words out of context. As someone pointed out earlier, I still need to buy grey alphas in the "future" to make this a two-tone set and that would add to the cost if I wanted the dolch colour tones. I don't see myself buying multiple sets of GMK keycaps.

Two-tone colour scheme looks sharper. It is personal preference really. Some people like legends and some don't. You like blue and I like red. I don't see why the two opinions can't exist together.

Nothing wrong with this set. In fact, Ivan is running it so it's a huge bonus.

Are you talking about vendors or are you talking about colour tones? those are separate things.

Ah I see what you mean. If all you really care about is Dolch, then it is too costly to first get Ivan's set and then get grey alphas. I agree.

[GeorgeK]

Hmmm - I might have to pull out of this as my car's in the garage and they don't know what's wrong with it.  From experience that usually only means one thing - a large bill...  I'll wait to hear from them before I decide but I hope this makes it either way...

[MOZ]

Yeah,  depending on when we get involved for this I too might have to pull out,  the GB has run so long,  and financial situation changes over this time.

[GeorgeK]

Had the phone call today - work will come to over £1300 ($2000)

Will definitely have to pull out of this - how would I go about that?  Resubmit a blank order?

[IvanIvanovich]

There have only been a few additional orders. At this time unless either 50ish orders come in the next couple days, or a large order from reseller appears I think will have to admit defeat here.
Assuming that happens I will get an IC going to discuss colorways. I think the key selection should stick as we went through so much work on getting that settled over this time.

[avtar]

That really sucks

[SpAmRaY]

[BunnyLake]

lets not let this be the gmk set that got away, itll work with most anything else we do with gmk in the future

ill add an extra set to my order

you can never have enough gmk

if as many people as possible can add a spare set, we can get this done

worst case scenario, if you dont want a spare, as soon as these drop, there will be insane demand, its not like itll be hard to shift

id rather pay 240 for 2 sets than totally lose out trying to spend 120

[avtar]

I only need one set but I'll pick up a second if it makes a difference. The only thing is that I always take a hit getting anything shipped to Canada and then more often than not it's someone in the U.S. that buys from me; I then end up having to cover part of the extra shipping costs again. Would someone in the U.S. be willing to receive the second set on my behalf and ship it for me when I find someone who wants to buy it later? You could increase your order by one and I'll send you a Paypal transfer for the second set when or if invoicing happens.

[BunnyLake]

I only need one set but I'll pick up a second if it makes a difference. The only thing is that I always take a hit getting anything shipped to Canada and then more often than not it's someone in the U.S. that buys from me; I then end up having to cover part of the extra shipping costs again. Would someone in the U.S. be willing to receive the second set on my behalf and ship it for me when I find someone who wants to buy it later? You could increase your order by one and I'll send you a Paypal transfer for the second set when or if invoicing happens.

my man

this is the attitude we need to make this happen

[yicaoyimu]

There have only been a few additional orders. At this time unless either 50ish orders come in the next couple days, or a large order from reseller appears I think will have to admit defeat here.
Assuming that happens I will get an IC going to discuss colorways. I think the key selection should stick as we went through so much work on getting that settled over this time.

There is another thread gathering orders on EnjoyClick, a Chinese forumn. I'm not sure whether those orders are already submitted on GH, but I will contact the author of that thread and see.

[kekstee]

Oh god, not another IC. Look I can see the future: "These Gulf Oil colours would look amazing in my use case and go with absoultely nothing else! Let's make those!!! ANSI base set please!"

If that's enough horror for you, +1 your order now

[nuclearsandwich]

I only need one set but I'll pick up a second if it makes a difference. The only thing is that I always take a hit getting anything shipped to Canada and then more often than not it's someone in the U.S. that buys from me; I then end up having to cover part of the extra shipping costs again. Would someone in the U.S. be willing to receive the second set on my behalf and ship it for me when I find someone who wants to buy it later? You could increase your order by one and I'll send you a Paypal transfer for the second set when or if invoicing happens.

Avtar, I'll volunteer to shepherd your additional set. I've already doubled down myself so I'll up my order to three.

