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Title: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: fohat.digs on Thu, 20 June 2013, 17:26:46
They seem to have a big pile of them to move.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=271225181010&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=271225181010&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123)
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: missalaire on Thu, 20 June 2013, 17:29:42
Any chance these are vintage mx blacks?
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: Dianoda on Thu, 20 June 2013, 17:35:00
Keycaps are lasered/pad print, correct?

edit: caps are lasered according to deskthority wiki: http://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_article_numbers (http://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_article_numbers)
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: JPG on Thu, 20 June 2013, 17:48:00
35$ shipping to Canada... grrrr!
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: Sniping on Thu, 20 June 2013, 19:19:19
35$ shipping to Canada... grrrr!

$18 CONUS shipping for me </3
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 20 June 2013, 19:38:53
$50.75 shipping to Australia.

Consider yourselves lucky, guys.

And that is the cheapest shipping.
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: fohat.digs on Thu, 20 June 2013, 19:57:20
Any chance these are vintage mx blacks?

With the USB plug they are sure to be fairly new.

I have 2 of the G80-11900s and they both have PS2 connectors with good dyesub caps, but this sale item is obviously newer.

I have hated every other trackpad I have ever used, but these are sublime.
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: missalaire on Thu, 20 June 2013, 19:58:44
Any chance these are vintage mx blacks?

With the USB plug they are sure to be fairly new.

I have 2 of the G80-11900s and they both have PS2 connectors with good dyesub caps, but this sale item is obviously newer.

I have hated every other trackpad I have ever used, but these are sublime.

Ah damn, I just want vintage MX black switches lol.
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Thu, 20 June 2013, 20:57:29
You won't see vintage switches in anything with winkeys ever. Vintage switch era was 1984-1991 or thereabouts. Still not a bad price if you are after a decent board for the office or something, or some modern black switches for projects.

An 11900 with dyesubs? I have never heard of such a thing.
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: fohat.digs on Thu, 20 June 2013, 21:20:58
An 11900 with dyesubs? I have never heard of such a thing.

Let me get out the acetone and magnifying glass.

Maybe I was mistaken. I have 1 made in Germany and 1 from the Czech Republic.


Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: bazemk1979 on Thu, 20 June 2013, 21:30:35
anyone wants to ask the seller to remove keycap so we can see what switches are on them? black,blues,browns?
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: Dianoda on Thu, 20 June 2013, 22:09:30
anyone wants to ask the seller to remove keycap so we can see what switches are on them? black,blues,browns?

Per the model number these are mx blacks.
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: dorkvader on Thu, 20 June 2013, 23:42:03
An 11900 with dyesubs? I have never heard of such a thing.

Let me get out the acetone and magnifying glass.

Maybe I was mistaken. I have 1 made in Germany and 1 from the Czech Republic.



Maybe they are lasered? who knows?


Also, since these are USB: they are likely to have jumpers, right? Is there a chance for diodes?
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: fohat.digs on Fri, 21 June 2013, 07:26:08
An 11900 with dyesubs? I have never heard of such a thing.

You are right, of course.

I am no Cherry expert. My keys are PBT, but do appear to be lasered.

Was additional dye or paint added to darken the legends, or did the process itself cause the color change where the laser hit?

Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 21 June 2013, 08:47:54
Cherry lasered generally have laser direct burn, they seldom do infill but there are some that exist. 11900 are all with jumper only 2KRO. But, they are one of most solid feeling G80 with the casebody there is not as much flex as others like 3000.
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: Tym on Fri, 21 June 2013, 08:51:38
$50.75 shipping to Australia.

Consider yourselves lucky, guys.

And that is the cheapest shipping.
The cheapest to UK is 

US $52.20
   
:(

The most expensive is US $201.71 :O
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: fohat.digs on Fri, 21 June 2013, 08:57:21
The slow-boat-cheap option for international shipping just doesn't exist any more.

International shipping makes a lot of larger items nearly out of the question.

If anybody can tell me how to ship a keyboard internationally from the US for under $50, I would love to hear about it.
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 21 June 2013, 09:20:48
The magic number is keeping it under 4lbs. So that rules out some keyboards right away. But, for most G80 this applies and it cost around $35 to most international with first class parcel.
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: dorkvader on Fri, 21 June 2013, 12:50:29
Cherry lasered generally have laser direct burn, they seldom do infill but there are some that exist. 11900 are all with jumper only 2KRO. But, they are one of most solid feeling G80 with the casebody there is not as much flex as others like 3000.
I thought all cherry's lasered POM is infilled, but do you mean that some of cherry's lasered PBT is infilled as well? Interesting.
Title: Re: good price on Cherry black G80-11900
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 21 June 2013, 12:54:38
Yes. I had some PBT infilled. They were crap, most of infill had fallen out.