Signature Plastics Crap Bag

[xmagusx]

Isn't this about the time of year they go on sale? Anyone who's picked up one before know if there's a particular link or anything that we should be checking?

Thanks!

[SpAmRaY]

SP says no date set but soonish

[xmagusx]

SP says no date set but soonish

Not much "ish" left to "soon" if they're wanting to do it on the 2013 books.

[SpAmRaY]

SP says no date set but soonish

Not much "ish" left to "soon" if they're wanting to do it on the 2013 books.

then it'll probably be in 2014!

[rowdy]

I'd be tempted again - about half a dozen novelty keycaps, a few others that my daughter wanted, various transparents, just about made it worth it, considering the silly shipping to Australia.

But not this year please - I have overspent AGAIN!

[kolonelkadat]

oh wow! I just looked up what you might get in one of these. I am so in.
http://imgur.com/a/cMFFM#46
those black and white ones are SO sexy.

[kolonelkadat]

oh wow! I just looked up what you might get in one of these. I am so in.
http://imgur.com/a/cMFFM#46
those black and white ones are SO sexy.

eta: oh snap. I think that guy is still around. I wonder if he would sell me those caps. Would it be rude to ask? They seem like doubleshot mistakes, would the stems even be okay?

so muck questions, so much lust.

[rowdy]

oh wow! I just looked up what you might get in one of these. I am so in.
http://imgur.com/a/cMFFM#46
those black and white ones are SO sexy.

eta: oh snap. I think that guy is still around. I wonder if he would sell me those caps. Would it be rude to ask? They seem like doubleshot mistakes, would the stems even be okay?

so muck questions, so much lust.

PM him and ask!

Most of the Crap Bag is crap, hence the name.  Occasionally a gem shines through - last time most (not all) bags contained a Hapster.  I was fortunate enough to find two Hapsters in mine.

[SpAmRaY]

oh wow! I just looked up what you might get in one of these. I am so in.
http://imgur.com/a/cMFFM#46
those black and white ones are SO sexy.

eta: oh snap. I think that guy is still around. I wonder if he would sell me those caps. Would it be rude to ask? They seem like doubleshot mistakes, would the stems even be okay?

so muck questions, so much lust.

PM him and ask!

Most of the Crap Bag is crap, hence the name.  Occasionally a gem shines through - last time most (not all) bags contained a Hapster.  I was fortunate enough to find two Hapsters in mine.

Not mine

 I had to buy a Poker 2 just to get a hapster

[rowdy]

oh wow! I just looked up what you might get in one of these. I am so in.
http://imgur.com/a/cMFFM#46
those black and white ones are SO sexy.

eta: oh snap. I think that guy is still around. I wonder if he would sell me those caps. Would it be rude to ask? They seem like doubleshot mistakes, would the stems even be okay?

so muck questions, so much lust.

PM him and ask!

Most of the Crap Bag is crap, hence the name.  Occasionally a gem shines through - last time most (not all) bags contained a Hapster.  I was fortunate enough to find two Hapsters in mine.

Not mine

 I had to buy a Poker 2 just to get a hapster

Yikes!

I have 4 Hapsters all together now, and my daughter has 2, thanks to Bunny

[SpAmRaY]

oh wow! I just looked up what you might get in one of these. I am so in.
http://imgur.com/a/cMFFM#46
those black and white ones are SO sexy.

eta: oh snap. I think that guy is still around. I wonder if he would sell me those caps. Would it be rude to ask? They seem like doubleshot mistakes, would the stems even be okay?

so muck questions, so much lust.

PM him and ask!

Most of the Crap Bag is crap, hence the name.  Occasionally a gem shines through - last time most (not all) bags contained a Hapster.  I was fortunate enough to find two Hapsters in mine.

Not mine

 I had to buy a Poker 2 just to get a hapster

Yikes!

I have 4 Hapsters all together now, and my daughter has 2, thanks to Bunny

Yeah I never got my Miami hapster either now that I think about it....

[Pacifist]

I only have 3 hapsters, two miami one BoY. Both from john. My previous crap bag had one or two interesting pieces, the rest were crap and some I had no idea why they were even made to begin with

[ideus]

This is only a proof of the weak quality assurance system SP has.

