Quote from: demik on Wed, 08 October 2014, 22:13:20

How many do you own now?  You don't still have that huge collection, do you?

just an hhkb i got as a gift, a dead mx mini i can't find, a dead 356mini i can't find and a 3700 keypad.

we don't talk about the siig

I wonder if I should actually estimate the value of my little collection, I don't really think I want to know. It can't be too bad, right? 

The estimated value and what you've spent could be totally different.

Quote from: HPE1000 on Thu, 09 October 2014, 00:28:16

I wonder if I should actually estimate the value of my little collection, I don't really think I want to know. It can't be too bad, right? 

The estimated value and what you've spent could be totally different.

Well by estimated value I don't mean saying my keycaps are worth any more than I have spent on them or anything. (I'm not one of those people who says my collection is worth 20x what it really is because I have click clacks and brobots and everything, if you know what i mean)

I just mean try my best to guess what I have spent on everything

Quote from: HPE1000 on Thu, 09 October 2014, 00:28:16

It can't be too bad, right? 

 

You still haven't said how much you spent, go for it 

Well the name of the thread is what have you spent, not what is the estimated value of your crap.

Read what I said, please.

Or am I supposed to know how much I spent down to the cent?

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I was perfectly happy with my $29+tax Kensington Scissor-Style Slim Keyboard. Then I discovered GH.....


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hmm,

i've spent alot. not loads and loads, few thousand though I think.

And then i think I've spent about half that again on my modding etc.

Title. This includes keycap, switches, leds, cases, switches, etc.
As a noob I have only spent 280 on 2 clear pokers.

Hey OP since bunch of people like you love to open threads like this just to make them self feel better because they have spent as less as possible while others are shelling more and more into keyboards.

Now read this carefully specially because ur noob as u claim. I have spent probably around $2000-$2200 in keyboards thats including caps, Trikx Full Korean board and bunch of IBM's, next on the list is the light saver Korean board when new GB opens. Now keep this in mind, I hunted bunch of IBM's and since I had decent collection I also had lots of extra NIB ones. I sold bunch of the extra NIB IBM's  and already I made close to $2500 by selling them.... still have 7 more boards left to be sold....

So it looks I should be pretty even if you look at it from your perspective as in muahahaha I only spend a little bit and let them fools spend a lot muahahaha... BTW I have over $70.000 in savings, feeling better now?

Oh dear. Let's see.

In order of purchase:

KB-5181 - $2
Model F XT - $20
Model M #1 - $20
Model F 122 #1,2 - $70
Model M #2,3 - $40
Model M #4,5,6,7,8,9 - $120
Model M2 - $1
Kishsaver - $240?
4704 107 key - $150

total - $663

This is including shipping, but not including resales which have recovered a fair amount of my costs.

[Edit]: I completely forgot about accessories. I've got like $50 in Teensies in various stages, $40 in parts from Unicomp, $15 in extra cables for Model M, plus a couple other things I've got no clue what they are now...

i stopped putting $$$ in my savings account when i joined GH... that should give you a rough estimate

Same, I told myself I'd start saving again in the new year...

LOL.  Most of the big spenders don't even know.  I for one have absolutely no clue how much I've spent, and I don't particularly care to know that.  )  Hahaha.

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Quote from: SpAmRaY on Sun, 21 September 2014, 16:49:56

I think the going rate is at least a $1 per post.

I certainly hope that I am well below that.
Monies recouped in resales count toward bringing down the "spent" total, don't they?

there are some exceptions, but $1-$2 per post is the average
although I guess that's the story with averages

Everyone knows the story with averages. I'm at about $4-5 a post.

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More then I can ever count.....

Quote from: HoffmanMyster on Sun, 21 September 2014, 21:04:39

Okay, now I'm curious and considering tallying it up.   :-X :-X :-[ :blank:

At this point I'm not sure I could if I wanted to.

I have the majority of my receipts/invoices/transaction records in a filing cabinet.
Even still I can't actually keep track of it all.
I'm like the citizens of South Park in the Milkman episode where everyone is getting packages from UPS and they don't even know what they ordered.

Quote from: Dubsgalore on Mon, 22 September 2014, 01:57:41

and all the ****ty stuff when you are first starting out

I'm glad I got over that phase early. Used to pick up all kinds of weird boards off eBay but now I don't even bother looking as I'm only interested in boards I can actually use daily.

I bought literally every set I could get my hands on. Now I've sworn off DCS profile and stock keyboards.  :rolleyes:


Side note: As much as Demik is right, his post is hypocritical.

Certainly more than $1-$2 per post, for me.  ) I hope I'll get to spend enough time here for my post count to fit that rule before too long. I'd estimate I've spent about $1.5k, most of that within the last several months.

About $700 in two months. Hooked to MS Ergo 4000 for a while and still have two of them.

Oh god ander, why did you dig out that thread? It always makes me feel sad... Spent way too much...

Man, I wish I had $1 per post of stuff. Probably half that though

I wish I didn't spend $1 per post.

Quote from: hwood34 on Sun, 25 January 2015, 09:13:16

Man, I wish I had $1 per post of stuff. Probably half that though

I wish I didn't spend $1 per post.

Though if you look at some members, it seems like they have about $20 per post )

My current collection is probably worth something around 800 dollars (just 2 keyboards and a couple of artisan keycaps)

But this doesn't include the hundreds of dollars I've lost over time buying and selling stuff (probably close to 300 dollars lost in all)

For a hobby, this isn't half bad, I'd say. At least it's better than my college roommate back in the day who kept $40k worth of audio equipment in our dorm room (not including the stuff he left at home)

Broken Ducky £35, parts to fix it £25
JD40 kit £50
Lots of switches/stems £65
Keycap sets £72
Artisan caps £45

Total so far: £292, about $450

$3 per post?  Could be worse, I could have won the Clackvent )

And how many of you have to come back to this thread every few days to update your post?   

Probably close to $1000 but that's not including selling stuff so I'd imagine its a lot less.

How much I have spent, since November, which was when I started a lot of purchasing since I only had my BW, about 2k, and 500 of it was on things to go on my bface, and including board purchase, and a total of 6 boards. And around 10? artisans, Miami, and cords. I have sold/traded most of it, so my current price of everything is around 700, the bface really took a hit to my wallet, but it is so worth it.

I'm happy I sold a good portion of my collection... Still selling more of it

Hoping to stick below $1000

Currently on hand:

HHKB Type-S - 240 dollars
Extra red/blue keycaps - 17 dollars

RF87U 55g Uniform Type-S - 200 dollars
Digilog Case - 220 dollars

Artisans - 200 dollars?

CM QFR - 65 dollars
GMK Hyperfuse GB - 115



Shieeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. I have spent a lot more than I thought and this doesn't include all the money I've lost in buying and selling 

(removed smarmy gloating that makes me cringe looking back)