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Offline armenws

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Model M space savers at unrealistically high prices
« on: Thu, 17 June 2010, 19:15:09 »
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Offline vhaarr

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« Reply #1 on: Thu, 17 June 2010, 19:23:09 »
It's not so unrealistic if you've been following the price trends of Model M Space Savers lately.

Last NIB one from comptekw2k went for over $220 I think? And he sells a new one every week.
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Offline armenws

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« Reply #2 on: Thu, 17 June 2010, 19:30:33 »
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It's not so unrealistic if you've been following the price trends of Model M Space Savers lately.

Last NIB one from comptekw2k went for over $220 I think? And he sells a new one every week.


fair enough. Just seemed steep to me. I guess it's a price trend.
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Offline chimera15

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« Reply #3 on: Thu, 17 June 2010, 19:30:38 »
Oh oops, cancel that.

Pretty amazing to see the canadian dollar exchange rate is almost 1 to 1.
« Last Edit: Thu, 17 June 2010, 19:37:34 by chimera15 »
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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 17 June 2010, 22:43:30 »
Not really...it's been hovering around that point for ages now (CAD exchange, that is).
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Offline aegrotatio

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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 17 June 2010, 22:48:16 »
I just discovered I have three Model M space savers, not two as I thought.  I bought them new in 2000 or 2001 but the boxes are long gone.

Oh, and I noticed the amazing $28 shipping fee.  WUT?

I have a question: are all of these keyboard single-piece keycaps or did they make them in two-piece?
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Offline kishy

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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 17 June 2010, 23:04:50 »
$28 is shipping to Canada - it's ebay.ca

That's likely exact cost as well, not marked up by seller for box or anything.
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Offline aegrotatio

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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 17 June 2010, 23:20:32 »
I gotcha, I understand.
There's lots of good keyboard treasure in the Great White North.  I even bought some.  Heheh.  Thanks!!
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Offline aegrotatio

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« Reply #8 on: Fri, 18 June 2010, 10:22:33 »
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Those were $100 boxes!

The minis are like M's, some have two piece keys, some do not.


Oh.  If I sold them then the buyer would be pissed.  I took one apart for cleaning and noticed that I had replaced several of the keycaps with the wrong types many years ago.  Oops.  Of course I have the originals but it was a weird finding.
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« Reply #9 on: Fri, 18 June 2010, 16:10:20 »
$200 for a Model M and it doesn't even have a trackball.
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« Reply #10 on: Fri, 18 June 2010, 16:37:46 »
M$, could you just, for once, STFU with your comments?

You don't like the prices, fine, go read another thread.
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« Reply #11 on: Fri, 18 June 2010, 19:01:25 »
Quote from: chimera15;194072
Oh oops, cancel that.

Pretty amazing to see the canadian dollar exchange rate is almost 1 to 1.


Canadian dollar used to be worth more until an idiot named "Pierre Trudeau" came along.
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« Reply #12 on: Fri, 18 June 2010, 22:45:01 »
Is this a in a fair price for everyone? I think it's cheap because is "without numpad". :P

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310227905287&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Mine.
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« Reply #13 on: Fri, 18 June 2010, 22:53:56 »
WOW, that was a score!  Congrats, I would have snagged it in under 5 seconds.
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Offline chimera15

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« Reply #14 on: Fri, 18 June 2010, 23:30:00 »
« Last Edit: Fri, 18 June 2010, 23:33:29 by chimera15 »
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white fake simplified:   1x white smk-85, 1x Steampunk compact board hack
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« Reply #15 on: Sat, 19 June 2010, 11:00:30 »
Quote from: EverythingIBM;194465
idiot named "EverythingIBM"


There, fixed that for you.
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Offline armenws

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« Reply #16 on: Wed, 23 June 2010, 01:56:19 »
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M$, could you just, for once, STFU with your comments?

You don't like the prices, fine, go read another thread.

I thought he was just kidding.... :-|
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