Author Topic: Elitekeyboards Pushes Filco Browns to Nov 10th (Read 15463 times)

viviwill · « **Reply #50 on:** Fri, 12 November 2010, 04:02:52 »

Quote from: ironman31;245741

I have a few friends that were unsure of my willingness to spend that much money on keyboards, and now that they learned that their favorite pro gamers use mechanicals, they jumped all over getting a filco.

I have to admit my subconscience think a filco will bring me more wins lol

tjweir · « **Reply #51 on:** Fri, 12 November 2010, 07:00:39 »

Quote from: jaynoon;245708

Is that info on the EliteKeyboards site anywhere? I ordered one a couple of weeks back, and all I see on EK now is that the Browns are out of stock, with no ETA for more...

No, I emailed regarding my order on Nov 10, the expected restocking day. The info is from the response from Brian.

wordfool · « **Reply #52 on:** Fri, 12 November 2010, 09:51:10 »

Quote from: teiresias;242944

Only issue is they charged my credit card already (which the order email said would not happen, said it would be charged when shipped), so I'd need to go through getting a refund if I decide to cancel.

No shipping update for me so I guess I'm outta luck this time around, but I was also charged through paypal when I ordered, which is odd.

Guess I'll have to wait to see what the next ETA is before deciding whether to cancel, otherwise I might end up with an overpriced numpad and no keyboard

didjamatic · « **Reply #53 on:** Fri, 12 November 2010, 10:03:42 »

Any Filco keycap news? I'm serious and not trolling. I keep hoping they'll announce PBT or Doubleshots and better cable connection, but I'd settle for good blank or lasered key caps.

Wogrim · « **Reply #54 on:** Fri, 12 November 2010, 14:58:33 »

Quote from: viviwill;245841

I have to admit my subconscience think a filco will bring me more wins lol

Hmm I don't really feel like one will get me more wins apart from the keys being more reliable (I've had a couple problems when typing that could lose a game). I'm more interested in a more comfortable typing experience (less force and not bottoming out).

jaynoon · « **Reply #55 on:** Fri, 12 November 2010, 21:26:10 »

*phew* just received my shipping notification tonight for my Filco Brown Tenkeyless. I ordered on Oct 29th.

fuzzybyte · « **Reply #56 on:** Fri, 12 November 2010, 21:50:50 »

armygroup.com.tw is stocking filcos.
i got another filco tenkeyless for 107 EUR including shipping just last week
the site is completely chinese, but paying with paypal works fine, if you can fill out the order form correctly.
don't bother sending mail to them, they'll just answer with some uncomprehensible machine translated mess.

teiresias · « **Reply #57 on:** Fri, 12 November 2010, 23:51:25 »

I actually received my keyboard two days ago!! It will definitely take some getting used to since it is so effortless, I'm bottoming out like crazy. Gaming is much more comfortable, though until I get used to it I'm putting more thinking into just touch typing. Once I get used to the keys though I'll be able to fly. LOVE THIS THING!!!

I'd emailed Brian about my earlier credit card issue (just out of concern about possibly being charged twice). He said I was at the top of the backorder list (I ordered on Oct. 12th), and since I'd waited so long he went ahead and shipped me one out of "repair stock" (stock kept in-house to replace DOA and returned faulty keyboards) since they had a confirmed order for the Nov. 10th. He said they hadn't actually received the shipment they'd expected on Oct. 30th. Those Koreans and their SC2 obsession must be sucking up all the stock around the world.

TastesBetterOutdoors · « **Reply #58 on:** Sat, 13 November 2010, 14:43:54 »

Just got mine. Typing on it is dreamy. It's smaller than I expected, which is fine because I like the small form factor aspect. It makes me feel that a HHKB might be too small.

Delivery from SoCal to me in Portland was a speedy day and a half.

sealcouch · « **Reply #59 on:** Sun, 14 November 2010, 02:41:20 »

well fook me. Looks like I'm not getting one anytime soon.

viviwill · « **Reply #60 on:** Sun, 14 November 2010, 03:28:21 »

Quote from: fuzzybyte;246186

armygroup.com.tw is stocking filcos.
i got another filco tenkeyless for 107 EUR including shipping just last week
the site is completely chinese, but paying with paypal works fine, if you can fill out the order form correctly.
don't bother sending mail to them, they'll just answer with some uncomprehensible machine translated mess.

thank you for sharing
ship cost is a little expensive, add about 30% of a keyboard's value

tjweir · « **Reply #61 on:** Sun, 14 November 2010, 09:24:06 »

Quote from: tjweir;245328

The Tenkeyless Brown I ordered on Oct 15th is in stock and said to ship out on Friday.

