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Title: EBAY: IBM Keyboard DECEPTION!
Post by: the_buff on Wed, 29 June 2011, 14:08:14

Bah...very cool looking ergonomic keyboard but in fact not clicky as advertised.  He was just trying to get "keyboard enthusiasts" attention.  (Read: suckers, who pay a lot for weird keyboards.)  

The joy is in the clickety-clack, how dare he attempt to decieve me?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110708729238 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110708729238)

If you thought this was a keyboard called IBM Deception...indeed that would be awesome, but nay, tis not.

Title: EBAY: IBM Keyboard DECEPTION!
Post by: the_buff on Wed, 29 June 2011, 14:25:18

Sir, the sting of your meme is like the slap from a wet noodle.  Your wife might appreciate that kind of disappointment, but I do not.

Title: EBAY: IBM Keyboard DECEPTION!
Post by: keyboardlover on Wed, 29 June 2011, 14:32:03

Acfrazier DOES remind me of a military general.

Title: EBAY: IBM Keyboard DECEPTION!
Post by: Tennobanzai on Wed, 29 June 2011, 15:30:03

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This is not a clicky , I just put that in my heading so it would come up on a search that collectors look at . It is an ultra rare urgonomic keyboard for the IBM pc by ErgoLogic Enterprise Inc.  

His description itself is just wrong...

Title: EBAY: IBM Keyboard DECEPTION!
Post by: wanabe on Wed, 29 June 2011, 15:48:25

he was upfront about it...caveat emptor

Title: EBAY: IBM Keyboard DECEPTION!
Post by: Tennobanzai on Wed, 29 June 2011, 15:52:15

Quote from: wanabe;370207

he was upfront about it...caveat emptor

same goes for those people that sell PS3 boxes, iPhone boxes, etc

Title: EBAY: IBM Keyboard DECEPTION!
Post by: REVENGE on Wed, 29 June 2011, 17:27:59

Quote from: the_buff;370112

Bah...very cool looking ergonomic keyboard but in fact not clicky as advertised.  He was just trying to get "keyboard enthusiasts" attention.  (Read: suckers, who pay a lot for weird keyboards.)  

The joy is in the clickety-clack, how dare he attempt to decieve me?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110708729238 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110708729238)

If you thought this was a keyboard called IBM Deception...indeed that would be awesome, but nay, tis not.

Deception or not, not really a great find.

Title: EBAY: IBM Keyboard DECEPTION!
Post by: the_buff on Wed, 29 June 2011, 17:55:39

Quote from: REVENGE;370257

Deception or not, not really a great find.

ouch

Rough crowd

I thought it was an interesting approach to ergonomic keyboarding.  Doesn't that alone make it worthy of "great find" status?  

I'm not of the Buckling-Spring clan, but is that why there are so many haters?  You guys don't appreciate IBM in the title?

Title: EBAY: IBM Keyboard DECEPTION!
Post by: redpill on Wed, 29 June 2011, 18:21:45

It's not IBM, it's not Clicky.  Yet he puts both in the title.  With the way eBay policy works it will probably get pulled down because you're not supposed to deliberately mislead people like that.

Title: EBAY: IBM Keyboard DECEPTION!
Post by: demik on Thu, 30 June 2011, 00:21:33

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Your wife might appreciate that kind of disappointment, but I do not.

ouch

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Post by: hobojelloz on Thu, 30 June 2011, 12:07:44

Ok, it had to be someone here, fess up, who bought it??

Title: EBAY: IBM Keyboard DECEPTION!
Post by: Astounding on Thu, 30 June 2011, 17:19:46

Quote from: ripster;370774

I've been lurking the last week to make sure it wasn't me.

You IRC channel dudes are trolling harder than anybody.

 
Why not come in as ripster?

Title: EBAY: IBM Keyboard DECEPTION!
Post by: Mikelittoris on Thu, 30 June 2011, 17:43:44

Good god Ripster, change you avatar, this doesn't look right!

Title: EBAY: IBM Keyboard DECEPTION!
Post by: dreamingftw on Thu, 30 June 2011, 23:09:23

I feel bad for the person who actually bid on the thing...