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Offline hobojelloz

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« on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 13:08:30 »
I'm trying to get a new keyboard on taobao and I'm pretty set on getting the Noppoo Choc Mini with brown switches. I am using taobaobee as the agent and after trying 3 sellers who all say they have it on their site but then are sold out when I try to purchase it, I decided to ask for help. The agents told me they asked a few sellers who all said they only had black left.

Has anyone recently purchased one of the Noppoo's with brown switches from taobao? If so, what seller did you use? I don't want to try every single seller that says they have brown in stock and piss off the people at taobaobee...but I will if it comes to that :boink:

 Thanks!
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Offline whocares1195

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« Reply #1 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 14:07:20 »
I used TaoBaoSpree.com about a month ago to order some colored blanks since I didn't want to wait on the Group Buys going on in the forum.  They have their own excel order sheet that you fill out on the website.  What you can do is email them that your interested in a certain product and provide them with different links of the same item and they will follow up on all of them to find it and then set up your order form for you to review.  They also use PayPal which was convenient for me.  I have another order going through them right now for some more colored blanks and 2 sets of 104 key white engraved.  They've been helpful to me so far and they charge 10% of your order which is pretty good among all the TaoBao agents.
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Offline theferenc

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« Reply #2 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 14:22:58 »
This is a common problem on Taobao, actually. You either get your stuff immediately (like overnight), or they posted an item they didn't actually have in their possession, and you never get it. And then they refund your money to Alipay...which won't release funds to your bank, so you have to use it on something else on Taobao or some other website that accepts them.

Really obnoxious, actually. My advice is find out if they have it BEFORE you try to buy it. Otherwise it's just annoying.

And yes, I've been annoyed with Taobao lately.
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Offline IvanIvanovich

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« Reply #3 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 14:27:16 »
probably much more expensive, but heres one on ebay, seller shows 2 in stock, also us based. save yourself some hassle at the expense of your wallet?
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Offline rsantos97

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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 14:28:32 »
I just ordered that same keyboard a couple of days ago using myobook.net and so far everything has been smooth.  They shipped out the board within a day or two of receiving the payment.  They accept PayPal.
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Offline hobojelloz

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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 14:45:43 »
Thanks for the responses!

Unfortunately I wasn't being smart and put money onto my taobaobee account before figuring out that none of the sellers actually had the keyboard even though many said they did. It seems like I can get a refund for onto my credit card, which I am currently trying to do. That ebay one is quite expensive, but temptation might get the best of me. I will look into the myobook and see how that plays out. Thanks!
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Offline hobojelloz

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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 14:48:27 »
The taobaospree doesn't work for me.
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Offline hobojelloz

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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 14:52:04 »
also,

rsantos, do you remember which taobao seller you bought the keyboard from?
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Offline rsantos97

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« Reply #8 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 15:24:32 »
No, the obook agent placed the order for me.  I just told them what I wanted and they took care of the rest.
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Offline theferenc

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« Reply #9 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 16:43:22 »
obook has a pretty good reputation around here. Not having a need for an agent, I've never used them, so I can't say anything about them personally though. But it's a name I see here a lot (I really wish I could have a pet alot...) in conjunction with Taobao.
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Offline litster

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« Reply #10 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 17:08:36 »
This is what I did.  search for "Noppoo Choc Mini 茶轴".  Or click this link http://s.taobao.com/search?q=Noppoo+Choc+Mini+%B2%E8%D6%E1

You should see many pages or results.  On the list, on the colume 2nd from right is the number of transsactions for each of the listings.  Go though the ones with more than a few transactions and click each of them.  on the listing page, the 3rd tab is transaction record. Click that tab and look for recent transactions with 茶轴, that is MX Brown.  If you can find a seller who sold a brown recently (in the last few days), than that seller may have browns in stock.

