WTF

[Jaffa]

I ask a company for some keycap's!

"Are you looking to replace all the keycaps on your keyboard? Your original email indicated only 6 keycaps.
Price per keycap is $100 USD each if you are only looking for 6 keycaps.
If you are looking for a complete keyboard, the price would be around $900 total."

[Acetrak]

What company?

[Lu_e]

Missing some decimals? lol maybe they mean 1.00  and 9.00

[rowdy]

Are you contacting girldc privately?

[tauburn]

lol. he probably sent an email to SP

[missalaire]

lol. he probably sent an email to SP

That's what I was thinking lol.

[Wopian]

Jeez...

[spherific]

Are these keycaps made of gold?

[rowdy]

Like I said - has he been contacting girldc privately?

[kmiller8]

I ask a company for some keycap's!

"Are you looking to replace all the keycaps on your keyboard? Your original email indicated only 6 keycaps.
Price per keycap is $100 USD each if you are only looking for 6 keycaps.
If you are looking for a complete keyboard, the price would be around $900 total."

They give you those ridiculous prices to keep people from tying up their machines/work lines with one/two orders of a cap. Because if they did that, they would be flooded with hundreds of orders of different caps that they'd have to manually configure their machines for.

It's meant to defer you

[gbohn]

> It's meant to defer you.

  It might also simply be what it takes to make it worth their while.

  If you are asking for what would be (for them) custom work, that might mostly be their machine and tooling set-up charge. So (just as a wild guess), maybe one key-cap cost $98.00 in set-up/tooling + $2.00 for a single key-cap.

  I've ordered custom produced circuit boards where one board is only very slightly less than having 5 made because most of the cost was in the setup work.

[tauburn]

>

you know you're actually on a site with a real quoting system now right

[gbohn]

> you know you're actually on a site with a real quoting system now right.

   It's worked o.k. for the last 30 years or so, so I wasn't in any rush to change

   (Not to mention that the auto-quote usually quotes a lot more than the part I'm interested in.)

   At any rate, I'll quit there since this is off-topic.

 

[kmiller8]

no, this is "keyboard key caps", off-topic is that a way ->

[Jaffa]

keycapsdirect dot com

I ask for normal PBT caps.
It's still WTF..

[Sifo]

Yep signature plastics

[Jaffa]

Yep signature plastics

I still find it ridiculous. It only plastics.

[Sifo]

You're asking a company that does bulk order of thousands of keys to do a personal order, they have a minimum order quantity, that's why.

To quote,

 

  It might also simply be what it takes to make it worth their while.

  If you are asking for what would be (for them) custom work, that might mostly be their machine and tooling set-up charge. So (just as a wild guess), maybe one key-cap cost $98.00 in set-up/tooling + $2.00 for a single key-cap

[rootwyrm]

Lesson One when ordering from SP:
Have a big order.
Lesson Two:
See lesson one.

They will happily get you down to less than $0.89 a keycap for a full keyboard. Provided you're doing enough full keyboards to make it worth their while, e.g. not bankrupting them with the machines down 50% of the day for tool changes.

And yes, they have a wonderfully flexible and responsive quoting system for even the most exotic of orders. Like, say, 41 ABS and 46 PBT? Took them about 5 minutes to give me the tiered price quote (for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, etc sets) including all the setup charges and format requirements.

If they're that cool, Interest Check forum is thattaway ---->