geekhack

geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: WRXChris on Wed, 06 June 2012, 17:12:06

Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: WRXChris on Wed, 06 June 2012, 17:12:06
http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Cherry-MX-5000-Split-Ergonomic-ErgoPlus-Keyboard-G80-5000HAAUS-/190688213589?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item2c65e73a55#ht_3732wt_1395 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Cherry-MX-5000-Split-Ergonomic-ErgoPlus-Keyboard-G80-5000HAAUS-/190688213589?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item2c65e73a55#ht_3732wt_1395)

So this is the same guy that was asking $2500 for one of them Buy It Now for the past couple weeks, but it doesn't look like this auction has a reserve.

Anyone want to get a group bid together on these?  I really want one!
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: bazemk1979 on Wed, 06 June 2012, 17:15:46
same seller he had tyhe same run of 4 same keyboards and they sold for whooping $9.000 , so no this is not a great find because most likely these boards will end up as high as the previous ones.
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: WRXChris on Wed, 06 June 2012, 17:18:26
wow that's crazy!  i can't believe how much people will pay for rare awesome stuff.  definitely out of my reach. :(
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: Djuzuh on Thu, 07 June 2012, 01:40:33
Quote from: bazemk1979;608788
same seller he had tyhe same run of 4 same keyboards and they sold for whooping $9.000 , so no this is not a great find because most likely these boards will end up as high as the previous ones.

The last ones were NIB*I believe.
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: 7bit on Thu, 07 June 2012, 02:12:21
Quote from: bazemk1979;608788
same seller he had tyhe same run of 4 same keyboards and they sold for whooping $9.000 , so no this is not a great find because most likely these boards will end up as high as the previous ones.

Maybe he bid himself because the price was not high enough?

It's a strange thing he auctions 4 again and not one by one.
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: WRXChris on Thu, 07 June 2012, 02:34:37
He had a single one up 'buy it now' for a couple of weeks, and it looks like he delisted that and made this auction.

As I said before there is no reserve, so if anyone else is serious about trying to get one of these i think a group bid is worth a shot.

And by serious, I mean KMAC range, I wouldn't spend any more on one keyboard.
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: mbc on Thu, 07 June 2012, 03:56:23
Quote from: Djuzuh;609010
The last ones were NIB*I believe.

No they were used ^^
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: Djuzuh on Thu, 07 June 2012, 04:00:20
Quote from: mbc;609037
No they were used ^^

Indead, I just checked.
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: WRXChris on Thu, 07 June 2012, 04:17:32
damn. emotional roller coaster. lol
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: modulor on Thu, 07 June 2012, 12:49:25
Quote from: WRXChris;609041
damn. emotional roller coaster. lol

You're telling me... :sad:
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: mosrael on Thu, 07 June 2012, 17:04:43
I'm 5 minutes away from this place. To think, before they knew what they were worth, I could have gone in there and picked up 4 MX5000's for like fifty bucks. Sigh.
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: cactux on Thu, 07 June 2012, 17:11:44
^ Which place are you talking about?
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: mosrael on Fri, 08 June 2012, 23:13:57
The place selling these keyboards- it's right up the road. They do primarily electronics salvage, and they do business locally as well as through the massive eBay store. They must have happened across a lot of these destined for some Rochester tech-industry business that went under before the keyboards saw use.
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: mbc on Sat, 09 June 2012, 07:50:08
Quote from: mosrael;610116
The place selling these keyboards- it's right up the road. They do primarily electronics salvage, and they do business locally as well as through the massive eBay store. They must have happened across a lot of these destined for some Rochester tech-industry business that went under before the keyboards saw use.

They are used
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: MMB on Wed, 13 June 2012, 11:37:42
Would one of you rich people please win this and sell one of them to me?
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: MMB on Wed, 13 June 2012, 15:03:13
Holy ****... .ended at almost $8000.00.....

:wacko:
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: metafour on Wed, 13 June 2012, 15:25:16
Quote from: MagicMeatball;612831
Holy ****... .ended at almost $8000.00.....

:wacko:

No wonder you need to sell all your other stuff. You just spent a fortune! ;)
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: MMB on Wed, 13 June 2012, 21:13:29
Quote from: metafour;612854
No wonder you need to sell all your other stuff. You just spent a fortune! ;)

haha I wish those were mine :(
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: metafour on Wed, 13 June 2012, 21:51:16
And just think how much more they would have gone for if that last manual wasn't missing!
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: litster on Wed, 13 June 2012, 22:17:16
yep, whoever got the one without manual will never know how to use the keyboard.  What a waste...

;-)
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: modulor on Thu, 14 June 2012, 15:54:51
Insanity...
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: Sunnking on Tue, 19 June 2012, 10:48:32
Hey Guys! Thank you for your interest in our keyboard auction! We've been following your discussion thread intently after our first auction.  Must confess we had no idea they were as rare as they were and especially how much they sell for.  We auctioned the second lot off, starting at $14.99, just to see if lightening strikes twice.  In this case it did.  To be clear we did call all the keyboards used but that was only because we were not sure of their prior history as well as the condition of some of the boxes however they do look like they've never been used.  Probably just sitting in the company's basement for the last 25 years! If anyone else has additional questions regarding this auction or any other Sunnking auctions just let me know.  

Thanks,

Sunnking
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: Djuzuh on Tue, 19 June 2012, 10:53:01
Welcome :D.

How many such keyboards do you have left? :P
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: Sunnking on Tue, 19 June 2012, 11:04:11
Just a handful, maybe 4 or 5? Not sure what we're gonna do with them yet...
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: MMB on Tue, 19 June 2012, 11:05:02
You're going to auction them exclusively on GeekHack? :)
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: Sunnking on Tue, 19 June 2012, 11:37:22
Never thought about that! We'll probably sit on them for a little while.  I'll drop you guys a line when we're ready to make any further sales.  Thanks again for your continued interest.
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: Sunnking on Tue, 19 June 2012, 11:40:36
Scratch that, we actually have a posting for one of the Cherry's scheduled to go live on eBay this afternoon around 4pm EST.  We're putting it up with a fixed price but are entertaining offers.  If interested please feel free to make an offer through the eBay channel later this afternoon.

Thanks,

Sunnking
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: eth0s on Mon, 25 June 2012, 12:32:35
No Link?  Not a great salesman.  Here, I will help him out:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherry-MX-5000-Split-Ergonomic-Keyboard-Ergoplus-G80-5000HAAUS-w-User-Manual-/360467878900?_trksid=p4340.m185&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC.NPJS%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DUA%26otn%3D5%26pmod%3D190688213589%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D165092489473483683

$2,500 for this rare G80-5000HAAUS?  But the last lot of 4 sold for $1,972.22 each.  Why the price increase?  I guess because this one has the user manual, so user manual costs $527.78.  That seems like a TOTALLY reasonable price for a user manual (not).  Anyway, I would love to have one of these, but $2,500 is a bit crazy, IMO, even with the blessed user manual.  But what can I say?  One of you will buy it.  Maybe the idle rich should pay more taxes, so they have less money to throw around?
Title: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: Sunnking on Mon, 25 June 2012, 13:13:04
Hey Guys, The current listing has a "best offer" option on it.  If you feel like the price is a bit steep you're more than welcome to submit a best offer for consideration.  Thanks again for your interest in this listing!

Regards,

Sunnking
Title: Re: Lot of 4 Cherry G80-5000HAAUS / MX 5000 Split Ergo Keyboards on eBay!!
Post by: eugenius on Sat, 28 July 2012, 15:54:40
I'm thinking of listing my MX5000/MX5700 combo on ebay for kicks. :)