I received shipping confirmation Nov 13th, for the Oct 15th order.

keyboardlover · « **Reply #62 on:** Sun, 14 November 2010, 10:53:14 »

Quote from: tjweir

I received shipping confirmation Nov 13th, for the Oct 15th order.

Majestouch must be busy then...no wonder he raised his prices! Guess the gift everyone's giving this year is Kick Ass Keyboards!

muchadoaboutnothing · « **Reply #63 on:** Sun, 14 November 2010, 11:41:37 »

The real cause for delay:

'Mo money, 'mo problems.

F2a · « **Reply #64 on:** Tue, 16 November 2010, 23:47:36 »

Damn you Sc2. I need a brown keyboard fast, this blue one is making everyone hate me.

johnnysasaki · « **Reply #65 on:** Wed, 17 November 2010, 17:04:28 »

Quote from: tjweir;246654

I received shipping confirmation Nov 13th, for the Oct 15th order.

I received my confirmation email on the 15th, but the shipping notification happened on the 13th. I ordered just before the price hike (lucky~~) and am hoping to receive it soon. I am in Canada, so who knows how long it'll take.

jaynoon · « **Reply #66 on:** Wed, 17 November 2010, 19:18:17 »

Just received my tenkeyless brown today!!

Gotta figure out if I can pull the Esc key with my bare hands (didn't buy a puller) but other than that I'm loving it so far.

RoboKrikit · « **Reply #67 on:** Wed, 17 November 2010, 19:57:01 »

Quote from: jaynoon;248339

Just received my tenkeyless brown today!!

Gotta figure out if I can pull the Esc key with my bare hands (didn't buy a puller) but other than that I'm loving it so far.

I forgot to get a puller with mine, and tugged it out with a paper clip bent into a flat U shape.

jaynoon · « **Reply #68 on:** Wed, 17 November 2010, 23:43:37 »

Quote from: RoboKrikit;248358

I forgot to get a puller with mine, and tugged it out with a paper clip bent into a flat U shape.

That sounds like a plan, I'll report back

Nadger · « **Reply #69 on:** Thu, 18 November 2010, 13:30:23 »

Does elitekeyboards ever get the otaku tenkeyless brown in stock anymore?

Or am i stuck with getting the normal one and buying blank keycaps from somewhere?

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johnnysasaki · « **Reply #70 on:** Thu, 18 November 2010, 14:15:32 »

Quote from: Nadger;248711

Does elitekeyboards ever get the tenkeyless brown in stock anymore?

Or am i stuck with getting the normal one and buying blank keycaps from somewhere?

They did restock. I had one backordered about 1.5 weeks before the restock on Nov 10th. It's just that the few from the new batch that weren't already backordered got bought up real quick. I'm sure with such a hot product, EKB is definitely going to restock soon. I think they are probably just trying to gauge demand for their next order.

Nadger · « **Reply #71 on:** Thu, 18 November 2010, 14:35:15 »

Woops i just noticed i forgot to the "otaku" part in my pervious post. I'm looking for the the otaku tenkeyless brown.

I noticed they dont have it listed in their products section anymore.

You can still find its product page by googling for it but both the otaku version and the blank keycaps are no longer available for purchase.

mjacob · « **Reply #72 on:** Thu, 18 November 2010, 14:40:42 »

Quote from: Nadger;248772

You can still find its product page by googling for it but both the otaku version and the blank keycaps are no longer available for purchase.

I sent them an email to ask when the "otaku" versions would be back in stock, and their response was that it's a limited edition keyboard that they only order a couple times a year. The next availability is supposed to be in early 2011.

Matt

jaynoon · « **Reply #73 on:** Thu, 18 November 2010, 14:42:37 »

I ended up using some floss to swap out my Esc key, as well as swap my win/alt keys to make it feel like a proper Mac keyboard. Now it's juuust right

CodeChef · « **Reply #74 on:** Thu, 18 November 2010, 20:19:40 »

Quote from: jaynoon;248775

I ended up using some floss to swap out my Esc key, as well as swap my win/alt keys to make it feel like a proper Mac keyboard. Now it's juuust right

Gonna laugh when you go to Alt-F4 or Windows-L or what have you and **** doesn't work, yo.

jaynoon · « **Reply #75 on:** Thu, 18 November 2010, 20:28:13 »

Quote from: CodeChef;248950

Gonna laugh when you go to Alt-F4 or Windows-L or what have you and **** doesn't work, yo.

