Hi GH! I'm starting an interest check for rainbow/white/"transparent" blank jelly POM sets, Gateron clear switch tops, Gateron switches, Cherry RGB switches, stabilizers, and 3mm LEDs.
Here is the reddit thread I created early morning. For the sake of brevity, everything below is copied from the reddit thread.
EDIT: should probably clarify that this is mainly for the CONUS and maybe Canada. International shipping would make these NOT worth the cost for the buyer, and I will be hard-pressed to help you should your order mess up since I'll be across the world and busy with my studies. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused, and if you are affected by this, please revise your form response accordingly.This interest check will last for one day before entering the group buy stage. The results from the Google form will be used for negotiating with the supplier. Please do not falsify answers for the form to ensure accurate final prices.----
Interest check form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IS-M-McRBQKyXSnNH174EAbKPojNg0byk14A5IcCtWs/viewformSo I may or may not have received some goodies for testing recently, and liked what I saw. And so here begins my first ever group buy. This will move fast as I am going to be going abroad starting at the end of the month. Shipping from the supplier should take about a week from the placement of the order, so I plan to place the orders within one week from now. Everyone is expected to get their items within 2.5 weeks from now. Without further ado, here are what I plan to get in this GB:
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Jelly POMs are blank. Will come in
rainbow, white, or
"transparent".
Options: rainbow 87/104, white 60/87, “transparent” 104 (not transparent at all, appears milky; supplier described it as "shiny")
Tentatively priced at about $45 USD + shipping + fees for the 104 set. May go lower if negotiations go well after IC.
Quantity of jelly POMs are incredibly limited (like, there-are-only-about-20-sets-of-each-and-not-making-more limited). As such, there will probably be a limit on it, and no option to select multiples of the same set in the form (you could resubmit the form multiple times if you really wanted to I guess, but I'm hoping to have more people get one as opposed to a few people getting many).
Be aware that Ivan and Feng from GH are both organizing GBs for jelly POMs in the near future, with more potential color options depending on interest and cheaper as well. I don't plan on undercutting them, but there is still no ETA for those apart from "soon" and I expect this one to be finished well within the month.
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Gateron clear switch tops are self-explanatory.
Options: 65, 90, 110.
Tentatively priced at about $16 for 65, $20 for 90, and $23 for 110, + S/H. Can Pledge mod for a couple more bucks (makes the tops glossy instead of frosted). I have done this before to great success. Here is my build log:
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Gaterons switches. Also self-explanatory.
Options: PCB-mount, packs of seven, black/red/blue/brown.
UPDATE: goofed on the form options and only had red/brown up. It's since been fixed.Tentatively priced at about $2 for a pack of 7, so $30 for a pack of 105, + S/H.
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Cherry RGB switches. Not much info on these TBH. Not even sure how you can use them to good effect other than as replacements for fixing Corsair K RGB boards, unless you go above and beyond like LastPilot and get a
NerD that has PCB lighting that shines directly through the switch to illuminate the entire switch and keycap.
Options: browns or reds. Appears to be plate-mount from pictures.
Tentatively priced at about $7 for a pack of 10, + S/H.
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Cherry stabilizers + wires (PCB-mount).
Options: 6.25x set, 7x set.
$7 for a set, + S/H (possible free shipping depending on # of orders).
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3mm LEDs.
13 colors.
Red, orange, and yellow LEDs are 1.9v whereas the others are 3v. If your PCB doesn't support the mixing of different voltage LEDs, then don't do it.
$1 per 20, + S/H.
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I think that's about it for now. Please let me know if I missed anything; never organized one of these before. As for my credibility, I have a crapton of confirmed trades on reddit's /r/hardwareswap and am a moderator of /r/mechmarket.
Payment will be done through either Paypal or Google Wallet. The buyer is responsible for the 3% fee if using Paypal.
All goods are sourced from a seller on Taobao whose legitimacy I have confirmed in a previous order. The board used for the rainbow jellies above is my own.
Update 8/5/2015 12:47AM EST: I've gotten ahold of both sellers and they have informed me that, if the current form responses go through, neither will have enough to fulfill all orders. Currently there are enough between the two of them to have enough for everyone who has responded thus far have one or two sets each, but no more.