[gojira54]

Two is as many as I can stretch to...
What bunny said is the truth - order as much as you can afford now or regret it when it doesn't happen.
I'm in no doubt that it will be easy to sell extras and recoup the $$$ once they are produced

[IvanIvanovich]

For those that may consider buying extra sets... if you wish, I could hold them in a resell pool to avoid multiple trans global shipping, and simply refund you the original price when they are resold?
Also, for those that can't afford to doubledown... perhaps you could 'donate' a few extra $$$ to pool buying additional sets? When those are resold the proceeds could go to GH/DT or whatever.

[BunnyLake]

For those that may consider buying extra sets... if you wish, I could hold them in a resell pool to avoid multiple trans global shipping, and simply refund you the original price when they are resold?

good man

lets get this thing done

[jdcarpe]

I can't remember if I ordered this or not...

[HoffmanMyster]

I can't remember if I ordered this or not...

Story of my life...


Ivan, do you think you could put me down for 1 order in this "pool" that you mention?  If I remember correctly, I have not placed an order yet, so it's slightly different from the scenario you described, but I'm very much on the fence about the money for this one, so this would be the ideal situation for me.

[IvanIvanovich]

I will get a form up or something shortly for pool set buy ins. This won't entitle anyone to anything other than a donation to forum on your behalf at a later time after those pool sets are sold.

jdcarpe, I don't see anything for you on my sheet currently.

[lightsout714]

I will get a form up or something shortly for pool set buy ins. This won't entitle anyone to anything other than a donation to forum on your behalf at a later time after those pool sets are sold.

Or you could sell their set and refund them. Like you said for people buying two. This will help with MOQ right?

When will payment be needed for this if it goes through? I am interested but don't have the funds right now.

[IvanIvanovich]

If it proceeds, will probably make payment due something like 15 April.

Sure it would be nice if people could double up and I can resell those sets on their behalf no problem. I am not sure if people are following what I mean by buying pool for additional sets so I will elaborate. So since not everyone can afford multiple sets, but they do want to ensure that this goes forward... someone could chip in an extra $2, $5, etc then when enough people have done that it would go to purchasing additional set. As such it could either be micro loans for the groupbuy, or I could donate the proceeds to the forum or whatever.

[jdcarpe]

I will get a form up or something shortly for pool set buy ins. This won't entitle anyone to anything other than a donation to forum on your behalf at a later time after those pool sets are sold.

jdcarpe, I don't see anything for you on my sheet currently.

You're one closer to MOQ now.

[avtar]

Avtar, I'll volunteer to shepherd your additional set. I've already doubled down myself so I'll up my order to three.

You are a gentleman and a scholar Just confirming that I'm taking up Ivan on his offer to resell them directly and save on the extra fees.

[avtar]

Sure it would be nice if people could double up and I can resell those sets on their behalf no problem.

I've doubled up. I wasn't sure how I should specify that the second set shouldn't get shipped to me or if the order form was even the right place to document that.

The buying pool is a great idea btw.

[GeorgeK]

Is the set count still sub-200?

[ninjadoc]

Ordered three of each but I don't think this is happening.

[avtar]

I think you're right :/ I'm preparing myself to work through the stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, and just move on. Unless someone orders 50 by Monday night...

[Motan22]

If only GMK had lowered their standard MOQ to 200, we would be there or there abouts. It was a heroic feat that Ivan managed to pull them down from 400 to 250. At 400 we would have stood absolutely no chance!

[IvanIvanovich]

Close... yet still far.

[CK Briefs]

Close... yet still far.

Bye bye gmk grey

[quochung1989]

Oops 

[Dreamre]

Close... yet still far.

Ivan needs a Dolch GB :3...

[bazh]

+1 Dolch GB :v

[quochung1989]

Dolch is very popular. I think we should go to others )

[SpAmRaY]

red alert?

[mousesony]

An inverted classic white/beige is one of those exceptions... Like the Commodore style. I would like to do a modern repro of that.

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This looks pretty good.