Looking between 3 keyboards and looking for suggestions

[aznsparks]

Hi everyone!

I'm a Canadian, (from Alberta), and I'm heading out to Vancouver and Seattle soon, so I have the option to purchase at a physical store (free shipping because I am the shipping!).
I'm looking into the Ducky Zero Shine (cheapest Ducky at NCIX), which is $110 CAD (on sale, but listed as ending on the 26th, and I won't be in Vancouver until the 26th), but BC sales tax is ludicrous and I would end up paying like $125 CAD total.

The CM Storm Quickfire XT is $95 CAD on Newegg, and while I hope that they'd be willing to match the price at NCIX, I'm not keeping my hopes up since they weren't willing to match a pair of headphones I bought last year due to the matched price "being under their margins" (despite only being about $10 less).

Finally I'm also considering the Quickfire TK, not the rapid, mostly because I want a number pad.

I was also thinking about the Corsair K70, but I want to be able to easily customize the keycaps, and the K70 has a weird bottom row. Finally, I'm looking into blue or brown switches, as I like the tactile response - I'm currently on an ALPS White switch, but am upgrading because no one really makes keycaps for it, and my WASD rubberized keycaps that came with the board kinda suck.

The only store in America that really carries a fair amount of mechs is frys, which unfortunately doesn't carry any CM Storm keyboards or ducky.

TL; DR / P.S.: Quickfire XT, Ducky Zero Shine, Quickfire TK. What are your opinions? I want customizability, lighting is a bonus but I don't care for 5 million colours or whatever, it's not a huge deal to me. My main priority is the typing experience and overall quality of the board.

[Hyde]

CM Storm XT hands down.

Personally I don't like the mushiness from Cherry stabilizer so that will steer me away from Ducky even though it's a fine board non the less.

If you don't mind Cherry stabilizer then Ducky is a good second choice.

QuickFire TK has a unique layout which may or may not for you.  But as far as I know this also has Cherry stabilizer.

But overall I still think CM Storm XT offer the best customizability and build quality and feel. 

[julayyy]

I have the quickfire tk and it has the same bottom row as the corsair k70. I managed to pick up a 6.5 space bar at signature plastic though but the color might not match your Keyset. It's still a good keyboard imo

[GL1TCH3D]

CM Storm XT hands down.

Personally I don't like the mushiness from Cherry stabilizer so that will steer me away from Ducky even though it's a fine board non the less.

If you don't mind Cherry stabilizer then Ducky is a good second choice.

QuickFire TK has a unique layout which may or may not for you.  But as far as I know this also has Cherry stabilizer.

But overall I still think CM Storm XT offer the best customizability and build quality and feel. 

See I'm the opposite. Stock stablizers I'd still much rather have the cherry since I can't use costar properly