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Offline E TwentyNine

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5251 Beam Spring $220 BIN OBO +ship
« on: Thu, 28 April 2016, 20:39:36 »
Price is up there at $230 bid or $300 BIN: http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-5251-Beam-Spring-Vintage-Mechanical-Keyboard-/282016247138

Seller relisted it at $220 BIN OBO + shipping.  Seems a bit more reasonable:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-5251-Beam-Spring-Vintage-Mechanical-Keyboard-/282024259374

And a few keys look misaligned in the number row, but maybe keep an eye on it or see if they'll take a lower offer...
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Re: 5251 Beam $$$$pring
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 29 April 2016, 05:33:03 »
Don't think the number row is anything to worry about, fwiw.

I imagine this is the same one that's been around, this guy found something like 5 of them.
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Re: 5251 Beam $$$$pring
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 30 April 2016, 20:49:37 »
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Re: 5251 Beam Spring $220 BIN +ship
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 02 May 2016, 09:23:23 »
Does this require the beam spring display writer controller or the standard beam spring controller?
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Re: 5251 Beam Spring $220 BIN +ship
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 02 May 2016, 09:39:56 »
Standard controller, I found one of these locally recently actually and it's up and running.  Still wasn't cheap unfortunately, but who's complaining? They don't make them like this anymore :)
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Re: 5251 Beam Spring $220 BIN +ship
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 02 May 2016, 16:31:24 »
Quote from: orihalcon on Mon, 02 May 2016, 09:39:56
Standard controller, I found one of these locally recently actually and it's up and running.  Still wasn't cheap unfortunately, but who's complaining? They don't make them like this anymore :)

Yea, I consider it a lifetime investment in a rare and limited product.  Not expecting a huge discount.
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Re: 5251 Beam Spring $220 BIN OBO +ship
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 02 May 2016, 16:38:46 »
Played Quake the other day on mine. 10/10 would ice wrist again.
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Re: 5251 Beam Spring $220 BIN OBO +ship
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 10 May 2016, 21:14:37 »
This thing is back up.  Raised the price by $20.  I think shipping is lower, though.
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Re: 5251 Beam Spring $220 BIN OBO +ship
« Reply #9 on: Wed, 11 May 2016, 00:06:53 »
Quote from: alienman82 on Tue, 10 May 2016, 22:18:00
Quote from: vivalarevolución on Tue, 10 May 2016, 21:14:37
This thing is back up.  Raised the price by $20.  I think shipping is lower, though.

fwiw, I got him down to 210 last time he had it up, but I decided I can't do the enter key on this thing

Now I know why he raised the prices. I had offered 180, then 190, but he did not take the offer. He thinks offer is at 210+ship, so, now he has upped it by 5$ more on the top. I texted him that displaywriter one is better as has a better layout and more keys, and he has the top row skewed, may be a switch or two is broken, the plastic being so old and brittle. Anyways this prices is out of my league with a controller another 40-50$. I would rather wait for the modelfkeyboards.com to build a new model M replica layout.
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Offline ed_avis

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Re: 5251 Beam Spring $220 BIN OBO +ship
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 11 May 2016, 03:32:05 »
Relisted again, this time at $240 OBO.
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Re: 5251 Beam Spring $220 BIN OBO +ship
« Reply #11 on: Fri, 13 May 2016, 16:21:19 »
I'd be happy to buy this, if only the seller would ship across a border!  :blank:
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Re: 5251 Beam Spring $220 BIN OBO +ship
« Reply #12 on: Tue, 17 May 2016, 04:41:00 »
This seller is a/an idiot! Does not respond back to messages and rejects any best offers, even higher ones. Looks like he thinks somebody will buy a keyboard with broken keys for 240. May be for parts, then this should be priced for parts accordingly.
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Re: 5251 Beam Spring $220 BIN OBO +ship
« Reply #13 on: Tue, 17 May 2016, 05:26:09 »
Again, those keys don't look broken. They have quite a bit of wobble naturally.
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Offline E TwentyNine

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Re: 5251 Beam Spring $220 BIN OBO +ship
« Reply #14 on: Tue, 17 May 2016, 06:28:05 »
Quote from: pr0ximity on Tue, 17 May 2016, 05:26:09
Again, those keys don't look broken. They have quite a bit of wobble naturally.

You can get them snug on the stems.   Enough to make them straight.  That the seller hasn't is either ignorance of the issue, sheer laziness, or there's an underlying issue like a broken mount on the cap or a bent stem.

I doubt it's anything, but it's simple enough to straighten up for a sale photo.
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