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Title: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | CANCELLED
Post by: Mangas on Thu, 01 September 2022, 19:40:23: CANCELLED / FAILED TO MEET MOQ

KEYKOBO BEIGE & DOLCH

Hello everyone!
I'm very happy to present to you something that I have been working on for a little while . I recently found out about a new keycap manufacturer called Keykobo and I became really interested in running some classic colorways with them following their WoB and BoW releases .

Group Buy Dates:
September 2nd 2022 to October 3rd 2022
Estimated lead time ~3 Months after Group Buy end from Keykobo to Vendors

Vendors: (Links will be added as each of the vendors group buys go live)
USA: Mechs & Co (https://mechsandco.com/collections/current-group-buys/products/beige-dolch-keycaps)
Canada : Ashkeebs (https://www.ashkeebs.com/product/keykobo-beige-dolch-keycaps/)
EU: Keygem (https://keygem.store/products/group-buy-keykobo-beige-dolch-keycaps)
Oceania: DailyClack (https://dailyclack.com/products/keykobo-beige-dolch)
SEA: ZionStudios (https://zionstudios.ph/product/groupbuy-kk-dolchbeige/)
UK : Prototypist (https://prototypist.net/products/group-buy-keykobo-beige-dolch)
China / International : zFrontier (https://www.zfrontier.com/app/mch/lDDeLPRXOArl)
KR : Geon.works (https://geon.works/products/gb-keykobo-beige-dolch) (Naver and Global Store links are below)
Naver store base kits (https://smartstore.naver.com/geonlab/products/7123859653)
Naver store add-on kits (https://smartstore.naver.com/geonlab/products/7123853176)
Geonworks Global Store (https://geon.works/products/gb-keykobo-beige-dolch)
Pricing: (Pricing will be updated as each of the vendors group buys go live)
(https://i.imgur.com/Q5GXTsn.png)

Information
Lead Time : ~3 Months after Group Buy end from Keykobo to Vendors .
Profile: Cherry
Material: ABS Doubleshot (Only exception are pad printed windowed keys in the extension kit)
Colors: Beige (U9 / L9 / CR) , Dolch (N9 / CC / CP) , CMYK (MG1 / TU2 / CV / DY / V2 / CR) , CMYW (MG1 / TU2 / CV / DY / V2 / CP)
Manufacturer: Keykobo

Kitting:

Beige & Dolch Base Kits

(https://i.imgur.com/KJVpCPa.png) (https://i.imgur.com/3c0HCsH.png)

Beige & Dolch Extension Kits

(https://i.imgur.com/PuH4g6X.png) (https://i.imgur.com/NEq0bcj.png)

CMYK & CMYW Add-on Kits

(https://i.imgur.com/LIPK2DQ.png) (https://i.imgur.com/pHmhbNk.png)

Renders:

Phoenix by Cable Car Designs

(https://i.imgur.com/fWMyZNH.png) (https://i.imgur.com/XlQJl3J.png)

Frog by Geonworks

(https://i.imgur.com/gZmDf6W.png) (https://i.imgur.com/0dBS9bW.png)

TGR 910 by Yuktsi

(https://i.imgur.com/6lQQRzp.png) (https://i.imgur.com/JvtTzkm.png)

Dalco 959 Mini by Hand Engineering (https://discord.gg/xVxcVG4hGb)

(https://i.imgur.com/U4zAdxq.png) (https://i.imgur.com/F3H3vEZ.png)

Update Log :

2/9/2022 v1.0 : GB Thread Posted , waiting for vendors to go live

Discord : Mangas#4103
Special thanks to:
Keykobo for being patient with me
Ankit for being awesome and allowing me to run the CMYW kit (Please check out GMK WoB Essentials)
mcmcmc for being awesome and allowing me to run the CMYK kit (Please check out GMK Beige Addon & Extension)
All the vendors for picking up this project and to all the people who helped me with the kitting and last but not least to all the people who support this project .
Title: Re: [GB]Keykobo Beige & Dolch | GB 2/9 CMYK & CMYW & Extension added |Doubleshot ABS
Post by: Mangas on Thu, 01 September 2022, 19:41:02: Reserved , currently waiting for vendor's GB pages to go live and will update the thread accordingly
Title: Re: [GB]Keykobo Beige & Dolch | GB 2/9 CMYK & CMYW & Extension added |Doubleshot ABS
Post by: Mangas on Fri, 02 September 2022, 16:31:46: GB is live for :

