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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: aznsilvrboy on Mon, 16 April 2012, 02:21:52
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I e-mailed Diatec/Filco regarding this and they said:
we are under the negotiation which will be concluded soon
with a certain firm in your country
Good news for Canadians?
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Good news for anyone. The problem with mechanical keyboards is there is no competition so you get companies like thekeyboardco and elitekeyboards milking it.
For example HHKB Type-S is ¥29,800 that is $369.64, EK sells it for $490! They manage to commit this daylight robbery because they make deals with suppliers to make sure they are the only ones who can sell. Good ol' capitalism.
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Omg, can't wait they come here :canada:
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If a Canadian Filco distributor opens up I may finally get my first Cherry Board, just hope their prices are reasonable and not its-actually-cheaper-to-pay-a-company-to-buy-it-for-you-in-japan prices.
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It's about time!
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Finally gonna get me a ****ing F****.
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Exactly! Not a US price + $40 CAD price :pray2:
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Who is this firm they mentioned?
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it's going to be NCIX. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!
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I am happy for you Canadians! :high5:
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it's going to be NCIX. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!
That's my guess too.
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AWESOME
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Ditto. About time you guys stopped getting bent over.
It's a double-whammy really. Naturally you guys have a larger market place, so companies carry a much wider selection (even comparing chain stores of the same name on both sides of the border). The real kicker is being held hostage by the shipping companies. Most places in the US won't ship USPS to Canada, too many lost packages they say.
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it's going to be NCIX. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!
i was gonna post this earlier today, but i held back because i was going to also post some slander about how it's going to get 'unboxed'.
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There was some discussion going on in the NCIX forums (http://forums.ncix.com/forums/topic.php?id=1993734) but the last update was in 2009... Maybe, just maybe...
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How do you guys know it's going to be NCIX?
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It could be memory express.
Or it could be a distributor like Ingram, Synnex or Techdata. That would be cool. Then I could carry them in my biz.
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I think everyone is just guessing NCIX since it's the largest and most likely. Otherwise I'd have to say it's either Amazon (They're already selling them in the US it probably isn't too hard to bring it to Canada) or a new company.
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Oh great, just got my first mech keyboard(cm storm QFR) and I'm already looking for another one for work. I was just gonna try the new leos when they came out, but now a filco distributor, here in Canada...with me? Decisions, decisions....
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I work at a small Canadian computer store. I wonder what's required in order to set up a deal with Diatec. Anyone done it before?
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NCIX would be great! Then I could order it from their sister company DirectCanada at a reduced price and get free shipping, lol.
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So I can finally get a Filco huh? Probably won't be buying unless it's a special edition one with a different coloured case.
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I think everyone is just guessing NCIX since it's the largest and most likely. Otherwise I'd have to say it's either Amazon (They're already selling them in the US it probably isn't too hard to bring it to Canada) or a new company.
The one on amazon.com is sold by keyboardco of UK.
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The one on amazon.com is sold by keyboardco of UK.
I also would highly doubt it's going to be via amazon.ca... it's not anywhere near as competitive in Canada as it is in the US.
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They've also got a small fraction of the variety of products as the US site does.
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yeah I spoke with them a while ago and was told the same thing. My guess is that its NCIX. Amazon.ca sucks and NCIX is probably the most popular store here.
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Wheeeen?
(http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/264/241/9e9.gif)
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I do hope it's NCIX, I have a $15 gift card for them right now too.
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I hope it's NCIX. I'm not a CAN (thankfully) but, I would like to see Linus review/unbox them lol
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Well when I said it was going to be NCIX I kind of had "some" backings to it.
If you see it this way, considering that NCIX recently started selling das keyboards, I'm going to assume that they're(NCIX) is expanding their mechanical keyboard catalog. Well this is from what I've analyzed. :>
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Just in case anybody was wondering what soon™ means for Canadian filcos.
We deeply apologize for the inaccessibility of our products in Canada.
At this moment, we are not able to describe a name of this firm yet,
however we will soon establish our official distributor in your country.
We assume you would be able to start purchasing from July or August
after concluding all the rest discussions and the transportation transactions/time are fixed.
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July or August huh?
Wait my birthday is in late July...
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I hope they choose to stock a board with reds!
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Damn rollback.
http://www.ncix.com/search/?categoryid=0&q=filco
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Damn rollback.
http://www.ncix.com/search/?categoryid=0&q=filco
<3 <3 <3
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I'm so happy right now. Diablo 3 and now this.
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good thing the prices aren't retarded.
sad they don't have white boards though =(
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Pre-ordered a TKL with blues... gonna swap the case later anyway, but yeah wish they had white.
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Harrison doesn't have to drive across the border to get filcos at his US mailbox anymore. Hooray! :P When I was last here, you were still working on that modded tenkeyless filco. You ever finish it?
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Wow nice, now I got an alternative to the keyboardco. Going to order another Filco :)
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OMG OMG OMG i just exploded in my pants. <333 going to grab two tenkeyless blue and reds!
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Looks like they have stock now: http://ncix.ca/search/?categoryid=0&q=FILCO
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They have stock and I believe for the current sale they are giving free ground shipping as well.
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Hoping they have stock in their Toronto warehouse soon so I can go pick mine up.
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Went to the NCIX store today and picked up my Filco. I noticed they also stocked some other mech boards like Das, and the gaming branded ones. Nice to have a physical store location to go and buy keyboards now :D
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Wish I had a physical location to get boards. :(
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Ooooh they are finally in stock @ the Ontario warehouse!
So tempted now!
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Got my red at the Ontario warehouse yesterday :bounce:
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so, linus posted his first unboxing, happened to do the camo tenkeyless w/ blacks
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