Dusk.
An elegant, simple, dark themed keyset in Signature Plastics SA profile. I hope you like it!
Firstly Id like to say thank you to everybody who was interested in this set as it stands. Ive had quite a few orders, just about 70 kits so far, and thats awesome so many of you wanted to get involved. But I also must say sorry to all of you who put in your orders. Due to the pretty large backlash from the community im putting this buy on hold. I will be working with Harlw and LivingSpeedBump to further refine this set and the groupbuy process to hopefully have this set be better liked and accepted by the community here. All orders as of now will be canceled and the order form is being shut down. In fairness to everybody involved in this, ill be moving back to my Interest Check thread to continue developing this set.
Thanks again everyone who lended a hand and put in orders. Im hoping to get some updates out right away. This wonderful mockup provided by Harlw
Ordering InformationLink to order form:http://goo.gl/forms/h35ne3zA3GThere are instructions inside the order form on how to fill out the form. However if you have any additional questions please ask them here.
The moment this post is up the buy will be considered live and orders will open. Orders will close January 8th. Invoices will be due one week after the orders close on the 15th.
Shipping will be 6$ for two kits or less to the US via USPS flatrate. Anything more will be bumped up to a medium flatrate box at 12$
Any person looking to order from outside the US please contact me via PM. International shipping will be handled on a case to case basis through DHL.There is a 50 Minimum Order Quantity for the Alphas and Mods kits. Under 50 orders for either kit BOTH kits will not run.
My Business PlanA lot of people have been asking for clarity as to how my business plan is going to work and what have I actually planned for in terms of buyer safety. For everybody's information I thought it would be best to write it all out here.
I originally wanted to run this buy all by myself though my home on the South Shore. In my interest check thread though a lot of people discouraged me from doing that. A lot of people suggested using PMK or Massdrop as an alternative not only for my sanity but also buyer protection and sales. I reached out to both Massdrop and PMK about doing just that, having this buy run through their respective sites, months ago now. I unfortunately haven't heard anything back form Massdrop and my keyset still hasent made it out of the "Voting" phase that PMK's staff uses. Due to no retailers expressing any interest I decided to plan this all out as a one man show. Im still interested in getting a retailer involved or even running a smaller groupbuy by myself to gain a little traction around here.
My plan for running this by myself isnt too complicated at all. My biggest fear with this was running out of money when problems arose. A problem I found after a little digging is a common one. I ended up sitting down with my father, who's a financial professional, about this. He advised me to look over my margins and make sure I have a large enough safety net for even the worst outcome possible. The way I built in protection for these problems was by building in fees to each pricing tier. Each pricing tier value was rounded down to an even number (no change) then 4$ was added into each one. Shipping costs were also rounded up to the next dollar as another small additional charge. With and at a 50 Minimum Order value, that leaves me with about ~400$ minimum to play with. That 400$ is going to be used to purchase a few extra sets, cover return shipping costs, and pay anybody who wanted to get involved with the shipping process. At this point if there were to be any money left over after paying out all of those things there is to be a 3 week period before I pay myself for my time. Signature Plastics is looking at accepting new orders for March, and with an estimated 1-2 month manufacturing time, shipping could be estimated to be complete come April-May.
On the word of buyer saftey and protection all I personally have to offer is a few confirmed trades over MechMarket and a positive eBay seller reputation. In my interest check I have openly asked the community for help. Specifically high-post count or longtime GeekHack members getting directly involved with the shipping and invoicing process. Ive also offered to pay those interested for their time. Unfortunately no-one has come forward expressing interest wanting to get involved with the exception of Trenzafeeds. If anybody would still like to get involved you are more than welcome to. Or if you have any avenues where I could run this set such as PMK or Massdrop im more than willing to hear you out.
Again, im not looking to step on anybody's toes or steal from anybody. Im just hoping to ship out a keyset that makes people happy and to get involved with the community.
Pricing Tiers
Your order will have three components to it. There will be a charge for each kit you order, a charge for your associated shipping and a 4% total value charge for PayPal. All the kits
Official Color chips from Signature Plastics
Color Charts from Signature Plastics-
http://www.keycapsdirect.com/images/colors/absblue.JPG - Blues
http://www.keycapsdirect.com/images/colors/absgray.jpg - Greys
-----Main Kits-----Alphashttp://bit.ly/1KmNtif
Modifiershttp://bit.ly/1Y5JXyP
-----Child Deals-----Ergodox Kithttp://bit.ly/1VZ2ISy
Keys will be fully sculptured.
Additional Mods Kithttp://bit.ly/1NA1jQT
Mod sizes are 1.5u and 1u, with spacebars being 7u & 6.5u
Numpad Kithttp://bit.ly/1KPpjiD
The "+" And "Enter" keys will both be SA R3
Planck + Atomic Kit -
http://bit.ly/1NsHf1i
ISO Kit -
http://bit.ly/1J8VNNi
Color Kit / Mod kithttp://bit.ly/1LdoQVZ
-----Additional information-----The caps are set to be made out of Doubleshot ABS plastic.
The keys will be SA familyThese keycaps will be made for Cherry MX Stems only This set will run with the new row 4 shift molds Oobly recently announced. The set will be a true fully sculptured SA set.Thanks everybody for sticking around this long. I hope you all like the set.
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