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.