[kolonelkadat]

How is that? they clearly identified these as trash and removed them from whatever they were normally packaged with. I'd say its a sign of good QA

[IvanIvanovich]

I really like seeing the crazy errors like the pic kolonel linked to. It's like amazing abstract art.
I'm still hoping I can negotiate getting GMK's errors and overruns next year. Imagine getting some mad looking stuff in Cherry :O

[ideus]

How is that? they clearly identified these as trash and removed them from whatever they were normally packaged with. I'd say its a sign of good QA

Precisely: That is quality control, not quality assurance. The last is prevention, the former inspection.

[eth0s]

I really like seeing the crazy errors like the pic kolonel linked to. It's like amazing abstract art.
I'm still hoping I can negotiate getting GMK's errors and overruns next year. Imagine getting some mad looking stuff in Cherry :O

Yeah, I would be interested in a GMK crap bag as well.

[rowdy]

I really like seeing the crazy errors like the pic kolonel linked to. It's like amazing abstract art.
I'm still hoping I can negotiate getting GMK's errors and overruns next year. Imagine getting some mad looking stuff in Cherry :O

Yeah, I would be interested in a GMK crap bag as well.

+1

MOQ 400?

[Oobly]

I'd love one! What do these normally go for price-wise?

[kolonelkadat]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

[SpAmRaY]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

[Puddsy]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

[SpAmRaY]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

[rowdy]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

[Pacifist]

this year no one buy a crap bag and wait for next year when they make their crap super cheap and then we buy

[rowdy]

this year no one buy a crap bag and wait for next year when they make their crap super cheap and then we buy

No-one buys this year, they will not do it next year.

[vivalarevolución]

I bought last round.  It was fun selling them off, but I don't think it would be worth the hassle this time around.   I am only keeping about three of the caps.

[rowdy]

I bought last round.  It was fun selling them off, but I don't think it would be worth the hassle this time around.   I am only keeping about three of the caps.

0.3% - not a very good hit rate.

[Oobly]

Hmmm... 60 dollars shipping is quite a lot (almost twice the product price), but I still think I'll get one. At least I won't have to pay a massive customs duty.

Do they do it by number of caps or by weight? Does the shipping stay under double if I order 2?

[Wildcard]

I know the key caps I received previously were nice to have if anything. I ended up with a ton of SA profile. I also have lots of MX stems I can salvage now for other projects.

[VolantPhalanx]

Missed out on it during years past, definitely interested to give it a go this time around if not only for the Frankenstein collection of caps you are certain to end up with.

[ideus]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

Excellent way for SP to profit on its trash. This can only be seen at GH.

[rowdy]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

Excellent way for SP to profit on its trash. This can only be seen at GH.

They can't melt them down again - the doubleshot would contaminate the colour.

[ideus]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

Excellent way for SP to profit on its trash. This can only be seen at GH.

They can't melt them down again - the doubleshot would contaminate the colour.

Scrap cost was already included in the price for good parts. Customers already paid for it. Now they are profiting on it, one more time. They should gift it.

[ideus]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

Excellent way for SP to profit on its trash. This can only be seen at GH.

They can't melt them down again - the doubleshot would contaminate the colour.

Scrap cost was already included in the price for good parts. Customers already paid for it. Now they are profiting on it, one more time. They should gift it.

Group buy's leaders may ask SP to include the defective parts out of the production runs of the GB in the same lot. Thus, GB's customers can get some scrapped caps included with their orders.

[rowdy]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

Excellent way for SP to profit on its trash. This can only be seen at GH.

They can't melt them down again - the doubleshot would contaminate the colour.

Scrap cost was already included in the price for good parts. Customers already paid for it. Now they are profiting on it, one more time. They should gift it.

Group buy's leaders may ask SP to include the defective parts out of the production runs of the GB in the same lot. Thus, GB's customers can get some scrapped caps included with their orders.

Most would probably just throw them away.

[Pacifist]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

Excellent way for SP to profit on its trash. This can only be seen at GH.

They can't melt them down again - the doubleshot would contaminate the colour.

Scrap cost was already included in the price for good parts. Customers already paid for it. Now they are profiting on it, one more time. They should gift it.

Group buy's leaders may ask SP to include the defective parts out of the production runs of the GB in the same lot. Thus, GB's customers can get some scrapped caps included with their orders.

Most would probably just throw them away.

or they could sell them as their own crap bags and donate that to GH

[rowdy]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

Excellent way for SP to profit on its trash. This can only be seen at GH.

