Hello GH!
Here is an update on the Melody96 GB.
Sorry if we have been quiet recently with no updates but we are really busy in the production and problem solving, so we let other people trying to handle the communication (mainly jkaos).
SHIPPINGAs many of you know, we got many orders so the production was divided in 3 batches of 100. When possible, we ship in order of paid invoices.
What probably all of you want to hear now, WHEN MELODY IS SHIPPING?
- 2 May: keyboards with alu bottom with silver plate starts to ship (around 30 keyboards of batch 1)
- 5 May: Other keyboards with alu bottom of batch 1 with plates that are not silver (brass and all the other colors)
- 7 May: Acrylic bases all ready and checked
- 9-10 May: Batch 2 which contains alu of any color and acrylic starts to ship.
- Batch 3: continuous flow after batch 2 ends.
- EU proxy should be one of the last to ship, batch 3 (different orders)
PROBLEM SOLVINGNow, during the last weeks we had a lot of quality control and delays, some examples of problems we had to sort out:
- Acrylic bottom was really problematic, with a lot of waste of material and many produced parts didn't pass our QC check.
In fact the acrylic bottom ended up to be even more expensive than the Alu bottom for us, making almost no profit on it (well the final price was too low probably), but still we went ahead and we sorted out all the issues and produced it. - We had to change the electroplating factory for brass weight and plate, the first factory had a really dark one, so we had to search and find a good factory for it.
- The brass engrave was also redesigned, it was not looking that well on brass and was really problematic on the acrylic bottom, creating even more acrylic waste.
- Deadlines not respected by some factories, the initial CNY and some other things ****ed up the whole production plan/ETA.
- The environment department investigated anodizing and brushing factory very strictly this year. In fact the Anodizing factory was forced to close for some days and negociated with them and had to do many documents to re-open the factory.
- When we had to get things shipped, our multiple refuses of the object due mistakes or things not meeting our standards, made the thing even slower.
Sorry for these delays but we did our best to assure that everything has the quality that users expect from us,
often giving up part of our profit to do it.
I hope this clears things up. You will receive a mail with the address confirmation when your keyboard is about to ship.
PHOTOSJkaos/KaosJ already showed the album, but here you go again:
ContactsVincent.zhao@ymdkey.com
Vincent.zhao.889@gmail.com
Greetings,
Vincent/YMDK