Canada : Ashkeebs (https://www.ashkeebs.com/product/keykobo-beige-dolch-keycaps/)
EU: Keygem (https://keygem.store/products/group-buy-keykobo-beige-dolch-keycaps)
UK : Prototypist (https://prototypist.net/products/group-buy-keykobo-beige-dolch)
KR : Geon.works
Naver store base kits (https://smartstore.naver.com/geonlab/products/7123859653)
Naver store add-on kits (https://smartstore.naver.com/geonlab/products/7123853176)
Geonworks Global Store (https://geon.works/products/gb-keykobo-beige-dolch)

DailyClack is now also live
Oceania: DailyClack (https://dailyclack.com/products/keykobo-beige-dolch)

6/9/2022
ZionStudio is now live
SEA: ZionStudios (https://zionstudios.ph/product/groupbuy-kk-dolchbeige/)

Waiting for the rest of the vendors to go live and will update accordingly
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | GB 2/9 CMYK & CMYW & Extension added|Doubleshot ABS
Post by: rookb on Fri, 02 September 2022, 17:19:54: Sad to see no change to terminal in base or appearing in the extensions kit, hope the quality turns out well with that price tag.
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | GB 2/9 CMYK & CMYW & Extension added|Doubleshot ABS
Post by: Mangas on Fri, 02 September 2022, 18:17:32: Quote from: rookb on Fri, 02 September 2022, 17:19:54
Sad to see no change to terminal in base or appearing in the extensions kit, hope the quality turns out well with that price tag.
I would have gone with terminal ISO in base from the get go if I knew the molds for it existed when I started making the base kit . I considered it heavily when you posted your comment on the IC but ultimately decided to keep the base kits unchanged . I agree I probably should have added it in extensions but it flew over my head completely since there was so much work to do , I have asked myself many times if I have missed anything and unfortunately this was a thing that I didn't think of . I really do hope the quality turns out to be great as well.
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | GB 2/9 CMYK & CMYW & Extension added|Doubleshot ABS
Post by: Arrinura on Sun, 04 September 2022, 02:55:57: Apparently in Ashkeebs' website, the base kit for Dolch includes teal accents. Is that actually the updated render?

(https://www.ashkeebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Keykobo-Dolch-Base.jpg)
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | GB 2/9 CMYK & CMYW & Extension added|Doubleshot ABS
Post by: Mangas on Sun, 04 September 2022, 06:17:15: Quote from: Arrinura on Sun, 04 September 2022, 02:55:57
Apparently in Ashkeebs' website, the base kit for Dolch includes teal accents. Is that actually the updated render?

Show Image
(https://www.ashkeebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Keykobo-Dolch-Base.jpg)

There has been a mistake from Ashkeebs , I will talk to them about it , the final renders is as in the GB thread here .
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | GB 2/9 CMYK & CMYW & Extension added|Doubleshot ABS
Post by: JQ27 on Sun, 04 September 2022, 14:41:04: Quote from: Mangas on Fri, 02 September 2022, 18:17:32
Quote from: rookb on Fri, 02 September 2022, 17:19:54
Sad to see no change to terminal in base or appearing in the extensions kit, hope the quality turns out well with that price tag.
I would have gone with terminal ISO in base from the get go if I knew the molds for it existed when I started making the base kit . I considered it heavily when you posted your comment on the IC but ultimately decided to keep the base kits unchanged . I agree I probably should have added it in extensions but it flew over my head completely since there was so much work to do , I have asked myself many times if I have missed anything and unfortunately this was a thing that I didn't think of . I really do hope the quality turns out to be great as well.

