At the Seattle meet-up over the weekend, we discussed the idea of a group buy to save on shipping and reduce the carbon emitted on parts coming from Berlin. With the protected battery boards expected soon, I thought it was a good time to see if there’s interest in a Seattle/PNW group buy on these new Reform components.
Additionally, if you had small parts you wanted to get but couldn’t justify the shipping cost, this might be a chance to add those as well. If you had considered upgrading your trackball cup, side panels, or wanted a new set of keycaps this could be a great opportunity.
Please note that this is a service I’m providing for people in my vicinity, i.e. the Cascadia region. If there’s demand for other regions of the US, we can explore that opportunity later.
If you’re interested in participating, please reply in this thread and I’ll talk to Lukas about how we can make this work and what the pricing will be. For Portland people or users elsewhere in PNW, I can offer to ship your goods with USPS Priority Mail using flat rate boxes (you’ll owe me for the domestic shipping). Otherwise, plan on picking up in person from me in Seattle, or I can bring to the next (TBD Q1 2023) Seattle meetup for you.
I’m bumping this for visibility. Anyone else interested speak now or forever hold your peace. I’ll follow up with Lukas next week to see what we can do about grouping the orders in one shipment and DM interested parties with more details on how we can make it happen. Thanks!
I’ll do a protected battery board and trackball cup (I already have the steel port covers after breaking the stock plastic ones on like day one of owning the machine )
If this group is still open, I’d like to get the battery boards but I am in Eastern Idaho. So I am not sure if I live close enough to benefit from this.
Local orders are sorted and ready for pickup. I think some of you wanted to wait until the next meetup (TBD, probably February) but if you want to meet up locally I can make that happen, just PM me here to set it up.
If you preferred to get your order via USPS I’ll probably get those in the mail next week, after the holiday weekend.
USPS orders are away! That means whenever @Rdb@klardotsh and @vagrantc want to pick up their orders just PM me and we can set a time to meet or do whatever works best for you.
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