Jem23

The Mercury S8 was the only case I wanted to upgrade to from my HAF XB Evo, and I've been planning it for a long time. Now that I'm so close to finally having the means, Caselabs suddenly dies.
... I am not okay with this.
 
I guess I could look at Protocase, or maybe just look into making my own, because no other company seems to make such a well-built and clean horizontal motherboard ATX case. The entire goddamn industry seems oriented directly against what I want, and the one small company that satisfied my niche perfectly now no longer exists.
I am really not okay with this.

I feel like a lot of small specialty companies will be shutting down to these tariffs. Does not affect the big companies as much as the small ones. RIP CASELABS.   

I'm sad
 
Caselabs represented the ultimate freedom for highest end custom PCs, something even average consumer like myself would consider seriously when eyeing cases with 1000$/€ budget.

I'm pretty sure they never considered themselves "mainstream" in the first place. I'm sure they were never geared to be mainstream either. What differentiated CaseLabs from the rest of the case manufacturers out there was the quality of the product, the upgradability and the customization of their cases.

The sheer number of configurations possible would have been a logistical nightmare for a company like Corsair for example who would need to switch their mass produce business model to something more of a mass produce/built-to-order hybrid for some of their lineup causing inventory overhead for specific parts and such. It's not going to happen. CoolerMaster seems to do it to some extent with the MasterCase series but absolutely not at the insane customization level CaseLabs was doing with each case in their lineup. Add to that that we don't know how well the whole custom thing is going for CoolerMaster either.

I respect them in a sense that they felt that their customers were looking for the best case all around and, if that meant that mass producing was not meeting their specific criteria of absolute perfection, they decided to go the built-to-order way. They were artisans creating timeless pieces of art.

god I wish they still made those.
 

Intimidating?  Poor soul, he must of never been in the presence of a TX10-D. 
 
At 500 bucks, no thank you.  It would need some serious function over looks at such a price.

Fulla 2 is a good option http://www.schiit.com/products/fulla-2