I have been actively looking for good deals or any deals in fact, in UK and I must admit that the market really sucks!!! I managed to grab two keyboards within the last 4 months (IBM model M – white/grey logo) and there are only one or two every couple of weeks popping up on e-bay and most of them in bad condition with missing keys etc.
I have also looked via gumtree and the likes but there is nothing to be found at all!
The most frustrating bit is that keyboards form the US that have good value and are in good condition usually have very high posting costs, sometimes as much as they keyboard itself, plus the obvious import tax, so they are almost impossible to buy at a logical/competitive cost.
My final foray was at all my local thrift and charity shops, where unfortunately most of them do not stock any kind of electronics at all, let alone something niche like model Ms and Fs or vintage keyboards in general. Local recycling centre was also a dead end…
So, my conclusion in general is that the UK market is bad when it comes to vintage keyboards, especially the ones that are descent. Do any other people in the UK find that this is the case?