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Thanks, guys. Yeah it's a little different shade of blue. Darker than baby blue but of course lighter than royal or plain blue. I thought it might match my blue gamer set from R3 but it's a bit darker.
My first thought was EK blue.
http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=access,toprekeys&pid=cf5t_sku_1blu
Whatever you do, do NOT look at the price on that page. It's enough to make a grown man weep. Where did I put those tissues ...
Oh my god...
Were these actually available just.. to buy? Like, did they not have a set quantity limit or a countdown to a first come first serve sale?
Yep. One of the most expensive items on the second hand market today literally sat there for months when they first went on sale.
Uhh didn't someone clear that up before they did not sit for months they sat for a few days before getting sold out?
Even so, more than a couple of seconds would seem insane in this day..
I picked a pretty bad time to find out about CCs.. I also found this post which is pointing me in the direction of the therapy thread.
Ehh don't worry too much about it youll get something given time, plus the wait makes it better, I think these days people see clacks as a status symbol anyway :X
Yep all good things come to those who wait. Took me a year to get my first Bro and CC.
Glad I am a patient person then
(seems like you really have to be for this hobby anyway).
They did sit on EK's site for a while, available to anyone who wanted to buy them. You have to understand though that Clacks were the very first artisan (at least that I know of). The idea of paying more than $1-2 for a single keycap was crazy back then. Unheard of. I remember when we did R3 and people would add all of these cool one-off designs to the order, and at low quantities some of them were over $2.50 each, people were like "that's crazy I'm not paying that".
My, how times are different now. You can't live in the past though. I do wonder just how high prices will eventually go. I'm not interested in paying them, and I already think that $50-$100 for a single cap is my very highest limit. I don't make crazy amounts of money, and there's just other things that I would rather spend $150 on. Of course, if one of you PM's me with an offer to sell me a GH, Senzunite, or Night Owl mkII for $150 I would probably change my mind.
