In General, the stuff that Elite Keyboards typically sells, Topre/Filco/Kul arn't considered Hip/Kewl anymore...
Too much competition from small brands that drop these $33 mechanicals which are fundamentally just as good.
There's NOTHING in a topre functionally, or qualitywise, which makes it worth $250.
Remember iphones cost ~$200-300 to build
Keyboards are very LOW TECH sort of thing from the getgo..
No, it's just that the "gaming peripherals" business is more lucrative than marketing and selling just to keyboarding enthusiasts. They, Corsair and Coolermaster, don't JUST sell keyboards. Once these kewl kids grow up desire more function over flash, the classic styling of Filco and the like will be more appealing. I get a good laugh at looking at these Techtubers who are pushing 40, shilling for Gamer brands to sell to children, making sure they have their lamer RGB monstrosities front and center during all their videos and somehow never having anything but those keyboards from the 2-3 brands they shill for. So lame.
But, about Elite Keyboards, around a year or two ago, they had an active ebay presence and looked like they were selling much of their old stock of refurbs and returns. I lucked out, I suppose and got one of the last new KUL es-87's with MX Clears and another with MX Browns. Great boards.
Too bad the Techtuber shills never give these enthusiast brands any exposure. Maybe then you'd see growing demand from "kewl kids". Got to suck off the global corporations for their allowance I guess.
