Sharing my experience as well.
TLDR- Do yourself a favour and just don’t buy anything from Laneware. He is most likely an exit scammer. Unless you want to spend months asking for updates on INSTOCK items.
Album showing my DM’s with him for that spanned months over INSTOCK orders and a replacement case.
I ordered a grey LW67 during the Black Friday sale in November 2022. The only reason I even bought the board was the cheap price.
It reached me in Jan 2023,after some hiccups , Auspost usually does take a month so it was fine and I was happy to finally receive it.
The case had scratches on its lower side and a big splotch that looked like ink on one side and it was not coming off so that meant the ano was somehow affected , Idk what caused this. So I sent email about this to him to which I have not got a reply yet, I fact I had to DM him to check the mail, then I finally got a reply saying it should have not passed QC and said he will ship it on Jan 30th.
Long story short , I received a new replacement case 6 months later.
Each time he gave excuses like “The order was picked up by Auspost” or “It is scheduled to be picked up” or “I don’t know what is causing the delay” stuff like that…
I did receive tracking numbers but they did not update for weeks, which is awfully suspicious since they would have updated if it was in fact picked up.
There’s also the issue with the defected PCB but that’s whole different thing.
If I had paid the full price of the board I would have been very mad with the experience
Also his pricing is a big scam, he was selling the LW-67 hotswap PCB for $80 and refuses to make PCB files public to “protect company IP” even though there are much cheaper 65% boards with a knob and the board is 2years old nobody cares about copying it honestly. Making files public would have helped people who live far away to get their own since shipping form AUS costs around half the price of the PCB, but he doesn’t care.
Laneware(Joshua) is either one of the most incompetent vendors out there or just an exit scammer who hides behind stupid excuses like shipping delays etc (it would have been kinda understandable during COVID but nothing takes 5 months to ship especially when it is in stock) or both.
His discord is full of people asking him to reply to DM’s or just an update to their orders which barely any people get. I probably missed a lot of stuff but I think this much info is more than enough.
Not the first time he did this.