Author Topic: Anyone else have a CM QuickFire Rapid without any labeling? (Read 193498 times)

sleepy916 · « **Reply #450 on:** Sat, 06 October 2012, 21:30:44 »

I just got QFR with brown switches that I ordered from the CM store. It is branded, I was hoping it wasn't but it's not too bad. I suppose I could always paint it down the road.

cosmonauti · « **Reply #451 on:** Sat, 06 October 2012, 21:49:03 »

I actually think the QFR's blue/brown/black don't look bad with branding, it's the red's that have the ugly logo. grey/black is classy, black/white+red isn't

skriefal · « **Reply #452 on:** Sun, 07 October 2012, 14:28:58 »

The keycap font is ugly, and the printing on the spacebar would be best removed. The other branding doesn't bother me.

w4rtortle · « **Reply #453 on:** Sun, 07 October 2012, 18:14:50 »

yeah its only the key branding that looks weird imo. the case branding is fine. i just ordered one with blacks, im just going to get some new keycaps for it.

cosmonauti · « **Reply #454 on:** Sun, 07 October 2012, 23:56:45 »

I actually like the keycaps..

TheProfosist · « **Reply #455 on:** Mon, 08 October 2012, 00:31:02 »

Quote from: cosmonauti on Sun, 07 October 2012, 23:56:45

I actually like the keycaps..

i sadly dont even on the unbranded one they just dont feel quality. Now looking back i dont know how i used a 7G for so many years with the same caps.

cosmonauti · « **Reply #456 on:** Mon, 08 October 2012, 09:07:41 »

Ah I'm not sure about the quality - I actually like the font

dorkvader · « **Reply #457 on:** Mon, 08 October 2012, 09:40:09 »

I always liked it, too. But I have so many keycap sets, I just swap it out anyway. Even if the font is good, I'd rather have PBT.

Carter · « **Reply #458 on:** Mon, 08 October 2012, 23:05:53 »

To those having issues with left Alt, I really am not sure whats going on. I went and picked up 3 boards from RMA today that had the reported "left Alt" issue, and I all of them worked on my work laptop (Windows 7 64)

All red switch

Not sure what to say to be honest. Could be cord issues *Kinked* or somehow a controller/driver conflict

On a side note, I know I said I would check on the browns, trust me when I say I have been INSANELY busy and have not had an opportunity to check this yet. Its not as easy as making a call, the warehouse staff hates my guts for the **** I have put them through the past few weeks with this unbranded/branded fiasco.

cosmonauti · « **Reply #459 on:** Tue, 09 October 2012, 01:21:29 »

carter, you're a good person. thanks for everything

gameaholic · « **Reply #460 on:** Tue, 09 October 2012, 12:26:45 »

Hmm maybe the branded ones will become more sought after due to rarity.

Goliath · « **Reply #461 on:** Tue, 09 October 2012, 21:08:02 »

I got my QFR today, It has the labeling

Sifo · « **Reply #462 on:** Tue, 09 October 2012, 21:28:25 »

It's not so bad on the grey casing.

khaangaaroo · « **Reply #463 on:** Tue, 09 October 2012, 21:35:50 »

Quote from: dreamingftw on Sun, 30 September 2012, 13:26:56

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I have that same android figure at my desk at work! haha.
What are you using as a wrist rest btw? It looks like a piece of wall moulding?

OrangeJewce · « **Reply #464 on:** Tue, 09 October 2012, 21:47:41 »

Do blues come unbranded? Or is it still a gamble?

Cheers,

OrangeJewce · « **Reply #465 on:** Tue, 09 October 2012, 21:49:07 »

Quote from: gameaholic on Tue, 09 October 2012, 12:26:45

Hmm maybe the branded ones will become more sought after due to rarity.

I don't know. This is kind of a niche market, and a LOT of those were produced, so I wouldn't be buying them up for resale later.

Cheers,

tjcaustin · « **Reply #466 on:** Tue, 09 October 2012, 22:00:49 »

I think everything is a gamble. The reds are just less of a gamble.

ih8 · « **Reply #467 on:** Tue, 09 October 2012, 22:06:09 »

Quote from: OrangeJewce on Tue, 09 October 2012, 21:47:41

Do blues come unbranded? Or is it still a gamble?

