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Re: Desko winkeyless board, no trackpoint, $61 shipped
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 26 March 2015, 18:49:18 »
What switches does this use? DT wiki doesn't list much on Desko, it seems.
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Re: Desko winkeyless board, no trackpoint, $61 shipped
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 26 March 2015, 18:59:01 »
Probably Cherry MY.
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Re: Desko winkeyless board, no trackpoint, $61 shipped
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 26 March 2015, 19:08:58 »
any idea if this will work with your TA GB?  looking for a winkeyless board to go with that, but i've read a lot of the MY's have off-center stems.

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Re: Desko winkeyless board, no trackpoint, $61 shipped
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 26 March 2015, 19:12:58 »
any idea if this will work with your TA GB?  looking for a winkeyless board to go with that, but i've read a lot of the MY's have off-center stems.

That's only on winkey G81 boards. It'll work, but it's a pretty heinous board and switches... would buy this for the caps, not for the board.
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Re: Desko winkeyless board, no trackpoint, $61 shipped
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 26 March 2015, 20:16:52 »
I guess he finally wanted to get rid of those.  That's the lowest I've seen him go and that's one of the most complete ones I've seen from him.

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Re: Desko winkeyless board, no trackpoint, $61 shipped
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 26 March 2015, 20:25:01 »
I guess he finally wanted to get rid of those.  That's the lowest I've seen him go and that's one of the most complete ones I've seen from him.
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Re: Desko winkeyless board, no trackpoint, $61 shipped
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 26 March 2015, 22:09:09 »
according to Fohat who has done local pickup before, Rawko is a big company (seems to be some kind of electronic waste recycler from fohat's description) and very sophisticated. They know how to price things for the maximum they can get. Don't expect bargains and be aware that buying at asking price is paying too much.

I bought from them once and they (literally) sent me garbage.

It was the dirtiest, most worn 'working' keyboard I had ever bought in my life. IIRC it was part of a lot of 35 and they'd used photos of the best of 35.

This piece of trash was 'as described'. It actually powered up. I even tested the keys using a newspaper to insulate my hands from the astonishingly filthy keys. As I depressed the keys I could see feathers, insect parts, hairs, cotton, pieces of band aids, cardboard chunks, newspaper bits, etc. How do you have such a dirty keyboard that works is beyond me.

I could say more but I'll leave it at that.

Had a nasty fight with them. I'll never do business with Rawko's again. This was one time when I think the seller deserved to get paypal complaint filed, but I never filed, because it was working after all and they'd never said in their original listing that 'the keyboard you are looking at is in a far superior condition to the one you will get'.
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Re: Desko winkeyless board, no trackpoint, $61 shipped
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 27 March 2015, 07:02:59 »
according to Fohat who has done local pickup before, Rawko is a big company (seems to be some kind of electronic waste recycler from fohat's description) and very sophisticated. They know how to price things for the maximum they can get. Don't expect bargains and be aware that buying at asking price is paying too much.

I bought from them once and they (literally) sent me garbage.

It was the dirtiest, most worn 'working' keyboard I had ever bought in my life. IIRC it was part of a lot of 35 and they'd used photos of the best of 35.

This piece of trash was 'as described'. It actually powered up. I even tested the keys using a newspaper to insulate my hands from the astonishingly filthy keys. As I depressed the keys I could see feathers, insect parts, hairs, cotton, pieces of band aids, cardboard chunks, newspaper bits, etc. How do you have such a dirty keyboard that works is beyond me.

I could say more but I'll leave it at that.

Had a nasty fight with them. I'll never do business with Rawko's again. This was one time when I think the seller deserved to get paypal complaint filed, but I never filed, because it was working after all and they'd never said in their original listing that 'the keyboard you are looking at is in a far superior condition to the one you will get'.
They will accept Best Offer. hwood grabbed one for 35, and I grabbed one for 40. Mine wasn't in any nice condition, but you don't expect that. The one I got was nicer than the picture though, and all I had to do was clean the keycaps.

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Re: Desko winkeyless board, no trackpoint, $61 shipped
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 27 March 2015, 09:43:45 »
according to Fohat who has done local pickup before, Rawko is a big company (seems to be some kind of electronic waste recycler from fohat's description) and very sophisticated. They know how to price things for the maximum they can get. Don't expect bargains and be aware that buying at asking price is paying too much.

I bought from them once and they (literally) sent me garbage.

It was the dirtiest, most worn 'working' keyboard I had ever bought in my life. IIRC it was part of a lot of 35 and they'd used photos of the best of 35.

This piece of trash was 'as described'. It actually powered up. I even tested the keys using a newspaper to insulate my hands from the astonishingly filthy keys. As I depressed the keys I could see feathers, insect parts, hairs, cotton, pieces of band aids, cardboard chunks, newspaper bits, etc. How do you have such a dirty keyboard that works is beyond me.

I could say more but I'll leave it at that.

Had a nasty fight with them. I'll never do business with Rawko's again. This was one time when I think the seller deserved to get paypal complaint filed, but I never filed, because it was working after all and they'd never said in their original listing that 'the keyboard you are looking at is in a far superior condition to the one you will get'.

I wasn't very impressed with them either. I did manage to get them to sell me boards with partial key cap sets for a decent price. All of the boards I got from them were extremely filthy, and the caps required more than one dental tab soaking. I got lucky with a couple of the boards having very nice keycaps, but you wouldn't have been able to tell by looking at them because they were so dirty. They also wouldn't let me into the warehouse to look around, which I can understand. It just seems like if you are trying to sell hardware you would let people in to look around.

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Re: Desko winkeyless board, no trackpoint, $61 shipped
« Reply #10 on: Sat, 28 March 2015, 01:09:13 »
These have doubleshots, yah? Are the secondary legends pad printed?

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Re: Desko winkeyless board, no trackpoint, $61 shipped
« Reply #11 on: Sat, 28 March 2015, 01:11:41 »
These have doubleshots, yah? Are the secondary legends pad printed?

Yes, but the keys with secondary legends are actually dyesubbed PBT.
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