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DankMistaPanda
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Mar 17, 2021
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Drop, I know everyone is dogging on you and saying some pretty mean things. I don't entirely disagree with them though. The things I look at the most here are mechanical keyboard stuff and watch stuff. Don't get me wrong, I love that you're focusing in on mechanical keyboards etc. I just do not think it should be at the expense of the watch community. There's plenty of mechanical keyboard websites around who are insanely deep into the business, while I like the mech keyboard products here, I don't want another Mechanicalkeyboards.com. I just want quirky mechanical keyboard stuff that I can basically only get from here and only see small amounts of. I love the exclusivity, especially with Mito partnering up with you guys to make great keycap sets. I just ordered a Drop + Mito keycap set a few weeks ago. Or even Hotkeys Project, I didn't even know they existed until you guys began selling their stuff. I've ordered two HotKeys Project keycaps myself I don't want this website to have literally every single keycap there is, I just want nice keycaps that I'll be wowed at and Please know that I'm genuinely excited for more mechanical keyboard stuff as I buy everything for my keyboard from here. But also please do not sunset watches, I daily a watch that I got from here that I love. I've never seen anyone else have one like it and I love that. You guys have great taste and I want it to stay that way. I implore you to please take in this feedback and listen to the community. Keep evolving the watch community
Mar 17, 2021
Watchyoutalkingabout
Mar 17, 2021
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DankMistaPandaYou’re too nice. They deserve the scorn they’re getting. It’s also a pretty good indication that this is just the beginning of their final drip droop down the drain before they dissolve into destitution. The keyboards are easy move for them because they can order the same boards from China that anyone can get and get them customized at the same factory in Shanghai. People have multiple boards, but there is an eventual limit I think. Once you get the keyboard(s) you want and need, you’re pretty much done until something breaks. Not sure how many people buy a keyboard a month, like a lot of watch collectors do. The keycaps are manufactured by 3rd parties as well, plus the shipping costs are much lower. Essentially no limit in terms of one customer sales - an individual will buy hundreds of keycaps perhaps. Pretty good margin at $50 a pop, but it’s a pretty low ticket item compared to even a cheap watch, as most basic quartz watches cost more than that. Probably better margins on the watches as well. The audiophile stuff seems to have some pretty big margins, and maybe that audience will grow enough to maintain a skeleton crew. I listen to music in my car and with cheap EarPods, but I’m assuming an average buyer purchases a DAC, amp, IEMs, a Midrange pair, a high end pair, and some wires and bits to go along with that. Maybe more. But it still seems that there’s an eventual ceiling - once you’ve got the setup you like, you’re not buying anything unless something breaks. Now you’ve got the watch, and by extension, the knife and edc guys. We’re all nucking futs. We buy stuff we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress strangers on the internet we’ll never even meet. That’s what known as a repeat customer base. I started out collecting $70 seikos and worked my way up to $15,000 Rolexes. I’ve got more in my watchboxes than most people have in their retirement accounts, and I ain’t even close to being a big fish in the watch world. My collection is chump change compared to some of the guys that used to be on here. Watch collecting is a sickness, and an expensive one at that. Smack dealers wish they had a product like watches and customers like us. Think of it this way - revenue for the industry was 7.18 BILLION USD in 2019, and it GREW during the 2020 scamdemic to 7.48 Billion. But nah, Droop decided the way forward was keycap pogs and MP3 players. I wouldn’t trust these mouth breathing mental munchkins to run a bath, let alone a company. They’ve essentially signaled that they’re on a downward trajectory towards going out of business. The most valuable asset Droop has is their web address and they had to spend a ton of money to get it. They were originally massdrop.com and 4 letter domain names are expensive, so whomever came up with that brilliant idea effectively killed their business. We’ve just been watching it gasp for air the past few years. They probably figured the domain change would help them become their own ‘brand’ so they could sell their own name on China made crud. I hope the remaining employees are smart enough to be updating their resumes.
Mar 17, 2021
Kaos71
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Mar 17, 2021
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DankMistaPandaI chose my words carefully not to drag them too much. I understand what it means to something have to scale things back and constantly evolve. To me, I just felt that they decided to cut out the community that would have the most potential to be return customers and not have to keep acquiring customers. I don't know what goes into their process of getting these watch deals and as other had said, it seems as if over the course of time, the uniqueness of inventory was getting stale and infrequent. The hope is this vacancy in the community will force someone else to step up and that we can all find ourselves within another watch community that will move forward with what was started, then sort of ignored and then finally taken out behind the shed and shot, over here.
Mar 17, 2021
SpiritOne
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Mar 22, 2021
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WatchyoutalkingaboutThey have a store on Amazon now. I have to assume they were aiming to be bought out, which didn't happen. Now it's about riding out a few more years.
Mar 22, 2021
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