dev-nullThe price is crazy... until you start getting into SA profile from Signature Plastics. Generally speaking, GMK sets will drop to around $110 for the full base kit in these sorts of drops. The kit includes enough keycaps to cover 99% of all layouts, really only coming up short on the more obscure types like ortholinear or ergo layouts.
CyphreThen why pay for a kit that has extraneous keys that one might not need? The pricing may be relatively fair for what it offers, but its exorbitant for those who don't need all of the keycaps included.
ProteshionalBecause GMK factory was never designed to make small batches of products. The bigger the order, the better. A big base kit that sells close to a thousand units is better and cheaper than one small base kit and 4 child deals (let's say 40%, winkeyless/tsangan, ISO)
ProteshionalBecause even if you removed all the keys you never intend to use for your particular setup, the price wouldn't change in a meaningful way. Unfortunately not everyone has the same keyboard layout requirements, so the 'complete' kit is the best option to fulfill the needs of the majority.
ProteshionalYou never know if you’ll want to eventually go to the dark side and try the odd end keyboards not mass produced like Preonic/Planc, Infinity Ergodox, Minivan,etc. I thought I wouldn’t venture that realm but I now own all of these except the Minivan. In this case these drops will cater to you.
You have to remember these drops are great as well if you want to make it your hobby because you cannot find quality keycap sets at your local stores. These drops are for special keys you can use on any keyboards that support the cherry stem if you buy a cherry switch keyboard in the future. For a lot of people in this community it‘s an investment.
dev-nullThe price is indeed insane. My memory might be failing me but I don't think that GMK Laser was this expensive. For base+pure hiragana+novelties+spacebar it will run me $320?!?
EtherealSoundIt would have costed you exactly $320. 140 Base, 80 Hira, 75 Nov, 25 Space.
You are all forgetting that this is the first day of the drop. It will decrease. Be patient.