damn hear me out tho. what if a company or even a seller did an interest check, gauged how popular it may be, take a risk and MAYBE get too many and sell the extras anyway, all the while protecting the customer and not asking for money up front. it might even create this concept called ethical business practices. crazy. could you imagine? but yeah, group buys, only way to do business.
I just never said that they were only way to business, like even in the quote it says
"SOME INDIVIDUALS" so maybe stop trying to put words in my mouth. I said that there was a reason for group buys. I would love for every project to be in-stock and I literally said that vendors and larger businesses in this hobby should be doing gbs when they can, and not taking advantage of GBs but it's just not reasonable. Keyboard margins aren't that big, so even some vendors don't have liquid to do 100 unit runs of a mid range custom, individuals would definitely not, so they would have to take a loan (which they may not even be able to) and if something goes seriously wrong when manufacturing, they have could have to replace things and put them in the red and I do not want to see any individual go into debt that they can't pay and lose so much because of keyboards. There are valid criticisms of the GB model, and I agree with a lot of them, but saying that everyone can just do instock runs, it's just not feasible, it's more nuanced than that.