Cheers,

the blues I got off amazon before this sale were unbranded

faciem · « **Reply #468 on:** Tue, 09 October 2012, 22:15:43 »

I just got my QFR brown from the site.

It's branded and defective (completely dysfunctional).

Pretty disappointed that i will have to rma D:

dreamingftw · « **Reply #469 on:** Tue, 09 October 2012, 22:23:09 »

Quote from: khaangaaroo on Tue, 09 October 2012, 21:35:50

Quote from: dreamingftw on Sun, 30 September 2012, 13:26:56
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I have that same android figure at my desk at work! haha.
What are you using as a wrist rest btw? It looks like a piece of wall moulding?

Yeah it is. Had it cut and eventually stained it. It's actually more comfortable than my ducky wrist rest.

Carter · « **Reply #470 on:** Thu, 11 October 2012, 13:03:28 »

Alright guys,

Just checked and unfortunately the limited QTY of brown switch rapids I have left are still branded. As you can imaging with recent announcements, brown switches are in major shortage right now so new stock got delayed a little for me until about middle of november for rapids.

Dajm · « **Reply #471 on:** Thu, 11 October 2012, 14:27:38 »

Thanks, Carter. And what about reds?

gameaholic · « **Reply #472 on:** Thu, 11 October 2012, 14:36:45 »

Does anyone have one or two of the CM storm logo windows keycaps they don't want?

Lu_e · « **Reply #473 on:** Thu, 11 October 2012, 15:22:51 »

Ya I sorta liked those too... but got rid of oem profile anyway. Sorry I only have my unused full set w/ 'WIN' ones.

Left alt thing gets stranger by the minute! maybe its a cord defect issue (like carter said) or not seating the cord all the way?

When I first put my cord into the kb it made 2 loud SNAP sounds, (one right away, and again when I was flipping the kb over after using it) I wouldn't call it a POP... quite loud and it actually kinda scared me like I broke pcb solder something. But it works great! I haven't, and have no plan to, EVER remove my chord after that but was wondering;

did others notice that?

swagpiratex · « **Reply #474 on:** Thu, 11 October 2012, 15:46:44 »

It was kind of hard putting it in....

...

lulz.

khaangaaroo · « **Reply #475 on:** Thu, 11 October 2012, 17:11:06 »

Quote from: gameaholic on Thu, 11 October 2012, 14:36:45

Does anyone have one or two of the CM storm logo windows keycaps they don't want?

I should have a few. You're talking about the swirly logo right? PM me your address. I can send em out tomorrow.

Rockferd · « **Reply #476 on:** Thu, 11 October 2012, 17:34:01 »

Quote from: Dajm on Thu, 11 October 2012, 14:27:38

Thanks, Carter. And what about reds?

The reds i just got today from amazon have no branding. Very nice quality board, quite the step up from my blackwidow. Reds vs Blue is interesting as well..

Xplaced · « **Reply #477 on:** Fri, 12 October 2012, 15:37:09 »

I got a Rapid with reds yesterday and it has no branding on the top/front at all. Just some on the back. The Windows keys say "WIN" on them.

It would be cool if they were auto-win buttons for games, but alas they are not. Just the normal Windows key.

Hey, one way to look at it is this keyboard comes with double doses of WIN!

Dajm · « **Reply #478 on:** Fri, 12 October 2012, 15:39:30 »

Xplaced, where did you order yours from and when?

nullstring · « **Reply #479 on:** Fri, 12 October 2012, 19:10:32 »

http://slickdeals.net/f/5323206-Cooler-Master-CM-Storm-Quick-Fire-Pro-Mechancial-Keyboard-with-Cherry-MX-Brown-Switch-SGK-4010-GKCM1-US-60-after-10-Rebate-Free-Shipping

Good price. Too bad it's still branded.

zpcrash · « **Reply #480 on:** Fri, 12 October 2012, 22:35:51 »

Quote from: Carter on Thu, 11 October 2012, 13:03:28

Alright guys,

Just checked and unfortunately the limited QTY of brown switch rapids I have left are still branded. As you can imaging with recent announcements, brown switches are in major shortage right now so new stock got delayed a little for me until about middle of november for rapids.

Hey Carter, thanks for getting back to us. Feel free to let us know if you ever see unbranded browns in

ih8 · « **Reply #481 on:** Fri, 12 October 2012, 22:52:17 »

Did anyone else see this thread? I get the feeling that this was picked up during Carters code sale. Pretty ridiculous.

