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Originally Posted by R GT

not being overly impressed with the ebay key haven't bothered with it but was wondering about xcguards key where is he and more importantly where are those superb keys he was having made?

Originally Posted by XCGuard

I spoke to Jason this morning and he fed me some really unexpected bad news. His boss has decided that the amount I was quoted for having the key designed, moulded and built was incorrect (roughly £2k). When I asked how much they now wanted for the job, they quoted a figure over twice that amount. I thought this to be completely unreasonable and offered to increase what they had originally quoted but nowhere near that amount, bearing in mind all the man hours they have already put into designing the key and building it before asking me for a payment.
It makes no sense to me for them to not go ahead with this now as near enough all of the work involved in designing and building the key is done. I offered to pay upto £2,750 to have them made but got the feeling they would rather lose out on this deal than budge.
I think there were other factors in them deciding to throw this deal away in my opinion 'purposely', however I think it would be wrong to post up assumptions about them.

I know alot of people were looking forward to getting hold of this key and have spent alot of time posting/contributing/discussing on this thread. I am really truely sorry for having wasted your time and hope you believe me when I say opposing to what some posted earlier in the thread: I really did not intend on leading anyone on in circles, nor did I set out to waste your time. I truely believed we were getting somewhere with this firm and that we were close to a result. To those who posted saying these keys will never appear, I am sorry to say you were right.
I would like to say thankyou to everyone who took interest/posted on the thread and especially to those who spent time on photoshop/internet getting hold of pics of keys etc.