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Title: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: enrique.aliaga on Wed, 29 August 2018, 15:04:48
Hi guys and girls,

I would like to build some Ergo Clears, and have read that the Korean springs are the best. What is a good source for them?

Those I know of are:

Any others?
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: HouseofSuffering on Wed, 29 August 2018, 15:28:15
Kinda hard not to....but, please don't support SPRiT if you can.

Guy ripped a bunch of people off (me included).

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=50580.0

 :thumb:

Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: Sup on Wed, 29 August 2018, 15:43:25
Kinda hard not to....but, please don't support SPRiT if you can.

Guy ripped a bunch of people off (me included).

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=50580.0

 :thumb:

yeah Sprit is a scammer he got banned from the Korean keyboard community as well. But there are not much sources for Korean springs these days sometimes you have to go to the dude.
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: romevi on Wed, 29 August 2018, 15:46:35
I'm 99.99% positive the ones MK.com sells are SPRiT's.
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: LightningXI on Wed, 29 August 2018, 16:01:13
I'm 99.99% positive the ones MK.com sells are SPRiT's.

Yes

But there are not much sources for Korean springs these days sometimes you have to go to the dude.

There's other Koreans like 힝힝홍힝 (Hing-hing-hong-hing) who do spring GBs, but the problem is that those GBs were Korea-only  :'(

Due to postage costs perhaps? Or increased logistics workload.

fun fact: HHHH also designed the Salamander TKL.
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: mdlt97 on Wed, 29 August 2018, 17:18:02
id just buy sprit springs tbh

i have bought many from him and probably will buy many more
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: Auslander on Wed, 29 August 2018, 18:26:39
Other than Korea only GB springs, the only options are Sprit, Chinese made ones found on Aliexpress, and GON.
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: itskuroi on Wed, 29 August 2018, 18:43:12
There's always catweewee springs.

https://www.switchmod.net/product/springs
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 29 August 2018, 20:40:18
were the gold springs actually gold plated or was it just brass plate
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: Visionaire on Wed, 29 August 2018, 21:34:31
Buy 'em straight from Sprit

https://spritdesign.wixsite.com/sprit/products
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: WCO1 on Mon, 03 September 2018, 03:45:03
Buy 'em straight from Sprit

https://spritdesign.wixsite.com/sprit/products

he sells his stuff on ebay to.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/sprit_designs

Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: DJSnotBoogie on Thu, 06 September 2018, 10:48:27
Yea the reupatation seems to have stuck with him, but it seems that was a long time ago and is no longer an ongoing issue.  I hear that they are the best springs.
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: HouseofSuffering on Thu, 06 September 2018, 11:27:11
Buy 'em straight from Sprit

https://spritdesign.wixsite.com/sprit/products

Buy 'em straight from Sprit

https://spritdesign.wixsite.com/sprit/products

he sells his stuff on ebay to.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/sprit_designs

If you are going to buy Sprit springs, at least be smart enough to NOT buy them directly from him. There are many Legit vendors that have his spring in stock. Why take the unnecessary risk dealing with a known thief and scammer?

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=50580.0

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=55888.0

just go to the last page of his group buys and see for yourself.








Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: HouseofSuffering on Thu, 06 September 2018, 11:37:45
Yea the reupatation seems to have stuck with him, but it seems that was a long time ago and is no longer an ongoing issue.  I hear that they are the best springs.

Is that you Sprit??? You sure do seem to do a lot of sticking up for Sprit?

No longer an issue? He has been MIA and left people missing hundreds of dollars and nothing to show for it for YEARS!! Just because people gave up on trying to get a hold of him, doesn't mean he is all of a sudden a legit seller.

He hasn't posted since January, but his last sign in was yesterday. He knows damn well he still owes a bunch of people products and or refunds. He is just doing what scammers do.

Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: romevi on Thu, 06 September 2018, 14:09:28
He never did me wrong, but then again I ordered only when he would pop in and become suddenly active, and only springs and stabs.

They are my favorite springs (typing on them now!). His work > his reputation, but reputation goes a long way. I too would suggest getting them only from vendors who have them in stock, as there's no guarantee you'd get them by ordering from him.
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: DJSnotBoogie on Thu, 06 September 2018, 14:15:01
Yea the reupatation seems to have stuck with him, but it seems that was a long time ago and is no longer an ongoing issue.  I hear that they are the best springs.

Is that you Sprit??? You sure do seem to do a lot of sticking up for Sprit?

No longer an issue? He has been MIA and left people missing hundreds of dollars and nothing to show for it for YEARS!! Just because people gave up on trying to get a hold of him, doesn't mean he is all of a sudden a legit seller.

He hasn't posted since January, but his last sign in was yesterday. He knows damn well he still owes a bunch of people products and or refunds. He is just doing what scammers do.

No, I just haven’t had issues and haven’t known anyone with issues. You do you, man. 
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: Visionaire on Thu, 06 September 2018, 18:13:12
Yea the reupatation seems to have stuck with him, but it seems that was a long time ago and is no longer an ongoing issue.  I hear that they are the best springs.

Is that you Sprit??? You sure do seem to do a lot of sticking up for Sprit?

No longer an issue? He has been MIA and left people missing hundreds of dollars and nothing to show for it for YEARS!! Just because people gave up on trying to get a hold of him, doesn't mean he is all of a sudden a legit seller.

He hasn't posted since January, but his last sign in was yesterday. He knows damn well he still owes a bunch of people products and or refunds. He is just doing what scammers do.

Had no idea there'd ever been an issue. Bought springs directly from him just within the last couple of months. Shipped quickly and even threw in some samples of other weights and added a couple of heavy ones in case I wanted for space bar. Was a pleasant exchange.
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: onefivenine on Tue, 23 October 2018, 04:16:15
I've bought springs from his ebay listings about 3 times now. Fast shipping a prompt communication. Always sends me an email to verify that the mailing address is correct and throws in a few extras springs of my choice to test out.
https://www.ebay.com/usr/sprit_designs
Title: Re: What is the best place to buy Gold-plated Korean springs from in 2018?
Post by: DJSnotBoogie on Tue, 23 October 2018, 07:33:35
Mechanical keyboards.com sells sprit springs.