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Offline Paco666

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Blue Selectric I keycaps
« on: Mon, 17 December 2018, 10:57:37 »
Hey everyone, first time poster here! I’ve been checking these forums for some time and harvesting some knowledge.

I recently sold a nice Beamspring 5251 and while I was restoring it I stumbled upon a thread with similar keyboard that had some blue Selectric keycaps. I found them to be gorgeous and decided to try to find some. I guess that I’m lucky but I found some after a bit of research.

Now the question is how much are these worth?? I’ve been trying to find a price range but don’t seem to be able to find a price for these. Any help is welcome!


Thanks for looking!!
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Offline zslane

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Re: Blue Selectric I keycaps
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 17 December 2018, 12:18:47 »
If you really want to know the "current market value" of anything used and/or vintage, put it up on eBay and see what the bidding process produces. In the end, they are only worth what someone is willing to pay for them (or several someones are willing to outbid each other over).
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Offline Paco666

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Re: Blue Selectric I keycaps
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 17 December 2018, 15:05:02 »
I totally understand what you mean but in general it’s possible to at least know a range of price in wich an item is situated. In this case the only ones I’ve seen were on a red Selectric I that sold for 450 on eBay a while back. Other then that I haven’t seen any for sale, haven’t been able to track down a set and from what I’ve heard these seldomly show up once every couple of years. I’ve received several nice offers but I’m holding out until I can try to figure this out!

Thanks for your reply though!
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Re: Blue Selectric I keycaps
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 17 December 2018, 20:06:58 »
There's actually a thread for questions like this.
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Re: Blue Selectric I keycaps
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 17 December 2018, 20:27:52 »
Oh sorry, I didn’t see that thread. I saw the keycap section and it said all that’s keycap related so I thought it was exactly what I needed lol! Will repost if needed in that thread! Thanks for pointing it out.
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Re: Blue Selectric I keycaps
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 17 December 2018, 20:32:39 »
Quote from: Paco666 on Mon, 17 December 2018, 20:27:52
Oh sorry, I didn’t see that thread. I saw the keycap section and it said all that’s keycap related so I thought it was exactly what I needed lol! Will repost if needed in that thread! Thanks for pointing it out.

You're welcome :)

I'm kinda known for pointing out stuff like that ;)
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NEC APC-H4100E | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED red | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED green | Link 900243-08 | CM QFR MX black | KeyCool 87 white MX reds | HHKB 2 Pro | Model M 02-Mar-1993 | Model M 29-Nov-1995 | CM Trigger (broken) | CM QFS MX green | Ducky DK9087 Shine 3 TKL Yellow Edition MX black | Lexmark SSK 21-Apr-1994 | IBM SSK 13-Oct-1987 | CODE TKL MX clear | Model M 122 01-Jun-1988

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