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Offline wellington1869

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Has anyone ever successfuly acquired topre key(s)?
« on: Thu, 25 June 2009, 14:44:38 »
If anyone has ever successfully acquired topre key(s) (ie, "replacement" keys, either individually or as a set, either for HHKB or any other realforce model), can you please post the seller and approximate cost/fees/shipping information and any special instructions that you had to follow, in the wiki?  

There's a lot of similar info for cherry keys in the wiki, but nothing for topres.

There's also a generic 'buyers guide' entry in the wiki, but its largely empty.

May be best to start a new page there, called "topre keys" or maybe more broadly "topre purchasing" (if you want to include info on buying entire topre boards and not just keys...) or "topre reference" if you want to include info on what versions have what weight keys and what layouts...

Thanks!
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Offline Repoman

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Has anyone ever successfuly acquired topre key(s)?
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 25 June 2009, 15:01:39 »
Leopold.kr seems the only realistic source...
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Has anyone ever successfuly acquired topre key(s)?
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 25 June 2009, 15:36:00 »
I had a friend in Korea get Topre keys for me from Leopold.co.kr, who then cross-shipped them to me here in the USA.

They're really great to work with if you're in Korea.

I bought a 55g Realforce 87U, 2 blue WASD sets, 2 red escape keys, and a keyboard roof for the HHKB. Those all shipped for about $35 to NYC, and arrived within 5 days.
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Noppoo Choc Mini w/ Cherry MX Brown
Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2, Black w/labels
Topre Realforce 87U, 55g
ABS M1
Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite 2
Logitech diNovo Edge
Sun Type 6 USB

Offline wellington1869

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Has anyone ever successfuly acquired topre key(s)?
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 25 June 2009, 15:36:25 »
Quote from: Repoman;99164
Leopold.kr seems the only realistic source...


question - how are non-korean speaking, non-korean reading, keyboard fans successfully ordering anything from leopold?
As far as I can tell on their site, there is no english version.  
http://www.leopold.co.kr/

Can someone who has successfully bought from them, tell us something of the procedure?

Do you just email them (webmaster@leopold.co.kr) and hope someone who knows english comes on the line?

thanks...
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Offline lam47

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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 25 June 2009, 15:40:20 »
There is a company like cresent that will buy from Korea for you.
I actually almost bought some stuff from leopold through them.
I am looking through my emails to find out who they were.
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Offline lam47

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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 25 June 2009, 15:41:04 »
Here you go.
http://www.buyfromkorea.kr/
It was going to be $80 for 2 sets of wasd keys and 2 red escape keys.
So I passed.
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Offline wellington1869

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Has anyone ever successfuly acquired topre key(s)?
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 25 June 2009, 15:44:31 »
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Here you go.
http://www.buyfromkorea.kr/
It was going to be $80 for 2 sets of wasd keys and 2 red escape keys.
So I passed.


is 'buyfromkorea' the same as crescent?

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It was going to be $80 for 2 sets of wasd keys and 2 red escape keys.


good god. I'll pass too, but man what a production just to find out these things.
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