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Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: savage on Fri, 27 November 2009, 22:14:22: Buyers on eBay never cease to amaze and stun me with their stupidity.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250534254599&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

So who's going to message the lucky winner and break the news?
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: ricercar on Fri, 27 November 2009, 22:48:47: Heh. I bid on that one. Not that high.
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: majestouch on Sat, 28 November 2009, 11:26:21: Those sound like XMs in the video, and the board comes with a red FILCO and Esc key just like the B-stock with XMs. I hope someone didn't just pay $78 for a board I sell for $50...
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: watduzhkstand4 on Sat, 28 November 2009, 12:55:36: I find it funny that people are willing to save a couple of bucks. Normal computer users will just get a keyboard for $10 from like newegg or something. But for the people that knows the brand Filco, HHKB, Topre, etc..., I would expect them to know where to buy them as well.
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: savage on Sat, 28 November 2009, 13:45:46: Quote from: majestouch;136925
Those sound like XMs in the video, and the board comes with a red FILCO and Esc key just like the B-stock with XMs. I hope someone didn't just pay $78 for a board I sell for $50...

Here is the second last picture from the auction:

(http://liography.com/nr/ebay/ebay%202009-06/filco%20keyboard/DSC_9951.jpg)

It says XM right on the box. Comments?
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: watduzhkstand4 on Sat, 28 November 2009, 13:57:19: I just checked elitekeyboards for the "blem" that is sold for $50 and the model number for that one is FKBN87Z/EB-Y. If it is the "blem" is is actually labeled on the box with the extra Y in the end of the model number?
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: AndrewZorn on Sat, 28 November 2009, 14:03:30: why, thinking of ordering about 5, and putting them on ebay?
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: majestouch on Sat, 28 November 2009, 14:52:03: Diatec is still using the boxes that say XM on them for all Zeros. However, the box with the XM B-Stock boards comes with a sticker/label on it that says EB-Y, but this can easily be pealed off.
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: majestouch on Sat, 28 November 2009, 14:52:50: Quote from: ripster;136964
Somebody got on the Fukka express.
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Good find:-P
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 28 November 2009, 16:04:59: Quote from: savage;136958
Here is the second last picture from the auction:

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(http://liography.com/nr/ebay/ebay%202009-06/filco%20keyboard/DSC_9951.jpg)

It says XM right on the box. Comments?

I've always found the word "tenkeyless" kind of irritating. It makes no sense. From my experience, number pads tend to come with 17 keys.
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: Rajagra on Sat, 28 November 2009, 17:21:05: Quote from: microsoft windows;137011
I've always found the word "tenkeyless" kind of irritating. It makes no sense. From my experience, number pads tend to come with 17 keys.

I felt the same when I first saw it, but it has now seeped into my vocabulary. I think the word is here to stay.
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: Rajagra on Sat, 28 November 2009, 18:49:18: Tenkeyless does unfortunately sound a bit like Tenko-less.
"Tenko" was a TV series about women prisoners in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in WWII. Tenko means roll-call, apparently.
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: PRISONER 24601 on Sun, 29 November 2009, 01:02:17: it's been called 'ten key' forever... Like when you were in school, you learned "ten key", not "seventeen key"...
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: chimera15 on Sun, 29 November 2009, 01:42:58: Quote from: ripster;137070
I'm glad to report that my son sez kids still do stoopid calculator tricks in his geometry class.

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Yeah, but now there's the internet that tells them every possible word they can spell with it. No fun. lol

http://www.langmaker.com/calculatorwords.htm (http://www.langmaker.com/calculatorwords.htm)

Maybe you should spell Lego boobies. lol
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Post by: Rajagra on Sun, 29 November 2009, 07:21:45: Quote from: chimera15;137074
Maybe you should spell Lego boobies. lol

What kind of sick perv associates Lego with boobies?
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Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 29 November 2009, 09:58:19: Quote from: kishy;137039
Agreed.

And it's 18 for me (terminal keyboard ftw).

And it's 26 for me (Focus FK-9000)
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: chimera15 on Mon, 30 November 2009, 20:11:38: Quote from: Rajagra;137082
What kind of sick perv associates Lego with boobies?

lol

Plastic people have to come from somewhere. roflol
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Mon, 30 November 2009, 21:18:04: Quote from: Rajagra;137082
What kind of sick perv associates Lego with boobies?

Quote from: webwit

She's rather flat chested.

This is a sick world filled with sick people...
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Post by: itlnstln on Tue, 01 December 2009, 07:53:28: Quote from: Computer-Lab in Basement;137653
This is a sick world filled with sick people...

Says the man with the Microsoft Bob avatar.
Title: Gotta love people willing to save $6 over a new one....
Post by: itlnstln on Tue, 01 December 2009, 07:54:15: Quote from: itlnstln;137721
Says the man with the Microsoft Bob avatar.

Says the man with the Tripod avatar.

Beat you to it.