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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: Halverson on Tue, 15 August 2017, 13:06:10
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Couple rare clacks on eBay (not mine)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/282611346554
http://www.ebay.com/itm/282611348970
Remember, bid early, bid high.
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Am I missing something regarding clacks? I can appreciate the artistry in some of them but couldn't I just create a mold or whatever, make like 5, say they are rare and profit? I mean one of these is already higher than Many Model M keyboards.
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Am I missing something regarding clacks? I can appreciate the artistry in some of them but couldn't I just create a mold or whatever, make like 5, say they are rare and profit? I mean one of these is already higher than Many Model M keyboards.
You don't want to make fakes
If you create your own design and it is popular enough, go crazy
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Those are mega-rare and will undoubtedly sell for many hundreds.
Think how few choices there are for ancient IBM iron compared to common Cherry gear.
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Am I missing something regarding clacks? I can appreciate the artistry in some of them but couldn't I just create a mold or whatever, make like 5, say they are rare and profit? I mean one of these is already higher than Many Model M keyboards.
that's what k3kc does.. and no one buys his stuff for more than retail. and they have 0 respect in the artisan community. its about owning art that's created by the artist. if you don't get that then its not for you.
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Thanks for the explanations. That helps to clarify things. I don't think clacks are for me though. I rarely see them on BS boards.
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If only I was rich.
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There are enough bizarre keycaps produced by IBM over the years that this seems redundant.
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Those are mega-rare and will undoubtedly sell for many hundreds.
Think how few choices there are for ancient IBM iron compared to common Cherry gear.
Maybe so, but IBM iron gear is ultra conservative and still highly valued with it's original key-caps. Having some juvenile coloured key-cap on that type of keyboard is both vile and extremely vacuous.
Best leave these type of key-caps for children to furnish their cherry clones with.
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The great thing about auctions like these is, if you didn't know these little keys were worth, like, $150, you'd look at them and think, "Okay, right, some little plastic novelty keys... What, five bucks or so?" But this way, you get to see how some herding effect occurred that induced a bunch of people to agree they were actually worth a ridiculous amount of dough. Otherwise you might never have known, because it certainly wouldn't be obvious.
And if you do end up winning them, you can put them on your keyboards, look at them, and think, "Hey, wow! I have some of those little skull-face keys on my boards, just like other people who have them. And since those people are so cool, I must be cool too. Indeed---although I think I'm doing something really cool and original, I'm actually mindlessly copying an entirely random thing some other people did."
Well, you probably wouldn't have that last thought... Otherwise you wouldn't have spent all that money on the little plastic skull doodads, right? But you might have it later, if the herding effect ever wore off. I'm just saying.