They can't melt them down again - the doubleshot would contaminate the colour.

Scrap cost was already included in the price for good parts. Customers already paid for it. Now they are profiting on it, one more time. They should gift it.

Group buy's leaders may ask SP to include the defective parts out of the production runs of the GB in the same lot. Thus, GB's customers can get some scrapped caps included with their orders.

Most would probably just throw them away.

or they could sell them as their own crap bags and donate that to GH

If you mean the GB organisers could collect all the mistakes and sell them as crap bags to benefit GH - yes, that would be nice.

[SpAmRaY]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

Excellent way for SP to profit on its trash. This can only be seen at GH.

They can't melt them down again - the doubleshot would contaminate the colour.

Scrap cost was already included in the price for good parts. Customers already paid for it. Now they are profiting on it, one more time. They should gift it.

Group buy's leaders may ask SP to include the defective parts out of the production runs of the GB in the same lot. Thus, GB's customers can get some scrapped caps included with their orders.

Most would probably just throw them away.

or they could sell them as their own crap bags and donate that to GH

If you mean the GB organisers could collect all the mistakes and sell them as crap bags to benefit GH - yes, that would be nice.

But nobody would buy the bags of crap if they knew they were just crap....the whole experience in buying a crap bag is the hope there will be something worthwhile in there....

[ideus]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

Excellent way for SP to profit on its trash. This can only be seen at GH.

They can't melt them down again - the doubleshot would contaminate the colour.

Scrap cost was already included in the price for good parts. Customers already paid for it. Now they are profiting on it, one more time. They should gift it.

Group buy's leaders may ask SP to include the defective parts out of the production runs of the GB in the same lot. Thus, GB's customers can get some scrapped caps included with their orders.

Most would probably just throw them away.

or they could sell them as their own crap bags and donate that to GH

If you mean the GB organisers could collect all the mistakes and sell them as crap bags to benefit GH - yes, that would be nice.

But nobody would buy the bags of crap if they knew they were just crap....the whole experience in buying a crap bag is the hope there will be something worthwhile in there....

Don't loss the point. The point is GB's orders already paid for the good and the bad parts. Why now SP is making additional money with the scrap if organizers can request it and split in equal parts in the orders?

[kolonelkadat]

because 99% of people dont want them. its just idots like me who think that some of the mistakes look awesome.

secondarily it lets people like oh my whatever key is messed up i need a good one to replace it. **** that noise.

[Pacifist]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

Excellent way for SP to profit on its trash. This can only be seen at GH.

They can't melt them down again - the doubleshot would contaminate the colour.

Scrap cost was already included in the price for good parts. Customers already paid for it. Now they are profiting on it, one more time. They should gift it.

Group buy's leaders may ask SP to include the defective parts out of the production runs of the GB in the same lot. Thus, GB's customers can get some scrapped caps included with their orders.

Most would probably just throw them away.

or they could sell them as their own crap bags and donate that to GH

If you mean the GB organisers could collect all the mistakes and sell them as crap bags to benefit GH - yes, that would be nice.

But nobody would buy the bags of crap if they knew they were just crap....the whole experience in buying a crap bag is the hope there will be something worthwhile in there....

Don't loss the point. The point is GB's orders already paid for the good and the bad parts. Why now SP is making additional money with the scrap if organizers can request it and split in equal parts in the orders?

hell you can probally make a bunch of full sets with messed up legends for people who don't care and only want the colors

[rowdy]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

Excellent way for SP to profit on its trash. This can only be seen at GH.

They can't melt them down again - the doubleshot would contaminate the colour.

Scrap cost was already included in the price for good parts. Customers already paid for it. Now they are profiting on it, one more time. They should gift it.

Group buy's leaders may ask SP to include the defective parts out of the production runs of the GB in the same lot. Thus, GB's customers can get some scrapped caps included with their orders.

Most would probably just throw them away.

or they could sell them as their own crap bags and donate that to GH

If you mean the GB organisers could collect all the mistakes and sell them as crap bags to benefit GH - yes, that would be nice.

But nobody would buy the bags of crap if they knew they were just crap....the whole experience in buying a crap bag is the hope there will be something worthwhile in there....

This is true, and, to be brutally honest, the main reason why I bought one, and suffered the hideous postage cost to Australia.

