ISO keycaps - Duties, taxes and fees...

[Clafou]

Hello!

I'm currently using a Filco MJ2 tenkeyless and the keycaps are getting shiny. I'd like to replace them but I don't think there are a lot of keycaps resellers that sell ISO layout.

WASD Keyboards are selling Belgian layout keycaps, which is great, but I don't know what to expect with taxes (I live in Belgium).

Did anybody from Europe order from them and if so, did you get any taxes?


Thanks! (and sorry for my english...)

[ndakota79]

Yeah you've got to pay taxes, but I don't know how much. Shipping won't be cheap, too.
Maybe you should get your caps inside the EU. I know Teraset (https://www.teraset.net/ducky.php) has ISO Layout, but there are more: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=45672.0

[katushkin]

I bought an ISO set from WASD, and got hit with about £18 of taxes because it's all based off the value of the product with HMRC...

The quality of the caps aren't great either, the colours are a bit weird and they only go thin ABS.

[ndakota79]

Just saw that Teraset has some PBT ISO Sets for sale: White blank, black blank and black with nordic legends.
25€ sounds like a good deal, but i'm not sure wheather they are thick or thin and they don't seem to say anything about the printing. I would write them a mail.

[Findecanor]

The Leopold blank dark blue ANSI set comes with an extra 1.25 key and an extra 1u key, so you'd need only a Cherry-profile Enter key to make it an ISO set. That's what I'm doing.

[Harrowed]

Just saw that Teraset has some PBT ISO Sets for sale: White blank, black blank and black with nordic legends.
25€ sounds like a good deal, but i'm not sure wheather they are thick or thin and they don't seem to say anything about the printing. I would write them a mail.

Those were probably laser etched thin sets...? There are more sets available below https://www.teraset.net/ducky.php#4 Dyesubs and thick sets there.

[IvanIvanovich]

You may be able to find Cherry G81-3000L*NBE for cheap price on ebay or other similar. Cherry always have some very good quality keycap, and usually the best language selection. Even the lasered ones are better than most. If you are lucky you might find G80 version... and if you are seriously lucky you might find HAB, H**BE or SAB model. The only real downside is you have to buy entire keyboards to get them.

Oh, I thought I saw one posted on other board so here you go... link though the picture is terrible so it's hard to say what the condition really is.

[Clafou]

Thank you for all these info!

I think I'll go with a PBT set from teraset. I don't know which one already but probably a blank set.
I don't know if it's a good idea to go with a blank one but the nordic layout is quite different from the belgian one.

I don't think a set from wasdkeyboard would be a lot cheaper but if I'm correct wasd sets are ABS, so I suppose teraset's set could be a better choice.

Again, thanks

[Yslen]

WASD is pretty poor quality, those PBTs teraset sells are definitely a better choice.