Order came on time and the switches were functional without bent pins. Personally though I discovered these switches to be too heavy and have since swapped them for yellows.

The switches came in around a month, which i expected after getting stuff from xbows and that was good, no switches were damaged and the price was great, the gatron blacks feel and sound great, i was about to swap the springs from the blacks into silent brown switches so i have a more tactile and quiet type typing and playing games

Got used to the layout within 3 weeks i think. Im also in school, and had a few papers to write so i got the keystrokes in i needed to get comfortable. As with the standard layout, there are hard to reach keys. Having made the Xbows keyboard my workhorse, coming from the standard layout i cant really find any complaints. I would make the driver/layer fiasco for a newbie a little easier to deal with. The hotkeys for lighting was not easy to find, and i didnt find it through Xbows documentation or on their site.
Aside from that....i LOVE the center enter key and backspace. I LOVE the center shift key and the orthogonal layout feels so much nicer.
As a future software developer, and current student that writes a lot of code...i really wish there was a slightly more convenient place for the colon and square brackets. Though....i suppose thats one of the reasons this keyboard can be mapped however you want! and then one just has to swap the key caps.

Delivery was very quick. Qty exact 120 units. Thanks!

the silent reds are much quieter.