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=36169.0

tjcaustin · « **Reply #482 on:** Fri, 12 October 2012, 23:03:10 »

/shrug

At the time, branding was a crapshoot and more people than not wanted unbranded boards.

Hell, I painted and sold mine that I got during the same thing as well.

ih8 · « **Reply #483 on:** Fri, 12 October 2012, 23:48:50 »

why'd you paint it and then decide to sell it? that sounds a little different than trying to turn a quick profit of roughly $40

tjcaustin · « **Reply #484 on:** Sat, 13 October 2012, 00:10:38 »

Painted it to do it and because I wanted brandless. Sold it because I then bought a pure, race and ducky yotd. I agree that my reasoning for selling is different than his but is it his fault for asking what he did (we've seen worse mark ups with CCs) or the fault of the shlep that was too impatient to wait to get a guaranteed brandless board from CM direct?

Fault isn't the right word, but my wordtionary fails me.

RSC · « **Reply #485 on:** Sat, 13 October 2012, 19:46:23 »

Quote from: xcelerate on Tue, 25 September 2012, 12:22:08

A huge thanks to Carter, my 2 brandless cherry reds got to Canada via USPS tracked in perfect shape! Beautiful boards, o-rings going in now.
Even if they came in branded i would have still been happy with the great deal and free shipping, can't really beat that.

However it looks like one of them has the left alt key not working issue :*(
The other one works fine though.

Is there any way to fix the issue at all?

Many thanks again and for this tip-off thread!
Couple of pics next to my plasti-dipped red switch quickfire.
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Who is this Carter everyone talks about? Can he arrange Quickfire Rapid Red with discount to Europe as well?

Dajm · « **Reply #486 on:** Sat, 13 October 2012, 22:20:53 »

He works at CM in the States.

rowdy · « **Reply #487 on:** Sun, 14 October 2012, 00:35:40 »

This was asked a couple of times earlier in the thread, but I could not see any replies.

Any idea whether unbranded QFR with blacks are available in Australia? CPL in Melbourne in particular?

WhiteFireDragon · « **Reply #488 on:** Sun, 14 October 2012, 01:13:45 »

Quote from: ih8 on Fri, 12 October 2012, 22:52:17

Did anyone else see this thread? I get the feeling that this was picked up during Carters code sale. Pretty ridiculous.

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=36169.0

That was my sale thread, and I just want to mention a few things:

1. yes I got it from the CM sale and profit about $20 from it, not $40. I was taxed when I bought it, it cost me a little over $10 to ship it, and took a small hit on paypal fees. Do the math.

2. I did not purchase it with intention to resell it. If I did, I would have gotten more than one. I already own 2 other quickfire in mx red and blue, need to make room for DIFFERENT keyboards. Profit was not my purpose, and if it was, I wouldn't have offered this free service (actually ended up losing money from that).

3. I sold it based on "value". The 30% off was only for a few days of promotion, it's not a normal MSRP. What's ridiculous is expecting me to sell it at or below the cost that I got it for and take the hit on shipping. At a buyer's prospective, you can get it for $90 (+shipping and/or tax) if you wait a couple months, or pay the $5-$10 premium and get it now.

4. Me selling this doesn't affect you in any way. If it's against your ethics, then just don't anything from me or anyone that sells CC for that matter.

Lummeh · « **Reply #489 on:** Tue, 16 October 2012, 06:04:49 »

Got my RMA back, left-alt problem appears to be fixed. Such a fantastic keyboard (brandless again) to type on and look at.

Not sure how much you're able to influence design decisions (although it sounds like you had quite a hand in getting us the less logo-ed up versions), but if cost isn't too much of an issue, it would be nice if the ink on the keycaps wasn't so prominent. I'm no keyboard expert so I'm not sure how they're printed now (pad?), but I think they might feel nicer laser etched + paint. Just a thought if it ever comes up at your brainstorming sessions

Thanks for the sale again Carter and all the support!

xcelerate · « **Reply #490 on:** Tue, 16 October 2012, 11:54:51 »

I think i will do the RMA for mine as well, i just didnt want to pay more for shipping

If i could fix the left alt key myself i would if anyone has suggestions that have worked for them.

