Our good friends over at Elgato (also part of the Corsair family) are launching a new product line today, Elgato Neo. We thought these would be a great fit for the Drop community, considering the attention to both function and form. We're very excited to be able to host this suite of creative-focused products on Drop.com. To celebrate the occasion, we're hosting a launch event of our own with daily coupon codes and a giveaway at the end! Head on over to the event page if you haven't already to check it out. All Elgato Neo products can be found on the event page linked above, or on their individual pages below—note that any Elgato Neo products purchased through Drop will get 10% back through Drop Rewards: ▪️ Elgato Stream Deck Neo ▪️ Elgato Game Capture Neo ▪️ Elgato Key Light Neo ▪️ Elgato Wave Neo Be sure to join the giveaway on the event page! (Direct link to giveaway) What coupon have you rolled so far? And as always, our usual reminders: ▪️ Drop Keyboard Club—see...
Apr 18, 2024
It's just sort of been all over the place... Looking like you're focusing on collabs, but saying you're mission as a group buy site hasn't changed (per Steve, in a discussion after the rebranding); up and down with discounts vs retail pricing; still having the community discussion boards, but having next to no 'official' Drop participation in them. It's been a confusing few months as a member. I'm sure it's a difficult business model to maintain (and even more difficult to have gotten started in the first place). The explanations do help highlight those facts, but I have to say I'm concerned about where this will end up if collabs are the main focus. Don't get me wrong, I've bought a few, and they've been great...but as time goes on, they aren't the real value bargains they were at the start. I have to use knives again as an example, because that's the majority of my interest here. We used to get killer deals on the FFxWE Ti/S35vn knives, really incredible bargains...and you sold them by the thousands. More recently we're seeing knives that use less expensive materials at twice the cost, and as such you're showing only a fraction of the sales. You can do super good bargain on an unknown knife, or you can do super high quality at a reasonable price....but trying for high end of the market, for the given materials, on an untested knife....you just can't get the same sales out of that. Especially after having a couple that had issues. Given the last couple I looked at, I'm not sure you can even do enough to stay afloat at the current trend. On a related note, and I know I've said this before, but it's insane that you can't get lower than average retail pricing deals on WE/Civivi knives, given the amount of business you've done with them. That alone speaks volumes to what I was saying about looking weak as a buyer when you can't negotiate an actual deal. And i don't want to rehash this whole issue, but while I have an ear that's listening, I hope you'll also be paying closer attention to the accuracy of the product descriptions going forward as well. You opened yourselves up to a lot of lawsuits recently, something like that happening certainly wouldn't improve things around here. I do hope you're right though, overall. I've heard there's a lot of *ahem* "restructuring" going on there since the, let's just say, no so he's heartily accepted rebranding. Here's hoping the replacements are given a clear directive and the changes result in a more organized structure, with better accuracy and improved communication 👍