I think y'all need to chill out a bit.
Busy most of the day so I missed this thread but I feel to participate so here it is in reverse order:
projectD, as you can see, I don't imply anything at all about their keyboards besides font.
"never even admits to a whisper of distaste about their font", is all I said. Otherwise I'm sure that their build quality is great, but it doesn't speak well to me that a company is unable to listen to customer concerns, especially one which nearly every person who has seen a Deck has commented on.
We have made this point about their font to Deck, several times. As you know, Deck's background with their parent company (TG3) is industrial manufacturing. They don't have a wealth of experience making products for consumers and, until recently, haven't frankly had that much interest. This is reflected in their products. Good materials and construction, but not aesthetically pleasing. The font used on much of Deck's keyboards may seem ugly but they are also very easy to differentiate. When you consider this for an industrial stand-point, why this would be a
plus and not a downside is, imo, pretty obvious. You're also not likely to lose those sorts of orders over "ugly font" either.
Deck has told us that because of the way Double-Shot PBT key caps are manufactured, changing the font is a non-trivial process and requires physically retooling which doesn't come cheaply. Obviously they cannot do this without some sort of guarantee of ROI, and we, in the relatively small market 'down-under', can hardly give them such an undertaking by ourselves. Having said that though, we do have some alternative plans for Deck products sold here, it's not going to please everyone but hopefully it'll help those put off by the font to consider the keyboard again. I'll have more to say when our shipment of Hassium Pro actually lands in Australia. (Yes, this is the one shown in Deck's video and is different from existing Hassiums that are sold by us).
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This makes a lot of sense to me. It's not ever about the consumers, especially when they're the source of the company's money. It's just incredibly stupid that Deck never even admits to a whisper of distaste about their font, and two or three employees or paid customers, dante for one, feel the need to harp on about how wonderful they are.
Deck listens to their customers and get paid plenty by them, it's just that until recently, they haven't really viewed
you or me as their main customers. As I said, they do large production runs for other applications and they didn't see the need to change their practices for, what amounts to, a tiny percentage of their business. But we are trying very hard to change that and I'm happy to say we have good support from the higher levels of Deck to do this and they really want to push into the consumer market. It's a learning process, ingrained practices don't change overnight. Until then, feedback like this thread is helpful. Sometimes what we tell them is so far removed from their perception of consumers that they have a hard time believing us, so we can always point them to something like this.
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I chimed in because you were spreading BS.
You claimed the board was over $200: It is not.
You claimed the keyboard uses thin keycaps: Still waiting for proof.
Don't like the font? Complain all you like! 
But stop acting like a Vortex sales person by spreading lies.
You may be confused over the RRP, when Deck Hassiums first landed in Australia, the nearest comparison point for prices was a Korean store on eBay that was selling them for roughly ~AU$200, so many stores listed them as "Don't pay $200!", this is not and has never been their RRP.
As for thin PBT, you might be waiting for proof for a long time
. AFAIK, all Deck Hassiums currently being sold use Double-Shot Thick PBT. You can look at our pictures here:
http://mechkb.tumblr.com/post/59664045773/our-stock-of-deck-hassiums-are-genuine-pbt-doubleshot and decide for yourself.
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Because dante told you so.
Actually there's hardly any reason, unless you really care about double-shot PBT backlit caps. Most people are fine with normal PBT caps, and Vortex is rolling something out, but dante is a rabid Deck diehard, here are some of his quotes when I complained about their font;
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Let's see
when Vortex rolls this something out. Anyone who's done business with Vortex will know what I mean.
