So if i am right one set is 49$ O_O
I can get a filco zero tenkeyless for £40
£60.41 with VAT shipped to the Netherlands (£40 for the keyboard + £11.41 for the cheapest shipping to NL + £9.00 VAT @ 17.5%. [strike]And aren't there customs charges on top of that?[/strike] Apparently not among EU member states as this is the purpose of VAT), which is $96.59 in US dollars for a board with transposition errors (ripster will tell us how he doesn't have them), versus $49 for a set of double shot keys in a small custom run.
Apples and oranges.
To be fair, it's $72 shipped for the keycaps ($49 + $9 for international booster + $14 international shipping) to the Netherlands, but seriously - a faulty simplified ALPS board versus a limited run set of well made keycaps are two very different things.
Also, the Filco Zero Tenkeyless was discontinued (and is listed as such by
Elitekeyboards' item page). It's a clearance item. That's not to say it may not be a decent deal, but it's hardly a regular price.
You're probably going to have to buy one from another member. There was an aspect to the logic in the Filco Zeros that was unacceptable to many people, so the product was discontinued. According to Diatec, they had to implement a slower scan rate to properly debounce the Fukka switches; therefore, if you type very quickly, you could run into some transposition errors. Again, this would only occur if you could something like 150WPM, or on short bursts of typing like "the" for a lot of people. The first person to notice it couldn't type the work "note" without it sending "ntoe." YMMV, though.
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