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geekhack Marketplace => Group Buys and Preorders => Topic started by: BeesKeys on Fri, 10 January 2025, 01:37:00

Title: [GB] GMK Hippo - CANCELLED
Post by: BeesKeys on Fri, 10 January 2025, 01:37:00
(https://i.imgur.com/517A2kM.jpeg) (https://forms.gle/dp3fR5mPEQ6Ej2G46)

(https://i.imgur.com/J416vVd.jpeg) (https://forms.gle/dp3fR5mPEQ6Ej2G46)


Inspiration

Hippos

(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/09/26/multimedia/24styles-moodeng-bite-bfmh/24styles-moodeng-bite-bfmh-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600.jpg)


Kitting

(https://i.imgur.com/w1RWDMe.jpeg) (https://i.imgur.com/fVDpfwZ.jpeg)

(https://i.imgur.com/qKI9CME.jpeg) (https://i.imgur.com/h7NICsQ.jpeg)

(https://i.imgur.com/MlbCalY.jpeg) (https://i.imgur.com/Rhudjbw.jpeg)


(https://i.imgur.com/5zp9mmS.jpeg)


Renders

(https://i.imgur.com/fDmNBq3.jpeg) (https://i.imgur.com/6jEcLYK.jpeg)
Cake - HaytCo | Maja - Vulcan

(https://i.imgur.com/fPbUg9t.jpeg) (https://i.imgur.com/SZyQDzJ.jpeg)
Event Horizon - MVKB


Charity


25% of profits from the designers cut; myself and Cthalupa, will be donated to a wildlife preservation charity for pygmy hippos.

Fauna & Flora will be recipient for the donation.
They are doing work to protect pygmy hippos in Liberia in their native habitat ( https://www.fauna-flora.org/appeals/save-pygmy-hippos/ ).
David Attenborough is one of their VPs and has been working with them for a long time, and they have a 93% on Charity Navigator ( https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/813967095 )




Vendors


US: CannonKeys
UK: ProtoTypist
EU: KeyGem
CN: Zfrontier
OCE: KeebzNCables
SEA: PantheonKeys
Thailand: Aiglatson Studio
CAN: DeskHero
KR: SwagKeys

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GB Date: 10th January 2025 - February 10th 2025
ETA: Q3 2025




Special thanks
ImperfectLink for KRK - most of what we do would be much harder without him
Stella for the amazing novelty work
Moo Deng, because Moo Deng
Title: Re: [GB] GMK Hippo - CANCELLED
Post by: BeesKeys on Fri, 24 January 2025, 14:26:33
GMK Hippo has been cancelled.

Unfortunately, the sales are exceptionally low and will not be feasible to buy out to MOQ.

Vendors will begin refunding those of you who supported and purchased the set, soon.

Maybe one day we will try again. We can only see what happens.
Title: Re: [GB] GMK Hippo - CANCELLED
Post by: reidweb on Fri, 24 January 2025, 15:28:38
Sad to see this - I was really looking forward to this set, seems a bit premature given a lot of people may have been waiting for the much awaited January pay-day before buying - but appreciate you and the vendors have more experience forecasting there than I do.

I would love to see this run again, if running again I'd perhaps say ditch the UK ISO kit - much that those are the only keys I use, I am more than happy to pay for a larger kit if it has the benefit of making the broader hobby more sustainable by avoiding having the international vendors buy out huge quantities of two kits they will never sell to meet MoQ, I'd prefer they buy out smaller quantities of a single larger kit.
Title: Re: [GB] GMK Hippo - CANCELLED
Post by: B4zookaw on Fri, 24 January 2025, 16:47:59
I'm with Reid, was very interested in this set and was just waiting to end of month to be able to place the order. A lovely looking set and design theme, shame to see if cancelled.
I loved the inclusion of the UK ISO kit, that was a bigger selling point for me
Title: Re: [GB] GMK Hippo - CANCELLED
Post by: HubertThemad on Fri, 24 January 2025, 17:12:45
We appreciate all the effort that you and Cthalupa put into this set. Sorry to hear about the cancellation, but I'm looking forward to your future projects!