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Title: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: berserkfan on Mon, 21 April 2014, 22:57:09: http://www.ebay.com/itm/WASD-V1-Mechanical-Keyboard-/390825200111?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item5afeff49ef

He bought a keyboard from WASD and had it customized like that? OMG. And did he swipe the legend-ed keycaps from an innocent Filco who is now missing plenty of keycaps?

That is some poor taste in colors, patterns, etc.

BTW at $70 shipped starting bid, I do not consider this a good deal. Anyway I already posted two good deals today and these should go fast.

As it isn't my keyboard, I'm not putting this in Unicorn Vomit boards either.

If you don't mind being mean, buy and file complaint on this guy if anything is unsatisfactory. I very strongly suspect it's not 'used 3 months' as he claims. WASD v1 is an old model and the casing doesn't look in such great shape. Real age of the keyboard is probably over 13 months, but the glare makes it hard to determine the extent of keycap shine.
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: Lu_e on Mon, 21 April 2014, 22:58:33: Ya its ugly but you sound like you have a vendetta against him or something.
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: yuktsi on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:02:01: oh god, my eyes are bleeding
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: berserkfan on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:21:44: Quote from: Lu_e on Mon, 21 April 2014, 22:58:33
Ya its ugly but you sound like you have a vendetta against him or something.

I just don't like the bad taste, and the highly suspect description.
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: Zeal on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:23:55: Quote from: yuktsi on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:02:01
oh god, my eyes are bleeding

^^^

Can you imagine what the guys @ WASD were thinking while putting on the keycaps? :-X
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: Pacifist on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:29:37: Quote from: Zeal on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:23:55
Quote from: yuktsi on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:02:01
oh god, my eyes are bleeding

^^^

Can you imagine what the guys @ WASD were thinking while putting on the keycaps? :-X

Just realized somebodys job is to put on keycaps. Each time different. Each time not wanting to screw it up even though the colors are so....WHY
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: noisyturtle on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:39:35: Quote from: Pacifist on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:29:37
Quote from: Zeal on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:23:55
Quote from: yuktsi on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:02:01
oh god, my eyes are bleeding

^^^

Can you imagine what the guys @ WASD were thinking while putting on the keycaps? :-X

Just realized somebodys job is to put on keycaps. Each time different. Each time not wanting to screw it up even though the colors are so....WHY

and he's just some rich guy who passive aggressively orders keyboards from WASD because he has a long standing grudge against that specific WASD employee.

#conspiracy #richpeoplerevenge
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: RabRhee on Tue, 22 April 2014, 00:06:32: I don't think it is some rich guy, I think its just what can happen when you put a keyboard designing program in one end and a human in the other. Some may fail. Although the black caps do seem like an upgrade on his original design.. (UP?? - grade??)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wasdkeyboards/page4/
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: Zeal on Tue, 22 April 2014, 00:24:11: Quote from: RabRhee on Tue, 22 April 2014, 00:06:32
I don't think it is some rich guy, I think its just what can happen when you put a keyboard designing program in one end and a human in the other. Some may fail. Although the black caps do seem like an upgrade on his original design.. (UP?? - grade??)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wasdkeyboards/page4/

I just went through the whole album and didn't find it.. Some of the customs designs were also somewhat questionable...
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: fknraiden on Tue, 22 April 2014, 00:31:40: I'm not seeing how this guy has too much money... What? Like 4-5 sets of caps?
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: berserkfan on Tue, 22 April 2014, 02:10:16: Quote from: Zeal on Tue, 22 April 2014, 00:24:11
Quote from: RabRhee on Tue, 22 April 2014, 00:06:32
I don't think it is some rich guy, I think its just what can happen when you put a keyboard designing program in one end and a human in the other. Some may fail. Although the black caps do seem like an upgrade on his original design.. (UP?? - grade??)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wasdkeyboards/page4/

I just went through the whole album and didn't find it.. Some of the customs designs were also somewhat questionable...

Zeal, remember I said this seller is sleazy. I remember reading that WASD deletes the oldest stuff in his album after a very, very long time. Apart from the V1 having being discontinued for quite a long time, I suspect this '3 month old' keyboard is way, way old.

That said, Custom Designer + kid = :eek:
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: sth on Tue, 22 April 2014, 02:17:40: Quote from: Zeal on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:23:55
Quote from: yuktsi on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:02:01
oh god, my eyes are bleeding

^^^

Can you imagine what the guys @ WASD were thinking while putting on the keycaps? :-X

"haha this ******* is actually giving us money for this, i can't believe i get paid to do this"
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: epzy on Tue, 22 April 2014, 02:20:57: Quote from: Zeal on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:23:55
Quote from: yuktsi on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:02:01
oh god, my eyes are bleeding

^^^

Can you imagine what the guys @ WASD were thinking while putting on the keycaps? :-X

LOL, I didn't even think about that!
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: Beca on Tue, 22 April 2014, 02:53:10: Quote from: Zeal on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:23:55
Quote from: yuktsi on Mon, 21 April 2014, 23:02:01
oh god, my eyes are bleeding

^^^

Can you imagine what the guys @ WASD were thinking while putting on the keycaps? :-X
I would love that job.
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: Oobly on Tue, 22 April 2014, 03:32:04: Looks like he ordered an SP crap bag and filled up the board with caps from that.

Poor taste, sure, but it says nothing of his financial status. Or necessarily his personal taste, it doesn't say he actually used it like that.

On another note, MOST of the cap sets in those WASD images are.... horrible..
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: berserkfan on Tue, 22 April 2014, 10:29:42: Quote from: Oobly on Tue, 22 April 2014, 03:32:04
Looks like he ordered an SP crap bag and filled up the board with caps from that.

