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Title: MX keycaps $17 shipped
Post by: hemflit on Sun, 13 November 2011, 18:51:31

I'm not sure if this is a "great find", nor if it's old news, but anyway:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/330620926977

Title: MX keycaps $17 shipped
Post by: slueth on Sun, 13 November 2011, 19:02:30

I think someone here said that they were crappy or some kind of warning.

Title: MX keycaps $17 shipped
Post by: reaper on Sun, 13 November 2011, 20:43:26

PBT > ABS and yeah, I read somewhere here that they were crappy.

Title: MX keycaps $17 shipped
Post by: bloodygood on Sun, 13 November 2011, 22:22:50

If I remember right, I believe that the keycaps had like brown lettering or something strange like that.

Title: MX keycaps $17 shipped
Post by: Rafen on Sun, 13 November 2011, 23:01:07

Yeah and the red coloring was different on all of the keys, none of them were the same shade.

Title: MX keycaps $17 shipped
Post by: Gerk on Thu, 17 November 2011, 16:25:36

The red coloring wasn't different for me, but they weren't white legends -- they were very poorly done laser.  Hardly any contrast and hard to read them.  The seller says they are now selling the white legend ones, but they are NOT K-Force keycaps (which are what seems to be shown in the pictures).  I'd personally avoid them ...

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?22773-Warning-eBay-seller-qdigit_mart-selling-keycaps-that-are-not-what-they-appear-to-be&p=428688&viewfull=1#post428688

Title: MX keycaps $17 shipped
Post by: suprsmo on Thu, 17 November 2011, 16:58:00

Having seen these in another thread and not this one, had already gone ahead and ordered 1 set of blues and 1 set of reds.

Got shipped out yest, and the seller sent a pic along with the confirmation.

Got them more for fun and try em out and because the flat mate wanted to get some red key caps.

Title: MX keycaps $17 shipped
Post by: Gerk on Thu, 17 November 2011, 17:01:49

Let us know what you think of them when they arrive.  I got pics when they sent them out too, but you couldn't actually see the legends.  In that pic you can see the legends a bit on the blue ones ... they are still not as pictured (you can see that they are white-ish but they still seem to have poor contrast and they are not the same font as they picture and not bold) ... but they are cheap and if they don't suck as bad as the ones I got they are fun for the $$.

Title: MX keycaps $17 shipped
Post by: suprsmo on Mon, 21 November 2011, 18:47:15

Will do.

I have a funny feeling I probably, should have just ordered a coloured set from Qtan, or even WASD and get dem Orings too..

Oh well..

Keycaps leaving HK sometime today, according to tracking info.