My Kingdom for Smooth ABS SA Keycaps
Every time I build a new keyboard, I go hunting for keycaps. And every time I go hunting, it eventually devolves into a desperate search for SA (or equivalent) profile keycaps with a smooth finish. SA is the ultimate profile, IMHO, and they're relatively hard to come by. Signature Plastics, which is where a lot of SA sets come from like the T0mb3ry SA Carbon set (they might actually hold the trademark on the SA profile if I'm not mistaken), is reportedly going through some management/ownership struggles (last I heard, they're looking for new ownership), and along with apparently the rest of the industry, they seem to be neglecting this superior keycap profile in their own stocks. If you order direct from them, they have a couple themed sets in stock (maybe), but generally you can have any color you want, as long as it's black or white. Drop carries a fair number of MT3 profile sets, which are very similar to SA. But just like SP's SA-P profile, they're made with a different...
Apr 10, 2024
$55.00USD to ship this item to where I live is a joke. Might as well buy it from Newegg or Ebay direct due to charging the same price when it comes to shipping, hence MD isn't good value anymore.
Amazing how you lot have fallen down especially when it comes to sending freight around the world. All your Competitors suddenly look good again to purchase from ; )
It's not a light weight keyboard at all, yet you are saying that the Roccat TKL is somehow 5 or 10 kilos in weight due to currently charging now $55.37USD?
Time to explain why some items are shipped dirt cheap and others you rape the customer in charges, not fair if you are using the same shipper which I know is DHL. Maybe you've seen how certain dodgy Ebay sellers charge large amounts in shipping and pocketing the extra profits for themselves.
Suppose asking these important questions never really clicked with the likes of you, due to simple minded cretins who would rather be permanent MD felchers instead.
ALWAYS ask the questions and demand an answer, that is what this area is for instead of always sticking your tongue into their arses and telling everyone here, it tastes good, .....wake up sunshine ; )
As I provided evidence above relating to a previous purchase from here, why the HUGE price discrepancy (well over 450% price increase)?
You can keep on being MD's personal arse-lick I don't care but my question has been aimed at MD, hence I'm still waiting for their response (or their lack of).
Secondly I am with Elrick on this one, except for the name callings, we both partook in a great number of drops; and thanks to Elrick I also noticed irregular shipping costs as well.
All and all, we work hard to earn money and we just want a clear cut answer to ensure that our hard earned cash is invested in the right place
Shipping cost is all over the place because of the different "tiers" they have set up. For example, rather than saying every kilo you ship is $X they just say the first kilo is $X, then 1.0001 kg up to 1.999 kg is $Y, and so forth. That jump from tier 1 to tier 2 to tier 3 is very rarely linear either. Sometimes it will be double, sometimes it's just a few more dollars. Then on top of that they add costs depending on box dimensions. So even though the Realforce is a pretty heavy board, it's a rather compact box and ships for the lower price. The Roccat has some unique dimensions and results in a big ass box, which the shipper is more than happy to charge for.
I'm not 100% on what the actual numbers are for each of these shipping tiers and have no idea how they decide these costs, but this is how very similar things get wildly different shipping prices on our end. You add just a little weight and double the volume of space it takes up, boom. Welcome to your new much higher ship cost.
Don't like it here? Leave. You might as well, since you have no need for a nice keyboard when you clearly don't know how to write.