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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 27 March 2014, 08:11:05
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How cool would it be if companies would let us test out their keyboards without having to buy them?
It would be even cooler if they offered to pay shipping, am I right?
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Especially for Topre boards.
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If they were smart we would be flooded with prototype boards to test before they go into production. I'm not sure Topre need much help though :) if they would just continue making keycaps and numpads I would be pretty happy :p
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Not gonna happen - imagine the mess some people would make of keyboards and the financial loss companies would have shipping keyboards all over the place and then cleaning them when they come back, or just throwing them out.
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Unfortunately that is probably the reality.
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Now if the companies would donate maybe four or five keyboards of a new model to the site, say via the Keepers or something, the community could organize a tour around that. Then have a contest of some sort to decide who would get to keep the keyboards when the tours completed. That would be something.
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Now if the companies would donate maybe four or five keyboards of a new model to the site, say via the Keepers or something, the community could organize a tour around that. Then have a contest of some sort to decide who would get to keep the keyboards when the tours completed. That would be something.
BUT the keepers would just hoard them :P :D
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Now if the companies would donate maybe four or five keyboards of a new model to the site, say via the Keepers or something, the community could organize a tour around that. Then have a contest of some sort to decide who would get to keep the keyboards when the tours completed. That would be something.
BUT the keepers would just hoard them :P :D
They would keep them?
So THAT's why they are called the Keepers :))
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Now if the companies would donate maybe four or five keyboards of a new model to the site, say via the Keepers or something, the community could organize a tour around that. Then have a contest of some sort to decide who would get to keep the keyboards when the tours completed. That would be something.
BUT the keepers would just hoard them :P :D
They would keep them?
So THAT's why they are called the Keepers :))
ǝsuǝs ɥɔnɯ os sǝʞɐɯ ʇɐɥʇ
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Especially for Topre boards.
Agreed. I never would've bought one if I'd tried it first.
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As long as it is not CONUS only.
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As long as it is not CONUS only.
Which it would be - can't see US manufacturers spending money shipping keyboard back and forth to Australia (or India or many European countries ...).
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As long as it is not CONUS only.
Which it would be - can't see US manufacturers spending money shipping keyboard back and forth to Australia (or India or many European countries ...).
We have Keepers in the UK and Deutschland, you know. :)
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As long as it is not CONUS only.
Which it would be - can't see US manufacturers spending money shipping keyboard back and forth to Australia (or India or many European countries ...).
We have Keepers in the UK and Deutschland, you know. :)
That's easy - one way shipping :p
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As long as it is not CONUS only.
Which it would be - can't see US manufacturers spending money shipping keyboard back and forth to Australia (or India or many European countries ...).
Let's see those US manufacturers... Topre, Leopold, Cherry, Maltron, Filco... Well, there's Unicomp, but they haven't released anything meaningful for ages. What's left? Maybe WASD, Kinesis and Matias, but the boards aren't manufactured in America AFAIK, and Matias is Canadian.
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It does sound fun, I would love to test out keyboards and give my thoughts about them to the manufacturers. :)
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Not gonna happen - imagine the mess some people would make of keyboards and the financial loss companies would have shipping keyboards all over the place and then cleaning them when they come back, or just throwing them out.
Unfortunatley I agree. Logistics and cost(Do the manufacturer of the board see an ROI in this?) is the reason this will not happen.
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Now if the companies would donate maybe four or five keyboards of a new model to the site, say via the Keepers or something, the community could organize a tour around that. Then have a contest of some sort to decide who would get to keep the keyboards when the tours completed. That would be something.
I was trying to get Signature Plastics to do that with their color rings, but they wouldn't. We might be able to convince Cherry to do it with their MX 3.0 board...or maybe not with the review thread getting nuked.