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Offline litster

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« Reply #50 on: Thu, 14 July 2011, 18:18:28 »
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Coincidentally I also have an almost unlimited supply of unavailable Space Saving keyboards, want to buy one? :lie:

Wish I could get lucky and find a source that the larger market demand didn't have access to therefore lowing the price.  See what I did there Ripster?  Your graph can't hurt me, :wink:.

This is exactly what I did, in World of Warcraft.  I had two accounts.  Both on the same server, one account is Alliance, the other Hoard.  I found out what was cheap in one faction's auction house but expensive in the other faction's AH, and I traded them at the neutral AH.  Made a lot of gold.  But then I got bored.

This is totally doable, in virtual worlds.
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« Reply #51 on: Thu, 14 July 2011, 18:48:29 »
Nerd alert.
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Offline litster

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« Reply #52 on: Thu, 14 July 2011, 19:17:04 »
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Nerd alert.

It is "Applied Economics".  LOL!
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Offline theferenc

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« Reply #53 on: Thu, 14 July 2011, 19:59:45 »
Apparently the two I ordered showed up after I left the country, so 妈妈陈 sent them back for me. But they do actually exist. Apparently the women sells them to you, then goes and fetches them from where ever it is she gets them, but sometimes it takes a week or so.
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Offline theferenc

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« Reply #54 on: Thu, 14 July 2011, 20:27:46 »
Well, considering she doesn't actually have them on hand, it makes sense that selling low keeps people reasonable.

But you're right, it isn't particularly in keeping with Chinese culture. I've always thought the Scottish and the Chinese had a very similar view towards business and money.
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Offline MissileMike

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« Reply #55 on: Fri, 15 July 2011, 12:25:04 »
My board arrived today.  Dirty, but in very good condition otherwise...  Keycaps seem to have minimal wear.
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Offline litster

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« Reply #56 on: Fri, 15 July 2011, 12:41:43 »
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My board arrived today.  Dirty, but in very good condition otherwise...  Keycaps seem to have minimal wear.

According to your sig, this would be your 8th SSK?  Congrats for a good deal!
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Offline Mazora

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« Reply #57 on: Fri, 15 July 2011, 13:12:38 »
I wonder what MissileMike does with all these SSKs
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Offline theferenc

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« Reply #58 on: Fri, 15 July 2011, 14:48:42 »
Or the other 20+ buckling spring keyboards. Maybe he runs an old school internet cafe?
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Offline TexasFlood

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« Reply #59 on: Fri, 15 July 2011, 15:10:20 »
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I wonder what MissileMike does with all these SSKs

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Or the other 20+ buckling spring keyboards. Maybe he runs an old school internet cafe?


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Offline MissileMike

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« Reply #60 on: Fri, 15 July 2011, 21:54:41 »
They mainly just sit in boxes in my basement, except for my main ssk that I use every day.  I guess I am just a collector.
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Offline BiNiaRiS

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« Reply #61 on: Fri, 15 July 2011, 22:14:16 »
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They mainly just sit in boxes in my basement, except for my main ssk that I use every day.  I guess I am just a collector.

Thank you for contributing to SSKs high prices by not using 7 of them while the rest of us try and bid on one and not spend a fortune.
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Offline REVENGE

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« Reply #62 on: Fri, 15 July 2011, 22:47:50 »
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Thank you for contributing to SSKs high prices by not using 7 of them while the rest of us try and bid on one and not spend a fortune.
1. Buy SSKs and never use them
2. ????
3. PROFIT?
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Offline TexasFlood

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« Reply #63 on: Sat, 16 July 2011, 00:15:49 »
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Thank you for contributing to SSKs high prices by not using 7 of them while the rest of us try and bid on one and not spend a fortune.

Sadly for you and I, at least for now...

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Offline MissileMike

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« Reply #64 on: Sat, 16 July 2011, 07:17:16 »
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Thank you for contributing to SSKs high prices by not using 7 of them while the rest of us try and bid on one and not spend a fortune.