Poor taste, sure, but it says nothing of his financial status. Or necessarily his personal taste, it doesn't say he actually used it like that.

On another note, MOST of the cap sets in those WASD images are.... horrible..

nah, it's a WASD keyboard, not a Cherry dyesub board.

he won't get much benefit to plucking off the WASD keycaps and keeping them.

that said, I am still wondering when the hell Weyman Kwong is going to offer PBT keycaps. Didn't he say like a year ago he was going to do so eventually? Once he starts offering PBT, his ABS business is gonna tank, so he has to sell off his ABS stocks first I guess.
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: Coreda on Tue, 22 April 2014, 10:34:38: Why does it imply he has too much money?
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: samwisekoi on Tue, 22 April 2014, 11:49:15: I have not seen his latest UV process, but the previous WASD white-on-black were quite good. Very white, good contrast and resolution.

I say this to allay fears that there is a poor Filco with some keycaps missing.

Also, I would be very surprised if WASD did NOT have v1 keyboards left in stock. This could be "3 months old" for some legit value of the term. Could be.

Also, maybe this looks great if you were color-blind. Or just blind. ;)

Last time I talked to Weyman he couldn't get the results he wanted imprinting on PBT, so he was considering offering stock keyboards with OEM PBT keycaps. (This was when I was trying to get him to shoot the Elvish legends on blank PBT keycaps I was trying to get from Imsto.)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That keyboard might look restrained next to a windowed G1.Sniper build with colored lights and coolant.

Don't hate on the guy because you don't understand his choices. There are people in this world who don't understand why we would buy even ONE mechanical keyboard, let alone multiple keyboards plus multiple keycap sets.

- Ron | samwisekoi

p.s. I think the keycap color scheme blows chunks. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. :D
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: berserkfan on Tue, 22 April 2014, 12:10:40: SamWiseKoi, can I ask you about this PBT imprinting thing? See, I’ve always thought it’s basically the same. The keycaps are made already, they are put on some kinda tray, the laser zaps them and that’s laser etched for you.

UV process involves more complication. Sure, it’s nicer looking, but I think every businessman needs to go step by step. If he makes money selling custom PBT lasered, he could do that for a while and experiment on his UV process in the meantime. Remember there are such things as market cycles and product cycles. Offering everything in one go doesn’t work because your market can’t buy everything in one go.

But you’re absolutely right. We shouldn’t hate on this guy. I’m sure he’s just your average touch typist and doesn’t look at his keyboard anyway.
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: Findecanor on Tue, 22 April 2014, 17:21:07: The price is now at $59. I don't think that the seller intended to use this scheme, but this scheme is mostly because he had these keycaps left over.
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: mickyman on Tue, 22 April 2014, 18:31:39: I keep wondering why he kept the black caps, with the letters, instead of getting black ones along with the white caps too.
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: Txduck on Wed, 23 April 2014, 00:09:05: Yikes!! :eek: LOL
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: exitfire401 on Wed, 23 April 2014, 00:15:52: That's alright...check out this poor unfortunate code =( poor thing didn't know what hit it.

(https://i.imgur.com/deZdpdU.jpg)
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: TheSoulhunter on Wed, 23 April 2014, 00:53:11: Nah, people with too much money don't sell their used keyboards on ebay, they donate em to Africa...

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Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: noisyturtle on Wed, 23 April 2014, 00:55:22: Quote from: exitfire401 on Wed, 23 April 2014, 00:15:52
That's alright...check out this poor unfortunate code =( poor thing didn't know what hit it.

Show Image
(https://i.imgur.com/deZdpdU.jpg)

that's not bad at all. i'm a sucker for unicorn vomit boards though
:llama:
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: Pacifist on Wed, 23 April 2014, 01:08:53: Quote from: TheSoulhunter on Wed, 23 April 2014, 00:53:11
Nah, people with too much money don't sell their used keyboards on ebay, they donate em to Africa...

(Attachment Link) (Attachment Link)

Who knew africa was the goldmine of vintage boards?
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: Zeal on Wed, 23 April 2014, 03:30:30: Quote from: TheSoulhunter on Wed, 23 April 2014, 00:53:11
Nah, people with too much money don't sell their used keyboards on ebay, they donate em to Africa...

(Attachment Link) (Attachment Link)

I see some IBM boards in there. Bound to be an SSK there, right? :p
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 23 April 2014, 04:51:22: Quote from: Zeal on Wed, 23 April 2014, 03:30:30
Quote from: TheSoulhunter on Wed, 23 April 2014, 00:53:11
Nah, people with too much money don't sell their used keyboards on ebay, they donate em to Africa...

(Attachment Link) (Attachment Link)

I see some IBM boards in there. Bound to be an SSK there, right? :p

With that many boards, there could be industrial SSKs too!
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: cherpalla on Wed, 23 April 2014, 07:04:00: Quote from: fknraiden on Tue, 22 April 2014, 00:31:40
I'm not seeing how this guy has too much money... What? Like 4-5 sets of caps?

You don't need to buy the whole set, you can customize it per key from WASD.
Title: Re: This makes me want to vomit (another guy with too much money and poor taste)
Post by: hwood34 on Wed, 23 April 2014, 07:43:05: Quote from: rowdy on Wed, 23 April 2014, 04:51:22
Quote from: Zeal on Wed, 23 April 2014, 03:30:30
Quote from: TheSoulhunter on Wed, 23 April 2014, 00:53:11
Nah, people with too much money don't sell their used keyboards on ebay, they donate em to Africa...

(Attachment Link) (Attachment Link)

I see some IBM boards in there. Bound to be an SSK there, right? :p

With that many boards, there could be industrial SSKs too!
Keycon Africa?