I looked at a few listings and most of them have just sold MX blacks recently.  

rsantos97, since obook has found one recently for you, the link to the seller's listing should be on the excel spreadsheet that obook sent you.  Can you go to the spreadsheet and share the link here?
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Offline kaiserreich

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« Reply #11 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 19:04:26 »
Normally I just ask the sellers via 'Wang Wang' IM before purchasing anything. But then again, you have to be able to read chinese and write (type) in Chinese to be able to do that.
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Offline rsantos97

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« Reply #12 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 19:12:19 »
Quote from: litster;354825
This is what I did.  search for "Noppoo Choc Mini 茶轴".  Or click this link http://s.taobao.com/search?q=Noppoo+Choc+Mini+%B2%E8%D6%E1

You should see many pages or results.  On the list, on the colume 2nd from right is the number of transsactions for each of the listings.  Go though the ones with more than a few transactions and click each of them.  on the listing page, the 3rd tab is transaction record. Click that tab and look for recent transactions with 茶轴, that is MX Brown.  If you can find a seller who sold a brown recently (in the last few days), than that seller may have browns in stock.

I looked at a few listings and most of them have just sold MX blacks recently.  

rsantos97, since obook has found one recently for you, the link to the seller's listing should be on the excel spreadsheet that obook sent you.  Can you go to the spreadsheet and share the link here?


I can't find the link on the spreadsheet.  The only link I see is http://www.thenoppoo.com/
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Offline litster

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« Reply #13 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 20:32:20 »
It should be on the "Products" tab, column O, row 10 or lower.
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Offline runeazn

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« Reply #14 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 20:49:08 »
do what i do...
call them and ask it, best and straightforwartest way..
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Offline rsantos97

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« Reply #15 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 21:27:38 »
Quote from: litster;354957
It should be on the "Products" tab, column O, row 10 or lower.

They just have that link (http://www.thenoppoo.com) there exactly where you said to look.
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Offline litster

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« Reply #16 on: Thu, 02 June 2011, 21:47:10 »
Okay, then they must have their own supplier.  obook is the way to go for a Noppoo Choc Mini with browns then.
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Offline mmmty

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« Reply #17 on: Fri, 03 June 2011, 12:49:04 »
My obook agent's name is Bond, Zhu Bond.

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Offline dawnguo

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« Reply #18 on: Wed, 14 March 2012, 01:37:22 »
speaking of group buying on keyboards from taobao, here is a website dedicated on that  http://www.wantrr.com , looking like a beta version, might be interesting to run a testing group buy on taobao....
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Offline litster

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« Reply #19 on: Wed, 14 March 2012, 01:57:34 »
Hey dawnguo, how come the link you include says http://www.wantrr.com, but the actually link is http://wantrr.com/?ref=wrr-gkhk?

What is /?ref=wrr-gkhk?  Is that your referral link?  Do you get paid if we buy something because we use your referral link?
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Offline net2522

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« Reply #20 on: Wed, 14 March 2012, 02:17:23 »
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=15165120533

I bought keyboard from this dude. here is another web run with the same guy.

http://ohmykb.com/

he's french .  you can ask him via the contact.
« Last Edit: Wed, 14 March 2012, 02:20:20 by net2522 »
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Offline dawnguo

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« Reply #21 on: Wed, 14 March 2012, 02:23:08 »
good catch, because they have a referral system for anyone who signed up during the pilot run, i do want to generate some clicks for myself, but the original intention was to have a group buy on taobao of course.  :)
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Offline ekw808

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« Reply #22 on: Fri, 23 March 2012, 20:20:49 »
Has anyone used this website to purchase anything yet: http://ohmykb.com ??
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« Reply #23 on: Tue, 27 March 2012, 01:09:58 »
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Has anyone used this website to purchase anything yet: http://ohmykb.com ??

His name attrian he run gb on desk. Fast shipping good comunication. His web site a bit odd. Because it not finish yet I bought race from him(first invoice from there site) look at marketplace on desk. He's runing some gb now.  Cheers~


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Offline djsumdog

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« Reply #24 on: Fri, 08 June 2012, 04:03:57 »
Quote from: net2522;557899
His name attrian he run gb on desk. Fast shipping good comunication. His web site a bit odd. Because it not finish yet I bought race from him(first invoice from there site) look at marketplace on desk. He's runing some gb now.  Cheers~


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How long did it take you to get your keyboard? I just ordered a KBT Race Pink on Monday and have so far gotten no feedback, no replies to e-mails and the order is marked with "Payment Accepted." My invoice number is #20, so I guess many people have tried this out yet.
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