That would be true if all mine came from ebay, but only two have, and I have only bid on one other ssk on ebay- the prices have very little to do with me.  But fine, Biniaris, do you want the one I just bought for exactly what I paid?  If so, just PayPal me, you know my address.  I am not trying to profit or horde, I just wanted a 1391472 for my collection :(
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Offline MissileMike

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« Reply #65 on: Sat, 16 July 2011, 07:29:36 »
Actually, though, you do have a point in that I do not need so many...  Going to sell them all off!
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Offline prd

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« Reply #66 on: Sat, 16 July 2011, 08:32:44 »
Watch out there! You're gonna lower the price.
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Offline Sam

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« Reply #67 on: Mon, 18 July 2011, 19:50:52 »
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Thank you for contributing to SSKs high prices by not using 7 of them while the rest of us try and bid on one and not spend a fortune.

I fail to understand this.  There's been and continues to be a flood of SSKs available on eBay, some going for near the $100 range.  Yet you ended up buying one from MissleMike for $250, the same price they've been selling at for several months?  What held you back till now from getting one?

I'm sure there's a bunch of people that are interested to get a SSK, but don't want to pay more than normal Model M prices.  That'll likely never happen, unless they get lucky and find a rare sale, from a seller who doesn't know what they're worth, before anyone else sees it.  But just because they want one, does that mean some seller should sell below the market price just so they can get one?  Sorry, but I cannot agree.  It's a free-market economy, and the prices for SSKs will be set by free market conditions, namely supply and demand.  (And no, Ripster, we don't need your S&D curve again, we've seen it enough, thanks.)

Anyways, if you look at the sales of SSKs, it's not any one person buying them all.  MissleMike's purchases are only a very small amount of the total sales and do very little if any to jack up the prices.  The prices are high because a lot of people are after a limited quantity of goods.  If $100 - $150, the price for a few good meals, for an excellent designed keyboard which will last you for many years, if not decades, is too much to spend, then you probably have your priorities elsewhere.  If so, no need to complain about not being able to get something for cheap.  Now if you're a student or someone else on a very tight budget, then I feel for you, but again you simply have to accept the economics of the situation.
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Offline TexasFlood

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« Reply #68 on: Tue, 19 July 2011, 16:55:26 »
IIRC those $250 SSKs from MissileMike were NIB.  I don't think it's accurate to say "There's been and continues to be a flood of SSKs available on eBay, some going for near the $100 range." with regard to NIB units.  So if you want NIB, seemingly you have to be prepared to pay the premium.  I personally am not prepared to pay that premium but obviously some are.
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Offline MissileMike

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« Reply #69 on: Tue, 19 July 2011, 17:16:05 »
The new ones have been going for close to 400 on ebay, actually.
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Offline Sam

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« Reply #70 on: Tue, 19 July 2011, 19:30:02 »
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IIRC those $250 SSKs from MissileMike were NIB.  I don't think it's accurate to say "There's been and continues to be a flood of SSKs available on eBay, some going for near the $100 range." with regard to NIB units.


Yes, but this thread is about used SSKs, not NIB SSKs, and BiNiaRiS commented on MissileMike's "hoarding" them (used SSKs) was preventing him from getting one for a reasonable price.  So it seemed to me that he was looking for a used SSK, but didn't have $100 - $150, which was the going rate for many of the used SSKs.  But being he ended up paying $250 for a NIB one, he obviously did have the money to buy a used SSK.  Thus my failure to understand his original complaint.

Ok, please don't anyone take my comments the wrong way.  I'm not trying to come down too hard on anyone for their comments.  Just I see the constant complaints about not being able to afford a SSK, when there are plenty of reasonably priced ones out there, and don't quite understand why the complainers don't just spend the time to find a unit on eBay.  NIB obviously costs a pretty penny, but if you don't have that kind of cash, you'll simply have to settle for used.

I'm with you.  I don't think the premium for new SSKs is worth it, so I don't buy.
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