Well you have to remap the keys in the OS too

CodeChef · « **Reply #76 on:** Thu, 18 November 2010, 21:04:38 »

Quote from: jaynoon;248952

Well you have to remap the keys in the OS too

Oh but that's so much more work!

Nadger · « **Reply #77 on:** Thu, 18 November 2010, 21:36:56 »

Quote from: mjacob;248774

I sent them an email to ask when the "otaku" versions would be back in stock, and their response was that it's a limited edition keyboard that they only order a couple times a year. The next availability is supposed to be in early 2011.

Matt

Thanks for the info! Kinda funny i finally decide what keyboard i want and its no longer available! I may just end up ordering some blank filco caps from australia and a regular tenkeyless brown from elitekeyboards.

Ice[9] · « **Reply #78 on:** Fri, 19 November 2010, 21:57:22 »

Quote from: vicariouscheese;241590

its funny cuz its true

seriously, a thousands of people now know what mechanical keyboards are because of several big names that showed up at gsl (the best korean tournament) were playing on filcos. alot of kids used the qsenn dt35 just because almost all the original brood war progamers use it, its kind of silly.

i honestly do think elitekeyboards ran through their stock because of all the sc nerds...

To give some perspective, FruitDealer won GSL1 using a Filco... at the time Zerg was being completely overpowered by Terran, and he made it look easy (maybe it was the keyboard?).

On topic: I learned about Filco through that thread, which lead me to GeekHack

I plan on buying a Filco Majestouch Tenkeyless Tactile Touch when I get the money.

johnnysasaki · « **Reply #79 on:** Fri, 19 November 2010, 22:54:10 »

Quote from: 'Ice[9

;249551']To give some perspective, FruitDealer won GSL1 using a Filco... at the time Zerg was being completely overpowered by Terran, and he made it look easy (maybe it was the keyboard?).

On topic: I learned about Filco through that thread, which lead me to GeekHack

I plan on buying a Filco Majestouch Tenkeyless Tactile Touch when I get the money.

Welcome to GeekHack and I am in the same boat (though I got my order in a few weeks ago, when I got my job offer letter for work next term). I wish you all the luck you'd need, finding the KB. Try ArmyGroup before you go for EliteKeyBoards since EKB doesn't have stock at the moment and I suspect it's a bit cheaper via AG. I ordered from EKB before I found out about AG. AG also has a set of Otaku keys if you are into that kind of thing (I am, so guess what I bought from AG).

Ice[9] · « **Reply #80 on:** Sat, 20 November 2010, 19:56:22 »

Quote from: johnnysasaki;249563

Welcome to GeekHack and I am in the same boat (though I got my order in a few weeks ago, when I got my job offer letter for work next term). I wish you all the luck you'd need, finding the KB. Try ArmyGroup before you go for EliteKeyBoards since EKB doesn't have stock at the moment and I suspect it's a bit cheaper via AG. I ordered from EKB before I found out about AG. AG also has a set of Otaku keys if you are into that kind of thing (I am, so guess what I bought from AG).

Can you link the site to me? I Google'd "Army Group Keyboards" and nothing relevant came up.

johnnysasaki · « **Reply #81 on:** Sat, 20 November 2010, 22:00:14 »

Quote from: 'Ice[9

;249961']Can you link the site to me? I Google'd "Army Group Keyboards" and nothing relevant came up.

http://www.armygroup.com.tw/shop/

Use Chrome/a Chinese person to translate and search "Filco" and you should be fine. Happy hunting! Wish I found this page before shelling out for EKB.

lloyd · « **Reply #82 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 01:20:00 »

http://www.armygroup.com.tw/shop/goods.php?id=1680

Has anyone had luck ordering from Taiwan? I'm thinking of waiting until EK is restocked.

F2a · « **Reply #83 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 02:00:04 »

I ordered that and paid on Friday from armygroup.com.tw . Nothing has happened yet. I'll see what happens next week.

tjweir · « **Reply #84 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 08:29:11 »

Quote from: tjweir;246654

I received shipping confirmation Nov 13th, for the Oct 15th order.

My Filco Brown arrived today. Poor delivery guy, first Sunday of the holiday rush.

A very different feeling between the Browns and Blues, but it feels great.

