Author Topic: Red CTRL Keycap for HHKB (Read 5222 times)

cactux · « **on:** Thu, 16 June 2011, 06:48:21 »

Looks like the Red CTRL Keycap will be sell by a very short period of time so lets put a group buy in place
Red CTRL Keycap for HHKB

Any help from any HHKB user with previous group buy experience is more than welcome

chongyixiong · « **Reply #1 on:** Thu, 16 June 2011, 07:04:19 »

Woot - almost USD$400 for a red CTRL keycap..

Anyway, I believe that it is not worth it, and it's only for the first 100 buyers.

Might as well get the coveted Leopold 87U All 45g that is supposedly launching soon - or 2 used HHKB Pro2s - which you can use to dye whatever colour you want.

cactux · « **Reply #2 on:** Thu, 16 June 2011, 07:26:59 »

400 USD where did you see such price? I could not find the price

chongyixiong · « **Reply #3 on:** Thu, 16 June 2011, 07:53:25 »

If you click Buy It Now, it will lead you to a page to buy it.. @ 29,800Yen.

Crazy **** ass pricing.

I remember last time they had a promotion for the Red CTRL keycap it was more like a raffle.
You could purchase the HHKB + Case + something else for the same price as the HHKB itself though - 24,800 Yen.

http://www.pfu.fujitsu.com/direct/hhkb/

cactux · « **Reply #4 on:** Thu, 16 June 2011, 08:02:50 »

Man that is the whole keyboard not the keycap. I emailed my Japanese contact an hopefully tomorrow I will post full price

chongyixiong · « **Reply #5 on:** Thu, 16 June 2011, 08:05:52 »

Quote from: cactux;361641

Man that is the whole keyboard not the keycap

I know - why that when you can get this shipped in Japan for less than 20,000 yen?

That 5,000 yen could get you almost a brand new set of 60 keys from EK itself - which you can dye and experiment by yourself.
5,000 yen for a CTRL key is just crazy man - and I thought I was crazy enough to bid on one red CTRL key on Yahoo! JP few months ago for 1,000 yen.

I say we go ahead with the Topre custom keycap thing man - for that pricing we could even get the Korean aluminium keyboard tenkeyless TypeSolid man

Mazora · « **Reply #6 on:** Thu, 16 June 2011, 08:25:16 »

could we also organize a group buy for the new Type-S model

Mazora · « **Reply #7 on:** Thu, 16 June 2011, 08:26:17 »

I'm in in both case...

cactux · « **Reply #8 on:** Thu, 16 June 2011, 09:47:41 »

Quote from: Mazora;361652

could we also organize a group buy for the new Type-S model

Call EK they maybe considering getting some

noodles256 · « **Reply #9 on:** Thu, 16 June 2011, 09:52:17 »

HaveANiceDay · « **Reply #10 on:** Thu, 16 June 2011, 12:23:44 »

Looks like the red CTRL is a promotional gift for the "new" HHKB. I don't think they will sell those separate as it would make the promotion meaningless.

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Author Topic: Red CTRL Keycap for HHKB (Read 5222 times)