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Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: Peter on Thu, 04 August 2011, 10:45:57: This thing needs to sell for a ridiculous amount of money :
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(So, that's why I'm posting it here, despite the fact that my doing so makes the 'Great Find'-part more than questionable .)
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: 7bit on Thu, 04 August 2011, 10:53:14: Quote from: Peter;392880
This thing needs to sell for a ridiculous amount of money :
http://cgi.ebay.de/CHERRY-G80-2100-Tastatur-24-frei-prgr-bareFunktionstast-/270789704903?pt=M%C3%A4use_Tastaturen&hash=item3f0c52fcc7
(So, that's why I'm posting it here, despite the fact that my doing so makes the 'Great Find'-part more than questionable .)

The keyboard looks quite yellowed and the opened box had been put on a dirty floor!

Also, the keyboard is not in a plastic bag, so the NIB status is lost!
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: Peter on Thu, 04 August 2011, 11:13:53: Yeah right ..
Like you can tell from the crappy (as usual on german Ebay) pictures .
Are you the number one early bidder or the number two early bidder ?
Raise your bid to 200 Eurotrash or just forget about it mate :)
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: TexasFlood on Thu, 04 August 2011, 11:41:21: Looks like the box let an awful lot light though, :wink:
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: Half-Saint on Thu, 04 August 2011, 11:59:29: No, really, it's yellowed and probably doesn't even work. Don't bother bidding on it ;)
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: xbb on Thu, 04 August 2011, 14:59:05: No point linking something to start a bid war.
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: kbdfr on Fri, 05 August 2011, 00:28:36: From the very day it was listed I've just been wondering when it finds its way here. And I'm really amused about the... questionable comments of all you guys who just want to get it cheap. I bet you won't.

Crappy picture, I do agree. But look at it exactly and you will see there is not, as it would seem at first sight, just a zone around the function keys which has not suffered yellowing. In fact there is no yellowing, but a crappy dark photo, and that lighter zone is just the original, light grey flip cardboard thing placed around the function keys, as can be seen here (not a photo of the keyboard on offer, but it shows exactly what I mean):

(http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/g80-2100/front_v.jpg)

And one can see the coiled cable still has its plastic sleeve.
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: Half-Saint on Fri, 05 August 2011, 02:31:38: I for one, was being sarcastic.
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: 7bit on Fri, 05 August 2011, 02:49:52: Quote from: kbdfr;393368

Show Image
(http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/g80-2100/front_v.jpg)

This is not a photo of the offered keyboard, and plastic bags are cheap!

Here is a photo of a really new G80-2100:
(http://deskthority.net/w/images/thumb/c/c3/G80-2100HDF_001.jpg/640px-G80-2100HDF_001.jpg)

See the difference?

This auction is a fake!

I've purchased a 'NIB' keyboard once and it was bloody yellowed!

WARNING: Don't bid on it unless you want to burn money.

Spend your funds on Round 4 stuff!

ps: Also, it as got super stiff keys. You will suffer from RSI very soon if you get it.
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: kbdfr on Fri, 05 August 2011, 03:41:56: Quote from: 7bit;393412
(...)

This auction is a fake!

I've purchased a 'NIB' keyboard once and it was bloody yellowed!

WARNING: Don't bid on it unless you want to burn money.

Spend your funds on Round 4 stuff!

ps: Also, it as got super stiff keys. You will suffer from RSI very soon if you get it.

I'm glad to see you are not interested at all :biggrin:

The seller has all my sympathy because his pictures are even worse than mine:
http://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=868&p=15436&#p15436 (http://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=868&p=15436&#p15436)
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: Half-Saint on Sat, 06 August 2011, 15:23:18: Well, that went real good - I won.
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: 7bit on Sat, 06 August 2011, 17:54:48: Quote from: half-saint;394283
well, that went real good - i won.

185,60 eur
omg!
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: Half-Saint on Sat, 06 August 2011, 20:35:07: what's that supposed to mean?
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: kbdfr on Sun, 07 August 2011, 00:26:09: Quote from: 7bit;394336
185,60 eur
omg!

Fair enough.
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: Half-Saint on Sun, 07 August 2011, 03:11:16: Well I figure, if a used non-yellowed one with Cherrry key is worth about 100eur, a NIB one has got to be worth at least twice as much.

...or am I wrong?
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: 7bit on Mon, 08 August 2011, 03:52:28: Quote from: Half-Saint;394535
Well I figure, if a used non-yellowed one with Cherrry key is worth about 100eur, a NIB one has got to be worth at least twice as much.

...or am I wrong?

I've paid for mine around 65 EUR and it came barely used.

So you paid around 120 EUR for the box.
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: kbdfr on Mon, 08 August 2011, 04:57:08: I once paid 5 Euro for a fully functional tiptel 195 phone which at that time did not sell for under 100 Euro on eBay.
That does not mean that all others buyers paid too much, but that I did a real bargain (and had a lot of luck).

Here I would say you paid quite a low price for a barely used G80-2100 (French version if I remember right) and Half-Saint paid a fair price for a completely unused NIB German one. German keyboards for sure are more sought after than French ones.

I would have expected this one to sell for more than 200 Euro. And I'm sure it would have if the seller had shown decent pictures and explicitely offered international shipping.

