Drop
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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founder(s) | Steve El-Hage, Nelson Wu |
| Headquarters | San Fransisco, California, USA |
| Website | www.drop.com |
Drop (formerly Massdrop) is a commerce platform which performs group pre-orders, each called a "drop". Customers commit to orders before-hand and the order is carried out (and customers charged) when and if it has reached a minimum order quantity.
Users can request products by voting in Drop's poll system or by publicly commenting on a drop.
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History
In July 2018, Drop (then Massdrop) bought Geekhack from its founder iMav.
In late April 2019, it announced that it was changing name from "Massdrop" to "Drop".
On July 17, 2023, it was announced from both companies that Drop had been acquired by Corsair. According to Drop's blog post, Drop should continue as a "brand, team and community within Corsair". [1][2]
Guest mode
Drop requests that users log in. Login was once possible to be bypassed for merely viewing information about a ware by affixing the text ?mode=guest_open to the end of address.
Notoriety
Bad shipments
Drop/Massdrop was once notorious for having messed up shipments to customers: shipping wrong or missing parts, bad packaging and/or getting details on customs declaration forms wrong leading to overcharges or packages being destroyed. Dissatisfied customers have formed Massdrama.com for publishing problems.
Ping Award Winner
Drop (as "Massdrop") "won" The *Ping* Award in the 2015 and 2017 Deskthority Awards, as voted on by members on the forum.
Massdrop was nominated for various reasons this year: they were nominated for the Input Club incident, for missing parts, for shipping switches instead of entire board kits, for shipping items in packaging so terrible that items fell out or were damaged, for not being able to tell left from right and shipping two left-handed ergodox [Infinity] boards, for being "assdrop gold diggers", for still not having a proxy to the EU, and for adding to the list every week.
Trivia
- The company's name-change from "Massdrop" to "Drop" happened on April 29, 2019, exactly 21 years after the software company Borland's infamous name change to "Inprise" on April 29, 1998.
External Links
- Drop (Massdrop) on Wikipedia.
- Vendor forum on Geekhack.
References
- ↑ Corsair press release—CORSAIR to Acquire Drop Assets; Further Expand Peripherals Business. Dated 2023-07-17. Retrieved 2023-07-17
- ↑ Drop—Step forward in our evolution. Dated 2023-07-17. Retrieved 2023-07-17
