Worthless marketing unless proven otherwise. So if you need 500 of something and get a quote, and then massdrop gets a quote, massdrop will get a better price because of what? Bullying because they are "massdrop"?Professional negotiations.
I'm a bit doubtful on this point as well, but it's possible that dealing with an established business rather than a random person would open some doors for them depending on the source.webwit wrote:So if you need 500 of something and get a quote, and then massdrop gets a quote, massdrop will get a better price because of what? Bullying because they are "massdrop"?
Not necessarily. If they spend time reducing a $4,000 order down to $3,700 they could offer a $200 savings to the buyers, and keep $100 for themselves. Everyone wins there.webwit wrote:Note that in order for massdrop to get the buyers a better price, massdrop must spend time and resources "negotiating", motivated by a lower cut if they do their work well. They must be motivated to work in order to earn less.
A small change, but noteworthy. We'll see how a multi-massdrop workflow ends up working. I'm going to suggest they try to set up a poll for us to gauge current interest and see if it's possible to determine our price breaks before we set up the actually massdrops themselves.massdrop wrote:We can set it up so that people only buy the components they want. It's an interesting setup because DIYers can come in and participate just for certain parts.
Diode prices get pretty good once your ordering over 10,000 units.
After considering the options, we think it makes the more sense to run this as multiple massdrops. We're going to make a modified checkout process so that you all only have to enter your payment info once.
Each component of this kit is a group buy within itself and we want to incorporate as many people as possible to ensure maximum buying power. This way, all the people interested in the kits get served, and so do all the DIYers who want to save on individual parts.
And that's not an easy keyboard to carry with you 
Then the key64 looked too different but ergodox is clearly the way to go.
Count me in!
Why do I have to sign up to some website for a groupbuy, saddens me to say this but count me out...bisl wrote:Hey all! I heard back from Massdrop yesterday, and they have the poll set up for us. Please drop by and and make an account to let them know what you'd like out of the Ergodox, be it the full kit, the PCB alone, or the PCB + Case, etc. This will help them work out price break information.
Thanks!
Non-embedded URL: https://www.massdrop.com/poll/ergo-dox-full-or-partial
QFTironman31 wrote:I'm ok with anything. Just as long as most everyone is doing the same thing so we can get the best prices.
They are obviously not the BEST pricing we can get as we are paying them for not doing too much.ironman31 wrote:I'm ok with anything. Just as long as most everyone is doing the same thing so we can get the best prices.
dirge wrote:So I'm hearing yes for the keyboard, no for the delivery method.
Case didn't arrive today, took a half day too... grrrr.
I think it may be easier to split this down the middle, geekhack to a US group buy, deskthority do a group buy. Before this implodes on itself. Bringing in 3rd parties to handle this better than ourselves is never going to work or provide as much value.
Thanks for trying this out for us!webwit wrote:"Hello, I'm a registration wall. You may not view these pages, and not view About us or Terms of Service."
"Bye. I was webwit. Go fuck yourself."
Alternatively, split it down the middle between those that are willing to use Massdrop (and actually get this done eventually), and those who don't want to use Massdrop, instead preferring to organize money handling, purchasing, and shipping themselves.dirge wrote:I think it may be easier to split this down the middle, geekhack to a US group buy, deskthority do a group buy. Before this implodes on itself. Bringing in 3rd parties to handle this better than ourselves is never going to work or provide as much value.
Dox's was a shapeways creation, very nice too just expensive!damorgue wrote:Is the Dox style case a milled one? Is litsters one without the extra wrist area out of the game?
