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Title: best place to get costar stab stems from?
Post by: skuko on Tue, 11 February 2014, 03:53:30

so far, my only reliable source for Slovakia (where i live) is keyboardco, but it seems rather expensive (2,40 quid for 4 stems, plus shipping). any other suggestions guys?

i need them for my filco boards, when i get additional keysets (i.e. DSA macross - i'd probably superglue the stems in, since i don't plan to use anything but filco/costar boards - after trying out the Novatouch, that is  :p)

Title: Re: best place to get costar stab stems from?
Post by: yasuo on Tue, 11 February 2014, 04:25:23

WASDkeyboard,QWERKeys

Title: Re: best place to get costar stab stems from?
Post by: skuko on Tue, 11 February 2014, 05:32:31

wow, that's ridiculous :D

WASDkeyboards have 2 stab stems for $0.50 and keyboardco have 4 stems for £2.00. DERP!

Title: Re: best place to get costar stab stems from?
Post by: skuko on Tue, 11 February 2014, 06:33:42

i will cross-post this, because it's too funny not to...mods please delete, if inappropriate...

keyboardco.com

let's say i wanted a spare set of stems of a full ANSI TKL set i'm buying for my filco. that's 10 stems, so i need to buy 3 sets = 12 stems.

19.18 EUR (total price of £15.96 with cheapest possible postal service converted  to EUR via google.com)

- same amount of stems from WASDkeyboards.com

6.99 EUR (total price of $9.55 with cheapest possible postal service converted  to EUR via google.com)

can you see the disproportion here?

i have no idea where the stems are being delivered from in case of WASD, but i'd expect keyboardco to be at least a bit more competitive - price wise.

i would surely rather order from within EU due to the faster delivery, but at this price difference, i'm inclined to wait 2 weeks more (or dunno how much longer the delivery from US takes)

edit:

for a better perspective:

for ~20 EUR i can get 40 (FORTY !!!) units of stems from WASD (that's 80 stems, LOL)

that's just....i'm at a loss here, really :D

btw. i took part in about 5 caps group buys, so it's not over exaggeration, i will need about 60 stems if i don't want to switch them all the time. so yeah....

Title: Re: best place to get costar stab stems from?
Post by: dorkvader on Tue, 11 February 2014, 07:48:11

Quote from: skuko on Tue, 11 February 2014, 06:33:42

i have no idea where the stems are being delivered from in case of WASD, but i'd expect keyboardco to be at least a bit more competitive - price wise.

WASD is based in california, USA

they are awesome.