ColorWare Now Offering Custom-Painted AirPods 3 Starting at $319

[DemonOfTheFall]

Those red ones are fire. Digging the green and purple as well but don't think I'd wear the purple. Too rich for me but wish apple would do some OEM coloured options.

You don't just choose from a couple color options. You can get the case and each airpod in any color. They have, like 30 some colors to pick from, and in both gloss and matte finishes.

 

[DemonOfTheFall]

With all due respect, irrespective of whether you are affiliated with the company, or are an employee, your responses seem a little rude. If customers state genuine issues or concerns, surely you would take this on board and offer a solution if at all possible in order to keep that customer base intact. Customers are an important tool in spreading the word and generating even more sales after all, and in your position I would think very carefully with regards to your responses on a forum where you could potentially have millions of possible buyers reading..... This is your ideal opportunity to highlight what you customer support is really like.....

The user above highlighted a genuine concern. I assume the painting process would void the original Apple warranty, so are they still warrantied via Coloware?
If buyers are paying over $100 extra for the paint job, but then lose their warranty entirely (as demonstrated by @DMG35 ) or have any less of a support service as they would from Apple direct during that 1st year warranty period, then that's a pretty important factor to consider when deciding upon the purchase.

ColorWare warranties their products. https://www.colorware.com/support Check the Warranty section under Knowledge Base.

 

[DemonOfTheFall]

I’d go for a black matte pair, but since it will void my warranty, I’ll pass.

ColorWare replaces the warranty with their own.

 

[DemonOfTheFall]

does anyone know the coloring process that colorware uses? is it some sort of powder coating?

It's more of an automotive paint process.

 

[Ifti]

ColorWare replaces the warranty with their own. One year, I think.

Apple warranty is generally very user friendly. I wonder how many hoops you have to jump through with ColorWare? Especially going by the above user's experience....

ie, if i purchased some colored Airpods and they stop working, I wonder whether the process for a replacement would be as easy as Apple's, and when I get that replacement, will it be colored again considering what's what was paid for and returned initially??

 

[Ifti]

It's more of an automotive paint process.

Are you affiliated, or do you work within ColorWare?
You're the second new forum member answering questions as though you are part of ColourWare.......

Dont get me wrong, it would be nice if a ColorWare rep was here to answer such questions directly, but not sure why you would have to hide the fact?

 

[chanerz]

Wow it’s more expensive compare to the price of the airpods. It’s like buying a car and getting custom paint. Car=$35,000 Paint=$50,000 hahahahha

 

[JGIGS]

You don't just choose from a couple color options. You can get the case and each airpod in any color. They have, like 30 some colors to pick from, and in both gloss and matte finishes.

Yeah I knew that already. Still doesn't make them any less expensive.

 

[CarlJ]

I lust after those red AirPods. That looks a lot like the oh so yummy Soul Red paint color on Mazdas.

I still do a double take every time I see one of those, it’s such a gorgeous deep red you can sink into.

But I suspect if I were to get something like this, I’d go with a sparkly metallic purple. And I really wish Apple would offer AirPods (& Pros) in several colors.

 

[jsalda]

Not that I would buy them, but considering how painstaking it must be, the price isn't too high IMO. Do the math on how long it would take you to do these yourself and what you earn hourly at your job, I guarantee it's going to come out higher than $140 extra you're paying here. My concern is how durable the paint is, if you drop the case or a pod, it's gonna probably chip and/or scratch.

 

[WhatUp?]

So, 140 bucks for someone to apply a bit of colourful nail polish.

 

[BulkSlash]

https://www.colorware.com/gallery

They don't have any renders in their gallery. All real images. Their stuff is top quality and they have good customer service.

I hadn’t seen the library, just the ordering page where it’s all CG renders. The real things look pretty good, but that said, the finish around the dots and grilles looks a little rough. They don’t look like that in the CG renders.

 

[CarlJ]

Not that I would buy them, but considering how painstaking it must be, the price isn't too high IMO. Do the math on how long it would take you to do these yourself and what you earn hourly at your job, I guarantee it's going to come out higher than $140 extra you're paying here.

Yep, and you're paying for their experience/expertise - if I were to try to do this to one pair of AirPods, it'd be my first try, and I'd be likely to get something wrong. They have lots of practice at doing this, so they're unlikely to mess up any given pair. So I'm in the same boat - the price doesn't bother me too much, but I'd be very concerned about how the paint will wear, and if they get nicked it'll show the white plastic that's underneath. If Apple started offering them in colors, where they were actually made out of colored plastic, I'd be much more interested in those.

 

[sideshowuniqueuser]

I ordered a pair and the paint wasn't settled yet. I didn't notice so I went into work with red paint gushing out of my ears. Before I could even figure out what was going on, I was tranquilized and woke up strapped in the back of an ambulance.

I had to foot a $5000 ambulance bill because of these earbuds.

Cool story, bro.

 

[Ant.honey]

Just going to jump in here real quick and say that I won a pair of these from MacRumors and I gotta say, they are pretty sweet. The paint is very good. I have a matte black case and some sort of blue on the AirPod Pros and it's done really, really well. A couple of times while on a run one pod has popped out and I think that has contributed to some paint removal from the normally silver bits at the very bottom, but that's all (actually looks good as silver/chrome). They sound great to me. I replaced the OG ear fit bits with aftermarket, but that's probably just my ears. They fit better now, but still occasionally loosen. Nothing is perfect and I'm very active with my AirPods.

Anyway, yeah, expensive, but really good quality work.