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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: E TwentyNine on Fri, 11 March 2016, 12:18:46
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The seller is asking WAY TOO MUCH at $779 BIN OBO.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-IBM-KEYBOARD-CLICKY-for-OLD-RARE-3279-Computer-PC-Terminal-1977-CANADA-/351674955991
But it may be worth putting on your watch list for when he comes down or sending him a more reasonable offer...
Same seller has a second one for $579 BIN OBO
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-IBM-KEYBOARD-for-3279-2C-Display-PC-Terminal-Computer-RARE-OLD-1977-/301892672459
As noted below, the seller listed the same keyboard three times with different bidding strategies. Intentional? Who knows. The auction one had been taken down while the BIN ones remained. Now one BIN shows ended and the cheaper listing shows sold.
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One of the nicer beamspring models, it's a lot for sure but I can see people paying that.
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Bummer city. My current dream board but such price...
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Damn this thing is mint. Nice find!
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****, I'd love to get my hands on that. But that money.... xD
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$200 cheaper: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-IBM-KEYBOARD-for-3279-2C-Display-PC-Terminal-Computer-RARE-OLD-1977-/301892672459
maybe make an offer?
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$200 cheaper: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-IBM-KEYBOARD-for-3279-2C-Display-PC-Terminal-Computer-RARE-OLD-1977-/301892672459
maybe make an offer?
Thanks, don't know how I missed that, going to add it to title and first post.
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Something very fishy going on here.
All three of these listings use the same pictures?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/351676485339 – auction starting at $1 + $20 shipping
http://www.ebay.com/itm/351674955991 – $1000 OBO shipped
http://www.ebay.com/itm/301892672459 – $580 OBO + $20 shipping
Anyway, nice keyboard:
(http://i.imgur.com/aUs540R.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/5VTE3Z6.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/n9ITmbs.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/2nylQRP.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/i8kYGnr.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/XtyUi6o.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/9kORNDG.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/KKi6FMW.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/7wnZnkR.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/uDa5CKk.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/lJE5mK6.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/KMTbRpA.jpg)
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Something very fishy going on here.
All three of these listings use the same pictures?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/351676485339 – auction starting at $1 + $20 shipping
http://www.ebay.com/itm/351674955991 – $1000 OBO shipped
http://www.ebay.com/itm/301892672459 – $580 OBO + $20 shipping
Ebay always offers to "make it easy for you" and populate the slots with suggestions of its own.
I was appalled when I discovered this years ago buying CDs. That number below the bar code can be the same for the "same" album, even if for a horrible old crap one from the 1980s and a newly remastered one from years later with bonus tracks.
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I don’t quite understand what you are saying, fohat.
From the listings:
VINTAGE IBM KEYBOARD
Comes as shown in the picture. Please see 12 pictures for more details. I am including 12 pictures, please see them all.
Overall, it is in good condition.
Sale is final. No returns, no refunds.
This doesn’t say anything like, “The keyboard being listed is not the one in the pictures”, or whatever.
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Somebody here get this?
See my edit in OP for details on the multiple listings.
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Someone bought it for $579 plus shipping!
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More than I would pay for it, but at least it wouldn't induce RSI with the height of most beamspring boards.
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Out of my range but that's the best condition I've ever seen a 3279 in.
I just want to see what a beam spring feels like. I'm sure the buyer wouldn't mind letting my try it and sending it back to him/her. :D
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but at least it wouldn't induce RSI with the height of most beamspring boards.
There’s nothing inherently dangerous about tall keyboards; low, flat keyboards can be just as bad or worse if misused. Staying comfortable depends on adjusting chair, desk, and typing style to adapt.
Generations of professional secretaries typed on typewriters which were as tall or taller, all day every day, but with good typing form (yay real training) they could avoid injury.
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Someone bought it for $579 plus shipping!
No they didn't. They bought it for an undisclosed best offer.
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Someone bought it for $579 plus shipping!
No they didn't. They bought it for an undisclosed best offer.
EDIT - My fault, you're correct sir.
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I think the lowest offer the buyer was taking was $400. I lowballed and that was the price I got back ^__^
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$400 doesn’t seem too outrageous for such a pretty keyboard.
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He offered it to me last night for $445. I was debating whether I wanted to settle for this version which doesn't have a numberpad (I think another version of the 32** series does), and whoosh! It was gone this morning. Congrats to its lucky buyer. Now we find out if it's so with that seller mentioning it was his last beamspring.
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$400 is a lot considering I would type on it a few times to see how beam springs feel then never use it again because the layout is not practical at all. It would sit in the closet or on a shelf (after posting pictures on GH of course).
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[...] never use it again because the layout is not practical at all. It would sit in the closet [...]
The layout is no better or worse than the standard modern ANSI/ISO keyboard. Maybe marginally worse on the bottom row, since the spacebar is so silly big.
I would probably move the right hand letter keys over by one column, like:
(http://i.imgur.com/jp0M2om.png) (http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/gists/a271ea86f478170829fe)
And it would certainly take some work figuring out how the logical layout should work, with some functions moved on to extra layers. Definitely not insurmountable though.