deskthority

The DCS keycap group buy is out at Massdrop!

https://www.massdrop.com/buy/ergodox-keycap-1

Hungary here.

I've made a poll on Massdrop about which profile keycap the community wants.

https://www.massdrop.com/vote/78/cast/#nav

The aluminium case is here:



Personally I don't like it, probably got my expectations too high.

There are some unknowns which have a significant effect on whether a nested GB is worthwhile: Are larger packages more or less likely to get checked by customs? Which countries perform less checks?
I'm pretty sure that only the shittier ones (like mine), but those are more to the east. I like the ...

richie wrote:You have to email them to add your country!
Look like no Koreans have ordered yet, looks like a lot of people waiting to see the aluminium case.

Thanks, I emailed them.

Now we're only waiting for the aluminium case.

Merijn wrote:I am going to pay the $20 shipping fee, on a $200 keyboard it's not that much. I've paid way more in shipping in the past so I don't think this is much of a problem.

They do not ship to where I live, at least I can not mark it on the form.

There are the things like marking it as gift or putting a lower value on the package, but that classifies as fraud as far as I know. Both parties must know the risk and agree to the risk of sending it as a gift or a lower value on the package than the actual value.
I would love to see them prove ...

The cheapest would be to have it sent to someone in Luxembourg, which has the lowest VAT rate in Europe when importing things, namely 15% opposed to 19% in Germany and 21% in the Netherlands. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax#VAT_rates)
That could be accurate ...

You could count me in the EU group buy as well, in theory there should be no taxes AT ALL between EU counties. If we can choose someone in a country where they don't really put much tax on imported items or where we can somehow get around the system, we should.

Saw this on kbdmania...
http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/files/attach/images/30354/699/705/005/666ca4e86eeeb2cb4f4183106b581be2.jpg

http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/index.php?mid=photo&page=2&document_srl=5705699
I don't know, I don't really like the plain sandblasted aluminium look. I think the brushed ...

This looks pretty cool, does somebody know what the "raw aircraft grade aluminum" case is supposed to look like?