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Offline J888www

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RealForce 87U 55g
« on: Tue, 01 June 2010, 16:04:12 »
Has Ekitekeyboards stopped shipping to the rest of the World ? The last listing of one of these KBDS was considered to be fishy, this 87U seems to be authentic, please confirm.
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Offline sixty

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« Reply #1 on: Tue, 01 June 2010, 17:01:31 »
images (including the banners that read "eBay") are hosted on the actual elitekeyboards website. So it should be real. Auction as is is a shame, I just ordered the same realforce like 3 days ago at full price. Maybe could have saved some here. Oh well.

Offline J888www

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« Reply #2 on: Tue, 01 June 2010, 17:19:46 »
Just read the details at the bottom of the listing. The "Other item info" of "Post to: United States" was a little misleading.

Seems Elitekeyboards are using eBay to promote more business, there's also a FILCO Tenkeyless with Cherry MX Brown listing.

Unfortunately, I have to refrain from bidding and stick to my original decision to purchase only 2 more keyboards, when you get up in the morning and trip over a keyboard, it becomes just too much.
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Offline clickclack

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« Reply #3 on: Wed, 02 June 2010, 02:42:28 »
Quote from: J888www;188760

... when you get up in the morning and trip over a keyboard, it becomes just too much.


no kidding, but all that has done is improve my jumping skills =)
(sadly not a joke or even a slight exaggeration)

I noticed that particular (realforce) Elitekeyboards listing yesterday and I thought it was legit and a great idea for a used keyboard. He also mentioned in a recent post that he might do that.
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Offline Rajagra

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« Reply #4 on: Wed, 02 June 2010, 03:12:45 »
Haha if we can persuade them to introduce keyboard hurdling as an Olympic event, we could form a world-beating relay team.

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« Reply #5 on: Wed, 02 June 2010, 03:25:59 »
Sounds good to me!

I figure with all the dancing around I do to avoid falling on my keyboards my toes will soon be dexterous enough to type with! I am already tempted =P
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Offline Rajagra

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« Reply #6 on: Wed, 02 June 2010, 04:19:02 »
That's the spirit!


Offline bitflipper

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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 03 June 2010, 19:13:41 »
Quote from: J888www;188760
when you get up in the morning and trip over a keyboard, it becomes just too much.


My new rule: buy a new keyboard, get rid of 2 keyboards.

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Offline majestouch

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« Reply #9 on: Thu, 03 June 2010, 23:36:27 »

Offline didjamatic

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« Reply #10 on: Sat, 05 June 2010, 22:25:59 »
Hey now, I was talking about collectibles and said CAN be that small of a percentage of mint original, not that they ALWAYS were.  We were talking about a 30 year old AT Model F and the difference in value of used good condition vs. Mint sealed is a pretty big difference.  This is a little different, but I do see your perspective.

Whoever got that 55g got a smoking deal.

Glad to see Magestouch selling on ebay... still waiting for a White 87u. :)
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Offline 002

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« Reply #11 on: Sun, 06 June 2010, 04:22:39 »
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... still waiting for a White 87u. :)


After I shelled out for one of these on leopold, he better not list one.

Offline didjamatic

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« Reply #12 on: Sun, 06 June 2010, 06:11:15 »
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After I shelled out for one of these on leopold, he better not list one.


Are you saying you have a White 87u for sale/trade? :)
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Offline 002

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« Reply #13 on: Sun, 06 June 2010, 07:08:46 »
After the hoops I had to jump through to get the thing I'd be more inclined to auction off my left stone before I sell the Realforce.

Offline 002

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« Reply #14 on: Sun, 06 June 2010, 09:34:24 »
That's still the case.

I used http://www.buyfromkorea.kr/ which ended up being expensive - he accepts paypal.

If anyone plans to buy from there in future, the webmaster from leopold recommends using gmarket:

"If you are difficult to make payment, I recommend you to buy Gmarket which is subsidiary company of Ebay in Korea.
Web is as below;
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http://www.gmarket.co.kr/index_eng.asp"


I had already committed myself to buyfromkorea by the time I got his reply though.

Offline didjamatic

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« Reply #15 on: Sun, 06 June 2010, 10:24:39 »
Hmmm that's tempting, I have missed having a topre to use in rotation since I sold the three I had.  (103u white/87u black variable/87u black 55g)

It's really too bad more foreign sites don't accept paypal.  If they did they would make a lot more money.
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