As for the red keyboard in the picture that i posted earlier in this thread, i used red plastidip to paint the keyboard shell (i did not treat the original coating, so i could peel the rubber paint off at any point to get back to the factory logo finish) which worked well (if i wasnt in such a rush with waiting between coats i could have done an even better job).

Hope that helps.

Quote from: Lummeh on Tue, 16 October 2012, 06:04:49

Got my RMA back, left-alt problem appears to be fixed. Such a fantastic keyboard (brandless again) to type on and look at.

Thanks for the sale again Carter and all the support!

OddOne · « **Reply #491 on:** Tue, 16 October 2012, 12:00:29 »

Quote from: Carter on Fri, 21 September 2012, 13:13:10

Still working hard on getting the brandless topcovers. Finished packaging this week, and will be ordering soon.

Carter, any update on the brandless top covers? I'm still very interested in this possibility.

Thanks,
OddOne

cgbuen · « **Reply #492 on:** Wed, 17 October 2012, 22:13:07 »

Quote from: OddOne on Tue, 16 October 2012, 12:00:29

Quote from: Carter on Fri, 21 September 2012, 13:13:10
Still working hard on getting the brandless topcovers. Finished packaging this week, and will be ordering soon.

Carter, any update on the brandless top covers? I'm still very interested in this possibility.

Thanks,
OddOne

Curious about this as well! I'd be in for a gray as soon as it comes out (despite the fact that I said black when he first mentioned it).

suprsmo · « **Reply #493 on:** Wed, 17 October 2012, 23:07:09 »

USPS currently breaking my balls..

Date   Time   Location   Status
October 10, 2012   5:41 pm    CHINO HILLS, CA 91709   Dispatched to Sort Facility
October 10, 2012   1:28 pm    CHINO HILLS, CA 91709   Acceptance

No further updates.
Can't email usps outside of USA.

Wahh.. Meanwhile some caps I got from SP, are motoring along..

Date   Time   Location   Status
October 17, 2012   19:54:00    LOS ANGELES, CA 90009   PROCESSED THROUGH USPS SORT FACILITY
October 16, 2012   03:38:00    KENT, WA 98032   DEPART USPS SORT FACILITY
October 16, 2012   02:24:00    KENT, WA 98032   PROCESSED THROUGH USPS SORT FACILITY
October 15, 2012   22:19:00    EVERETT, WA 98203   DEPART USPS SORT FACILITY
October 15, 2012   22:07:00    EVERETT, WA 98203   PROCESSED THROUGH USPS SORT FACILITY
October 15, 2012   14:22:00    CUSTER, WA 98240   ACCEPT OR PICKUP
October 15, 2012   13:04:00    98240   Electronic Notification

Bah.

Don't know what to do. For $34usd postage, I was hoping to get the bad boy in a lil over a week.. was about that from EK to sydney.

suprsmo · « **Reply #494 on:** Thu, 18 October 2012, 19:41:13 »

Still no updates.

mmm.. what to do ..

rowdy · « **Reply #495 on:** Thu, 18 October 2012, 20:11:38 »

I had some key caps posted from US, and they went thru a sort facility in Miami and that was it for more than a week. No further updates (in fact that is still what it says).

Suddenly they arrived in Melbourne!

Your is 9 days ago, so maybe any day now ...

suprsmo · « **Reply #496 on:** Thu, 18 October 2012, 22:43:11 »

jah

I figure if it doesnt rock up this arvo, it will be monday

oh well.

rowdy · « **Reply #497 on:** Sat, 20 October 2012, 00:34:24 »

Collected mine earlier this afternoon. It has branding. Oh well. Cue order for custom key caps ...

Goliath · « **Reply #498 on:** Sat, 20 October 2012, 00:48:56 »

Quote from: rowdy on Sat, 20 October 2012, 00:34:24

Collected mine earlier this afternoon. It has branding. Oh well. Cue order for custom key caps ...

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I got mine too with labeling and I really don't mind it. The only branding I hated was the space-bar logo.
I just got a space-bar from WASD keyboards for like $1.50 and it looks fine. lol

rowdy · « **Reply #499 on:** Sat, 20 October 2012, 01:36:17 »

^ Same here, except the plan is to replace all the keys.

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Author Topic: Anyone else have a CM QuickFire Rapid without any labeling? (Read 193498 times)