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Offline luis911

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Anybody know about these keycaps?
« on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 12:07:32 »
I just bought them from Feng.

They are IMSTO Dye-sub caps. They don't seem that common, since all I've seen IMSTO sell are cherry font keycaps. Any ideas when he sold these? Old group buy?

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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 12:14:52 »
I've never seen imsto caps that looked like that.

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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 18:18:54 »
I've never seen imsto caps that looked like that.
neither have I. But I trust Feng, especially since he has sold imsto's keycaps before.
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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 18:34:51 »
Those are not the Vortex PBT keycaps.  They had a similar font, but the escape key was labelled "Esc".  It looks very similar otherwise, and the Vortex' were available in that color combination.

One way to tell is the color of the white.  IMSTO "white" keycaps are a very distinctive gray.  Vortex keycaps are much more of a bright white.  From the picture, these look too bright to be IMSTO's.

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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 18:36:42 »
The font reminds me of old school apple keyboards, with the italicized font + bottom left corner alignment + no capital letters. :p
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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 18:40:07 »
The font reminds me of old school apple keyboards, with the italicized font + bottom left corner alignment + no capital letters. :p

Yea it's kind of weird, but that's why I bought them. They look cool to me. :thumb:
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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 22:10:32 »
thoeses are NOT ISMTO keys at all. I remember Feng having a new sell saying they were. I didn't want to say anything but thats a freaking lie. I have seen IMSTO's ptb dye subeds keys and they don't look like that. I even have a set.
« Last Edit: Mon, 17 February 2014, 22:12:10 by acidtrip69 »

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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 22:34:36 »
thoeses are NOT ISMTO keys at all. I remember Feng having a new sell saying they were. I didn't want to say anything but thats a freaking lie. I have seen IMSTO's ptb dye subeds keys and they don't look like that. I even have a set.

Is it possible he produced a different set some other time?
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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #8 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 22:48:09 »
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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #9 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 23:20:56 »
thoeses are NOT ISMTO keys at all. I remember Feng having a new sell saying they were. I didn't want to say anything but thats a freaking lie. I have seen IMSTO's ptb dye subeds keys and they don't look like that. I even have a set.

Is it possible he produced a different set some other time?
i guess thats the bad set, cuz i have the super thick ptb sets with dyed subed letters

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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #10 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 23:30:22 »
thoeses are NOT ISMTO keys at all. I remember Feng having a new sell saying they were. I didn't want to say anything but thats a freaking lie. I have seen IMSTO's ptb dye subeds keys and they don't look like that. I even have a set.

Is it possible he produced a different set some other time?
i guess thats the bad set, cuz i have the super thick ptb sets with dyed subed letters

Can you show me a picture of your set?
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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #11 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 23:34:18 »
thoeses are NOT ISMTO keys at all. I remember Feng having a new sell saying they were. I didn't want to say anything but thats a freaking lie. I have seen IMSTO's ptb dye subeds keys and they don't look like that. I even have a set.

Is it possible he produced a different set some other time?
i guess thats the bad set, cuz i have the super thick ptb sets with dyed subed letters

Can you show me a picture of your set?
i don't have camera, but i can tell you i have the light blue and the grey sets. Look for them on the imsto vender forum section.

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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #12 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 23:35:43 »
thoeses are NOT ISMTO keys at all. I remember Feng having a new sell saying they were. I didn't want to say anything but thats a freaking lie. I have seen IMSTO's ptb dye subeds keys and they don't look like that. I even have a set.

Is it possible he produced a different set some other time?
i guess thats the bad set, cuz i have the super thick ptb sets with dyed subed letters

Can you show me a picture of your set?
i don't have camera, but i can tell you i have the light blue and the grey sets. Look for them on the imsto vender forum section.
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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #13 on: Mon, 17 February 2014, 23:40:02 »
that looks so great ^_^ but i have it set up like this with some darker blue ptb wasd keys and a iron maskII dark metalic set up as the esc key right now ^_^


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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #14 on: Tue, 18 February 2014, 00:30:13 »
There was no group buy or sales for these keycaps. I personally bought them from imsto about 2 years ago. He was just getting started with his business at the time. The keycaps are the old KBC PBT keycaps with OEM profile. imsto is a member of KBC group.

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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #15 on: Tue, 18 February 2014, 00:32:51 »
There was no group buy or sales for these keycaps. I personally bought them from imsto about 2 years ago. He was just getting started with his business at the time. The keycaps are the old KBC PBT keycaps with OEM profile. imsto is a member of KBC group.
i never said you said you were having a group buy. I just said that you had a few you were selling not that long ago. a Few days a ago i think.
and sorry about the "lie" part theses are his first keys i guess. His newer ones are the really good ones ^_^
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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #16 on: Tue, 18 February 2014, 00:36:54 »
There was no group buy or sales for these keycaps. I personally bought them from imsto about 2 years ago. He was just getting started with his business at the time. The keycaps are the old KBC PBT keycaps with OEM profile. imsto is a member of KBC group.
i never said you said you were having a group buy. I just said that you had a few you were selling not that long ago. a Few days a ago i think.
and sorry about the "lie" part theses are his first keys i guess. His newer ones are the really good ones ^_^

Hey, how do you know these are bad?
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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #17 on: Tue, 18 February 2014, 00:42:27 »
There was no group buy or sales for these keycaps. I personally bought them from imsto about 2 years ago. He was just getting started with his business at the time. The keycaps are the old KBC PBT keycaps with OEM profile. imsto is a member of KBC group.
i never said you said you were having a group buy. I just said that you had a few you were selling not that long ago. a Few days a ago i think.
and sorry about the "lie" part theses are his first keys i guess. His newer ones are the really good ones ^_^

Hey, how do you know these are bad?
Cuz once you get your hands on  IMSTOs new ptb dye subs keys you will NEVER go back. They are that good ^_^no joke

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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #18 on: Wed, 19 February 2014, 08:33:14 »
that looks so great ^_^ but i have it set up like this with some darker blue ptb wasd keys and a iron maskII dark metalic set up as the esc key right now ^_^

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Where can I get a set of these keycaps?

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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #19 on: Mon, 24 February 2014, 22:54:34 »
no idea but they're very pretty
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Re: Anybody know about these keycaps?
« Reply #20 on: Mon, 24 February 2014, 22:59:00 »
that looks so great ^_^ but i have it set up like this with some darker blue ptb wasd keys and a iron maskII dark metalic set up as the esc key right now ^_^

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