On the flip side, just picked up a full set of kits for myself with the UK-ISO support. Would be very interesting to see if Keykobo can run expanded language kits at much more reasonable prices than another double-shot ABS key cap maker.
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | GB 2/9 CMYK & CMYW & Extension added|Doubleshot ABS
Post by: Mangas on Thu, 08 September 2022, 19:02:22: I am happy to update everyone that Mechs & Co (https://mechsandco.com/collections/current-group-buys/products/beige-dolch-keycaps) page is now live
USA: Mechs & Co (https://mechsandco.com/collections/current-group-buys/products/beige-dolch-keycaps)
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | GB 2/9 CMYK & CMYW & Extension added|Doubleshot ABS
Post by: Mangas on Sun, 11 September 2022, 11:24:52: zFrontier (https://www.zfrontier.com/app/mch/lDDeLPRXOArl) is now live too :
China / International : zFrontier (https://www.zfrontier.com/app/mch/lDDeLPRXOArl)

All vendors are live :)
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | GB 2/9 CMYK & CMYW & Extension added|Doubleshot ABS
Post by: dvorcol on Mon, 10 October 2022, 15:11:36: For anyone interested, Mechs & Co. is still live (but maybe ending today?) - https://mechsandco.com/collections/current-group-buys/products/beige-dolch-keycaps
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | CANCELLED
Post by: Mangas on Wed, 26 October 2022, 08:04:04: Hello everyone I regret to inform you that this project has been cancelled due to not reaching the MOQ .

I want to thank all vendors who agreed to run this and apologize to the customers for the inconvenience , thank you for supporting the project , refunds shall start soon from each vendor .
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | CANCELLED
Post by: white_rabbit on Wed, 26 October 2022, 10:50:05: Quote from: Mangas on Wed, 26 October 2022, 08:04:04
Hello everyone I regret to inform you that this project has been cancelled due to not reaching the MOQ .

I want to thank all vendors who agreed to run this and apologize to the customers for the inconvenience , thank you for supporting the project , refunds shall start soon from each vendor .

Can you share with us what the MOQ was?
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | CANCELLED
Post by: mr_foggy on Thu, 27 October 2022, 07:46:44: Quote from: Mangas on Wed, 26 October 2022, 08:04:04
Hello everyone I regret to inform you that this project has been cancelled due to not reaching the MOQ .

I want to thank all vendors who agreed to run this and apologize to the customers for the inconvenience , thank you for supporting the project , refunds shall start soon from each vendor .
sad to see this one fail while sets with way worse kitting get bought out
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | CANCELLED
Post by: Zini.Ethan on Tue, 15 November 2022, 18:26:22: Quote from: Mangas on Wed, 26 October 2022, 08:04:04
Hello everyone I regret to inform you that this project has been cancelled due to not reaching the MOQ .

I want to thank all vendors who agreed to run this and apologize to the customers for the inconvenience , thank you for supporting the project , refunds shall start soon from each vendor .
That's a bummer, they were such a competitive price. The gmk CYMK addon is out on GB now but it's over twice the price.
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | CANCELLED
Post by: HungerMechanic on Tue, 15 November 2022, 19:09:21: I know. I actually put money into this, but it got cancelled. So I have to go with GMK for 2x the price. Hope the quality is worth it!
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | CANCELLED
Post by: involuntarysoul on Thu, 23 February 2023, 02:38:33: any chance to run just the CMYK & CMYW Add-on Kits?
it is gonna sell like hot cakes
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | CANCELLED
Post by: mr_foggy on Thu, 23 February 2023, 10:51:39: Quote from: involuntarysoul on Thu, 23 February 2023, 02:38:33
any chance to run just the CMYK & CMYW Add-on Kits?
it is gonna sell like hot cakes
keykobo gigachad is being produced as we speak
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | CANCELLED
Post by: involuntarysoul on Sat, 25 February 2023, 23:38:40: keykobo gigachad is being produced as we speak
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o really, any idea on the time frame? going to be in stock buy i assume?
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | CANCELLED
Post by: twitchytheinsideman on Sun, 26 February 2023, 15:06:05: Quote from: involuntarysoul on Sat, 25 February 2023, 23:38:40

keykobo gigachad is being produced as we speak

o really, any idea on the time frame? going to be in stock buy i assume?
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Yes, according to ankit it is going to be instock. It is in production since 2/6/2023.
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | CANCELLED
Post by: involuntarysoul on Mon, 27 February 2023, 22:36:06: Quote from: twitchytheinsideman on Sun, 26 February 2023, 15:06:05
Yes, according to ankit it is going to be instock. It is in production since 2/6/2023.

cool, they would probably arrive alot sooner than the current GMK ones
Title: Re: [GB] Keykobo Beige & Dolch | CANCELLED
Post by: Nihadoid on Sun, 01 September 2024, 17:40:05: Any chance of a rerun?