Also, how is it that all the UK boards were without defect but so many others were?
mine isnt without defects
mine has a massive anodising mark across the entire back
you can see it in the pics xondat posted of my board on instagram
also, and i dont follow this thread a ton, but the reason i and a couple of others had their boards shipped to start was so xondat could check his packaging was ok given some recent issues on another keyboard buy with packaging he was trying to do his due diligence and make sure it held up, starting locally whilst it was untested and even in the small amount ive read this thread i have seen xondat mention that several times and didnt see any complaints about it then
should we have all received perfect boards, and should all these issues above happened, i could see how this could be viewed by people
should all the boards have arrived perfectly to xondat, and he got these 4 orders out right away to check the packaging, all was good and he then sent the rest of the orders this conversation wouldn't be happening
also to note that the minor scratches aren't the only issue with these boards and the boards we received suffer from every other issue, and as above, mine has a particularly large anodising mark amongst other cosmetic blemishes
by isolating your statement i can see how it looks or how people want to portray xondats decision, but given the context he wasn't trying to do anything untoward, he got ours out right away as planned to check his packaging, whilst he was doing the other quality control, and indeed some of the issues he has listed were found because of the few of us that have received our boards so far
this situation sucks, it sucks for all of the buyers, it sucks for xondat, and if the factory make this right it sucks for them as well but xondat is trying his best to rectify this for people, he didnt **** these boards up, the factory did, and as leader of the GB, his current role is facilitating a discussion from us the buyers, to them the factory, to accurately portray the issues to the factory and start a conversation towards a resolution, and it seems that is currently happening