(Sorry about the weak pic, iPhone 3GS + basement office)

muchadoaboutnothing · « **Reply #85 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 10:20:36 »

Quote from: tjweir;250099

My Filco Brown arrived today. Poor delivery guy, first Sunday of the holiday rush.

They've already hired a ton of seasonal help and are paying extra to the regulars as well - I wouldn't feel too bad for your UPS/FedEx guy.

johnnysasaki · « **Reply #86 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 12:56:09 »

Quote from: F2a;250056

I ordered that and paid on Friday from armygroup.com.tw . Nothing has happened yet. I'll see what happens next week.

I ordered a set of otaku caps and got an email confirming the payment was received and warning me that I would receive another notification as soon as it ships. This was last Friday, order placed Thursday.

kidchunks · « **Reply #87 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 15:27:24 »

o noes! Seem EKB took the tenkeyless browns off their list. Guess they ain't planning on getting stock any time soon.

keyboardlover · « **Reply #88 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 15:36:46 »

kidchunks, I like your sig colors. Are you Romanian?

kidchunks · « **Reply #89 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 15:41:39 »

Quote from: keyboardlover;250234

kidchunks, I like your sig colors. Are you Romanian?

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Nope :biggrin:

Just randomly picked them lol!

jaynoon · « **Reply #90 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 16:49:22 »

I get the strong sense that Filco stocks are stressed everywhere (thanks Starcraft 2!), and that Diatec/Filco are replenishing their big customers first, which leaves EKB waiting indefinitely. That would explain the removal of the ETAs/listings, which up to this point were really accurate.

It's a shame, really. Maybe EKB can pick up some Duckys? Jumping through the hoops of ordering through the Taiwanese websites just isn't something that most people will do.

StiMPy · « **Reply #91 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 17:21:33 »

Quote from: jaynoon;250254

I get the strong sense that Filco stocks are stressed everywhere (thanks Starcraft 2!),

I'm guessing I'm part of the problem too (Just ordered a Flico cause of the buzz that was surrounding them in the Starcraft community).

Nah, in the long term, it can only be good for Filco/Unicomp. The more people start to see good keyboards as an investment in a good tool, the better, and having more mechanical keyboards out there is only a good thing. I'm glad it's all mechanical keyboards that are being sold out and not just ones by Razer tbh.

johnnysasaki · « **Reply #92 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 19:55:32 »

Quote from: jaynoon;250254

Jumping through the hoops of ordering through the Taiwanese websites just isn't something that most people will do.

That is what I am counting on to keep my supply of goodies in stock and ready to ship!

mahimahimahi · « **Reply #93 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 22:44:00 »

Does anybody know when these will come in? I sold my otaku with browns b/c I didn't realize a printed brown wouldn't be in stock

. Stupid koreans and their starcraft!

kidchunks · « **Reply #94 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 23:13:57 »

Quote from: mahimahimahi;250403

Does anybody know when these will come in? I sold my otaku with browns b/c I didn't realize a printed brown wouldn't be in stock . Stupid koreans and their starcraft!

Sucks, you should of asked in classified if anyone was willing to trade blanks for printed before selling it.

I would of bought em =\

Anyways if you want brown, EKB won't havem for awhile I suppose (off the product list).

pchome/armygroup still has some.

LawnJesus · « **Reply #95 on:** Sun, 21 November 2010, 23:55:33 »

****, just saw that elitekeyboards removed the FILCO with browns off the product list. I say we declare a state of emergency on this matter.

F2a · « **Reply #96 on:** Mon, 22 November 2010, 00:14:09 »

State of emergency? Good god man, just order one from Taiwan. It's cheaper and they come with free stuff.

mahimahimahi · « **Reply #97 on:** Mon, 22 November 2010, 00:27:16 »

I'm glad I found this forum! Just ordered a nkro 104 key from Tiwan! Total $160 shipped. That is around the same price as EKB $157 shipped.

Thanks guys

SpatiallyAware · « **Reply #98 on:** Mon, 22 November 2010, 07:59:05 »

Ok so....

Is there a quality brand we can go with for browns that doesn't require a translator, $100 shipping, and a bunch of good luck?

CodeChef · « **Reply #99 on:** Mon, 22 November 2010, 08:02:01 »

Quote from: SpatiallyAware;250521

Ok so....

Is there a quality brand we can go with for browns that doesn't require a translator, $100 shipping, and a bunch of good luck?

Nope. Go with PChome or Armygroup, or you're out of luck my friend

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