Has anyone seen GMK Grab Bags?

[derzemel]

Has GMK ever sold grab bags (extra keys, damaged keys, etc), like SP?
Will they ever sell them? or their manufacturing process is soo good that they do not even produce such things?
What would take for us to convince them to not recycle the keycaps they do not use and sell them to us?
Could someone, that has organized GBs (@Wodan ?), ask them?

[scottc]

GMK probably don't want to sully their reputation of good QA by selling crap-tier leftover caps.

SP, on the other hand, have no such good reputation so probably don't mind.

[Laser]

Breaking news!

John W. Smith, the (both secret and well-known) MI5 British agent, was caught this evening by GMK security guard, Mr. Klaus Heidegger (60 years old), while trying to leave the building with two unique GMK Grab Bags under his coat. Upon being subjected to membrane keyboard typing sounds for two hours in a row, Smith finally buckled and declared briefly: "I wanted to sell the keycaps individually on Deskthority and thus ensure a wealthy retreat to Cayman Islands".

[ideus]

Selling left overs and defective parts has been a great business for SP; even if they just recover the cost of sales (Labor and materials costs) it is a great deal. It does not seem as a good move for GMK to start selling the same, they should have some, at least the setup's parts or the mold change adjustment scrap, but it does not seem as a good move, market wise, how they would look selling garbage?

[Shihatsu]

Currently there is a GMK-Dolch GB in ISO-DE organized in a german forum (computerbase) and the GB runner has asked GMK if they sell Grabbags. The answer was as expected: NEIN.