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Title: Das Keyboard 1 on eBay | Incorrectly listed as Mechanical Key Switches
Post by: getf on Fri, 05 May 2017, 09:06:34

There are 2 bids already, this is not a mechanical keyboard, although it sure looks like one.

• FYI: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Das_Keyboard#Das_Keyboard
• Metadot first used the tagline "The Keyboard that clicks." for the successor to this keyboard, the Das Keyboard II. Long and the short: its a rubber dome board, buyer beware.
• Listing: http://www.ebay.com/itm/272656577482?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Title: Re: Das Keyboard 1 on eBay | Incorrectly listed as Mechanical Key Switches
Post by: Techno Trousers on Fri, 05 May 2017, 09:45:26

Good looking out! Maybe we need a "Cautionary Finds" forum.

Title: Re: Das Keyboard 1 on eBay | Incorrectly listed as Mechanical Key Switches
Post by: JP on Fri, 05 May 2017, 13:25:18

Quote from: Techno Trousers on Fri, 05 May 2017, 09:45:26

Good looking out! Maybe we need a "Cautionary Finds" forum.

I second that motion.  :thumb:

Title: Re: Das Keyboard 1 on eBay | Incorrectly listed as Mechanical Key Switches
Post by: Touch_It on Fri, 05 May 2017, 16:35:39

Thanks for the heads up.  I've been passively looking for a Das Keybaord 2.  sooo sexy.

Title: Re: Das Keyboard 1 on eBay | Incorrectly listed as Mechanical Key Switches
Post by: ander on Fri, 05 May 2017, 16:43:34

Wow, I wouldn't have known. So I take it that any DK that doesn't have a number in its name is a DK I, and therefore RD?

BTW, OP, when I saw your Subject line, I thought you meant someone had listed an MK on eBay and used a title implying that only switches were for sale—i.e. that it was a hidden good deal. Instead, how about something like this?:

Warning: Das Keyboard I on eBay (non-mechanical)