By the way, how much would you be ready to pay for the original box of a French G80-2100? :biggrin1:
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: 7bit on Mon, 08 August 2011, 08:37:45: Quote from: kbdfr;395023
I once paid 5 Euro for a fully functional tiptel 195 phone which at that time did not sell for under 100 Euro on eBay.
That does not mean that all others buyers paid too much, but that I did a real bargain (and had a lot of luck).

Here I would say you paid quite a low price for a barely used G80-2100 (French version if I remember right) and Half-Saint paid a fair price for a completely unused NIB German one. German keyboards for sure are more sought after than French ones.

I would have expected this one to sell for more than 200 Euro. And I'm sure it would have if the seller had shown decent pictures and explicitely offered international shipping.

By the way, how much would you be ready to pay for the original box of a French G80-2100? :biggrin1:

No, the others paid too much and you paid the right price!

The French version is more seldom, so it is more valuable and because I've got some G802550 NIB I already know how these boxes look like and don't need one for the G80-2100, except you own the original box for my G80-2100HDF.

Nevertheless, if they would produce this G80-2100 today, it would be more expensive and had only lasered key caps, so the price is OK.
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: kbdfr on Mon, 08 August 2011, 09:18:59: Quote from: kbdfr;395023
(...)
By the way, how much would you be ready to pay for the original box of a French G80-2100? :biggrin1:

Quote from: 7bit;395077
(...) I already know how these boxes look like and don't need one for the G80-2100, except you own the original box for my G80-2100HDF.

It's not the original box for your G80-2100HDF, its the original box for my (used) G80-2100HDF. Anyway, I wouldn't for sure offer the original box of my NIB G80-2100HDF :biggrin1:

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Nevertheless, if they would produce this G80-2100 today, it would be more expensive and had only lasered key caps, so the price is OK.

That's even worse. They produce the G81-8308, which has lasered keys and MY switches :puke:
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: woody on Mon, 08 August 2011, 09:35:51: And where can I buy NIB G80-2100HFU?
Hehe.
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: kbdfr on Mon, 08 August 2011, 09:56:16: Quote from: woody;395100
And where can I buy NIB G80-2100HFU?
Hehe.

Sorry, I can't help.
I only have a NIB G80-2100HDU.
Hehe.
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: woody on Mon, 08 August 2011, 11:14:18: Quote from: kbdfr;395113
Sorry, I can't help.
I only have a NIB G80-2100HDU.
Hehe.
You win - what 'D' stands for? 'H' I remember was doubleshots, 'U' for US layout. The 'F' I don't have the foggiest.

It's just a scribbled note on a piece of paper on my desk - things I might find interesting. So 2100HFU is written there.

Mhm. Is 'F' / 'D' switch type?
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: kbdfr on Mon, 08 August 2011, 11:58:54: Quote from: woody;395158
You win - what 'D' stands for? 'H' I remember was doubleshots, 'U' for US layout. The 'F' I don't have the foggiest.

It's just a scribbled note on a piece of paper on my desk - things I might find interesting. So 2100HFU is written there.

Mhm. Is 'F' / 'D' switch type?

For the first letter, as you wrote, H means doubleshots.
The signification of the middle letter is quite unresolved.
And the last letter indicates the country: U for US, D for Germany, F for France.

http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Dating+Cherry+keyboards#Suffix (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Dating+Cherry+keyboards#Suffix)
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: Half-Saint on Mon, 08 August 2011, 12:28:25: Quote from: 7bit;395016
I've paid for mine around 65 EUR and it came barely used.

So you paid around 120 EUR for the box.

If you recall, I recently paid 60EUR for a G80-2100HDD that looks almost unused. It feels nice to type on, there is no yellowing, all the keycaps are present and the cable is not stretched. The problem with on-line auctions is that you can never be 100% sure what you're getting.

In my book, knowing that something is NIB is worth more than just the box because I sure didn't buy it just for the box. You can get used OVP items for less. Of course I would love to get a NIB G80-2100 for 60EUR ;)
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: woody on Tue, 09 August 2011, 09:16:36: Quote from: kbdfr;395176
The signification of the middle letter is quite unresolved.

http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Dating+Cherry+keyboards#Suffix (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Dating+Cherry+keyboards#Suffix)
'F' should be MX blue. 'D' - a mystery.
So, which MX is your HDU?

And could somebody with HFx chime in?
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: kbdfr on Tue, 09 August 2011, 10:23:38: Quote from: woody;395790
'F' should be MX blue. 'D' - a mystery.
So, which MX is your HDU?

And could somebody with HFx chime in?

My G80-2100HDU has MX blacks.

I've never heard of a G80-2100 labeled HFx or having blue switches (except of course if modded). The only ones I know (and I've seen a lot of them) are HAx or HDx and all have MX blacks.
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: woody on Tue, 09 August 2011, 10:41:20: Weird. Thanks for the info - my 2100 lust is cooled off with only MX blacks.
Title: NIB !! Cherry-keyboard with CHERRY-cap !!!!
Post by: Half-Saint on Fri, 19 August 2011, 03:58:21: Got it yesterday and it is definitely new. Absolutely no yellowing or a speck of dust. Smells like new he he. I also got the original floppy and the manual on two A4 paper sheets.