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bigguybbq
Mar 27, 2017
@jackhumbert , I was reading along some of the comments about the ship date being at the end of June. I didn't know if there was an explanation about why this is- I have a little indirect experience in dealing with manufacturing in China, and thought I could chime in (my experience with this is with my brother getting manufacturing done in China for a line of his products). Typically, when you (and assume "you" is in the USA, because that's the only experience I can speak from) are getting something manufactured in China, especially when you do not have a local person there at the factory to do QC: You submit your initial designs for manufacturing, and a short run is created and shipped back to you for inspection and acceptance (i.e. Quality Control). This takes anywhere between 30 and 60 days (if you're lucky), and usually involves several shipments back and forth, until the factory understands EXACTLY how you want the items made (and we're talking three components- PC board, case, and plate; which may be coming from up to three different manufacturers). I think @jackhumbert and Massdrop has already gone through this part of the process. However, when you submit an order for actual production, you might get another short run done to ensure all specs are met on a production run. There's another 1-2 weeks. Then the rest of the production run is shipped from the manufacturer (hopefully in one shipment). How fast the production run is sent depends on the delivery- air freight is of course faster, and more expensive. "Slow boat" (container ship) is cheaper, just takes more time, at least 30 days). This shipment is going to... Massdrop? Jack? I'm not sure. I do not think these Planck kits are being drop shipped to anyone from China. They have to go to the person who is also getting all of the purchased keyboard switches, keycaps, and slip covers (and these are all coming from different manufacturers and/or in-house stock). THEN, the actual kits have to be put together and packaged. And finally, the keyboard kits are shipped to the people on this drop (myself included). So, yeah, the end of June is actually reasonable. I assume that a safety margin was designed into that date as well, to ensure against shortages or delays on manufacturing.
bigguybbqThanks for the insight! Unfortunately I can't verify that these methods/time ranges are what Massdrop will be using - production and shipping is entirely in their hands, so please take these with a grain of salt when applying them to how this drop is organised :)
bsastor
779
Mar 28, 2017
bigguybbqyour explanation makes sense. especially when the kits arrive at MD in NJ all the way from china. looking at the huge order we have here as well, i do foresee a considerable time and many OT hours sorting out the stuff and repackaging. here is hoping that they shorten this lead time as best they can over at MD. cuz it takes about 2weeks to arrive at SG. It will be mid July by then, hopefully i am still enthu about this kb.
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