I was really hoping to get a Hapster.  I got two

There's probably half a dozen other novelty keycaps that are of any worth, the rest is mostly BoW or WoB DS - crap.  A couple of dozen manufacturing errors, and a handful of various colour miscellaneous keycaps.

Amusement value, more than anything.

[SpAmRaY]

Don't loss the point. The point is GB's orders already paid for the good and the bad parts. Why now SP is making additional money with the scrap if organizers can request it and split in equal parts in the orders?

Group buy organizers already have enough work involved I don't think they want to have to sort the bad caps from the good caps and then split them up. And I'm not so sure on the logic that somehow the group buys pay for the error caps, if SP screws up they have to eat the cost so they are free do with those caps as they see fit.

hell you can probally make a bunch of full sets with messed up legends for people who don't care and only want the colors

full sets are very hard to make from crap bags, trust me

[kektr0city]

Don't loss the point. The point is GB's orders already paid for the good and the bad parts. Why now SP is making additional money with the scrap if organizers can request it and split in equal parts in the orders?

Group buy organizers already have enough work involved I don't think they want to have to sort the bad caps from the good caps and then split them up. And I'm not so sure on the logic that somehow the group buys pay for the error caps, if SP screws up they have to eat the cost so they are free do with those caps as they see fit.

My guess is their pricing model includes some margin for error type calculations so as to cover the cost of mulligan caps.  As with any production or manufacturing business, the company has to know that their molds / machinery are not 100% perfect.  That's why tolerances exist.

[kmiller8]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

Excellent way for SP to profit on its trash. This can only be seen at GH.

They can't melt them down again - the doubleshot would contaminate the colour.

Scrap cost was already included in the price for good parts. Customers already paid for it. Now they are profiting on it, one more time. They should gift it.

Group buy's leaders may ask SP to include the defective parts out of the production runs of the GB in the same lot. Thus, GB's customers can get some scrapped caps included with their orders.

Most would probably just throw them away.

or they could sell them as their own crap bags and donate that to GH

If you mean the GB organisers could collect all the mistakes and sell them as crap bags to benefit GH - yes, that would be nice.

But nobody would buy the bags of crap if they knew they were just crap....the whole experience in buying a crap bag is the hope there will be something worthwhile in there....

This is true, and, to be brutally honest, the main reason why I bought one, and suffered the hideous postage cost to Australia.

I was really hoping to get a Hapster.  I got two

There's probably half a dozen other novelty keycaps that are of any worth, the rest is mostly BoW or WoB DS - crap.  A couple of dozen manufacturing errors, and a handful of various colour miscellaneous keycaps.

Amusement value, more than anything.

[rowdy]

25$ plus shipping
shippings like 15 bucks stateside, 60 bucks outside USA

The last round was $35 plus shipping

Hopefully they'll be a bit lower this time around. Seems to go up $5 every time.

So probably $40 this time

SP making $$$$ off their garbage  )

They have discovered that people (GHers in particular) will buy them.

I wonder if they will keep bumping the price a little each year until they stop selling.

Excellent way for SP to profit on its trash. This can only be seen at GH.

They can't melt them down again - the doubleshot would contaminate the colour.

Scrap cost was already included in the price for good parts. Customers already paid for it. Now they are profiting on it, one more time. They should gift it.

Group buy's leaders may ask SP to include the defective parts out of the production runs of the GB in the same lot. Thus, GB's customers can get some scrapped caps included with their orders.

Most would probably just throw them away.

or they could sell them as their own crap bags and donate that to GH

If you mean the GB organisers could collect all the mistakes and sell them as crap bags to benefit GH - yes, that would be nice.

But nobody would buy the bags of crap if they knew they were just crap....the whole experience in buying a crap bag is the hope there will be something worthwhile in there....

This is true, and, to be brutally honest, the main reason why I bought one, and suffered the hideous postage cost to Australia.

I was really hoping to get a Hapster.  I got two

There's probably half a dozen other novelty keycaps that are of any worth, the rest is mostly BoW or WoB DS - crap.  A couple of dozen manufacturing errors, and a handful of various colour miscellaneous keycaps.

Amusement value, more than anything.

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This thread - not even close.

[xmagusx]

Yeesh, this is getting much more ish and much less soon. 

[Puddsy]

Just wait

it'll pop up when you least expect it

and make sure you check weekly

[rowdy]

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