Need a beam spring for cheap
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How did the beam spring owners on deskthority get their beam springs? I've heard a lot of good things about these keyboards. I really want to try one.
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- Location: Irvine, California
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I also found this, proof that beam springs can be cheap. http://m.ebay.com/itm/250849037341
- Muirium
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I saw one go for $75 or thereabouts once. Alas, America, and I had no proxy at the time. Couldn't do a thing about it.
Good to see <$200 classified as "cheap". Usually when people say that magic word they've just lost their minds and mean something like €30 or less!
Good to see <$200 classified as "cheap". Usually when people say that magic word they've just lost their minds and mean something like €30 or less!
- dorkvader
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My first one was $35, second $75Muirium wrote: ↑I saw one go for $75 or thereabouts once. Alas, America, and I had no proxy at the time. Couldn't do a thing about it.
Good to see <$200 classified as "cheap". Usually when people say that magic word they've just lost their minds and mean something like €30 or less!
On the first it didn't say "IBM" or "keyboard" in the title or description and *still* another person found it and didn't bid against me at my request. The second was in horrible condition. It works but its currently in pieces awaiting sanding / painting the plate.
The problem is the the best deals were had from parts resellers, and most of those have been filtered out from Cindy and other people buying them up for us.
I suspect the most "available" source (other than the rumoured 130 find that probably wont pan out) might be e-waste in Asia.
Honestly, it is likely better to just make a modern interpretation of it, like the alps plate spring of the mid '80s.
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this one was listed today... for 3minutes
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-IBM-KEY ... 7675.l2557
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-IBM-KEY ... 7675.l2557
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I saw this too and watched it gone. Some people need to have better spending etiquettesSayso wrote: ↑this one was listed today... for 3minutes
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-IBM-KEY ... 7675.l2557
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- Location: Australia
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beamspring is quite rare and you would normally pay more than $200 for a good condition (and if better with already USB controller modded). I've bought mine from DT fellow and has been using it daily. Now I want to get rid of all of my MX and Topre collection, buy more beamspring and retire from the scenes altogether. It's the ultimate keyboard IMHO.
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I was actually looking for one without any restoration done to it so I could restore it myself. How much would one in a bad condition sell for?
- seebart
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OH YEAH me too.Need a beam spring for cheap
about 200-300.MECHGAMER wrote: ↑How much would one in a bad condition sell for?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-IBM-5 ... 5d59efbfde
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Sayso wrote: ↑this one was listed today... for 3minutes
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-IBM-KEY ... 7675.l2557
gah thats the model i have already wanted
i should not be greedy i have is big brother, without the cool extra buttons
- Muirium
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Everyone in their right mind wants that model. The buyer was correct to ask the seller if they wanted to cheat eBay out of a cut. That's business. Dirty and effective.
- kbdfr
- The Tiproman
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If you are referring to the one which allegedly was listed for just 3 minutes, you are all mistaking.Muirium wrote: ↑Everyone in their right mind wants that model. The buyer was correct to ask the seller if they wanted to cheat eBay out of a cut. That's business. Dirty and effective.
It was (resorting to German time and eBay.de as eBay.com isn't cooperative there)
- listed at 16:38:05 with a Buy-It-Now price of $250
- sold at 18:22:49 for that Buy-It-Now price of $250
i.e it was listed for 1 hour 44 minutes and 44 seconds before someone bought it in an absolutely legit way.
- Muirium
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All the better then. I assumed otherwise because of the grousing a few posts earlier. Buy it now or forever hold your peace!
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You should just buy this before anyone go for that.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Huge- ... 5d59efc649
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Huge- ... 5d59efc649
- seebart
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Yeah but that gnarly shipping cost...modology wrote: ↑You should just buy this before anyone go for that.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Huge- ... 5d59efc649
- Madhias
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Bought from Cindy, but I was just lucky at 3AM in the morning. Those are some heavy and loud bastards! You definitely should try one. Maybe you like it and need one then, or it could also be that you think it is too big and heavy for daily use. Unfortunately they are too heavy to make a beamspring tour and send them around Europe! But we don't know were you live yet.MECHGAMER wrote: ↑How did the beam spring owners on deskthority get their beam springs? I've heard a lot of good things about these keyboards. I really want to try one.
I've made some video - excuse the bad quality, I am not a film guy - to show how the solenoid driver can kick in (in the second part of the video)! It is more like a machine gun then...
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FeeBay is dirty as is. Not like it is entitled to that money anyway... I think all the better if the seller can reach an agreement with the buyer privately and avoid fees. Win-win!Muirium wrote: ↑Everyone in their right mind wants that model. The buyer was correct to ask the seller if they wanted to cheat eBay out of a cut. That's business. Dirty and effective.
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- Location: UK
- Main keyboard: Filco ZERO green alps, Model F 122 Terminal
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Madhias wrote: ↑Bought from Cindy, but I was just lucky at 3AM in the morning. Those are some heavy and loud bastards! You definitely should try one. Maybe you like it and need one then, or it could also be that you think it is too big and heavy for daily use. Unfortunately they are too heavy to make a beamspring tour and send them around Europe! But we don't know were you live yet.MECHGAMER wrote: ↑How did the beam spring owners on deskthority get their beam springs? I've heard a lot of good things about these keyboards. I really want to try one.
I've made some video - excuse the bad quality, I am not a film guy - to show how the solenoid driver can kick in (in the second part of the video)! It is more like a machine gun then...
Ha thats your video ? Just commented on it What happened to your case ?
- kbdfr
- The Tiproman
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On the other hand, making use of but eluding payment for the services offered by eBay seems… err… not quite honestdzhoou wrote: ↑[…] I think all the better if the seller can reach an agreement with the buyer privately and avoid fees. Win-win!
Basically, it cannot be left to the individual to choose which rules apply and which not.
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I think the good thing in your situation is that eBay is a buyers platform not a sellers platform. They do everything they can to protect the buyer , so that fee you are paying ( indirectly as the seller will put the cost to cover) is you paying for protection.
As a seller you would prefer to do it outside of eBay i think as eBay is not your friend.
As a seller you would prefer to do it outside of eBay i think as eBay is not your friend.
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Doesn't paypal already offer protection? it's inclined to buyers in the same way (and run by ebay for a long time, too).
In the end ebay also runs on ads, and when direct bank transfer/local pickup is available it can't tap into sales money anyways.
In the end ebay also runs on ads, and when direct bank transfer/local pickup is available it can't tap into sales money anyways.
- seebart
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Yes if you paid via PayPal its "insured".
- bhtooefr
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eBay just sold PayPal, and it's all over PayPal every time you log in that they're becoming separate from eBay.
- Muirium
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They announced the split in a real hurry after Apple Pay was unveiled. What a coincidence!
http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/10/05/eb ... ent-again/
eBay remains a powerful monopoly. It's where all the auctions are at, you're stupid to go anywhere else. (Sadly.) But PayPal's related field is getting invaded fast by bigger players than eBay can handle. Time to ditch that acquisition. So they did. PayPal will fail in a few years from now. Sell sell sell!
http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/10/05/eb ... ent-again/
eBay remains a powerful monopoly. It's where all the auctions are at, you're stupid to go anywhere else. (Sadly.) But PayPal's related field is getting invaded fast by bigger players than eBay can handle. Time to ditch that acquisition. So they did. PayPal will fail in a few years from now. Sell sell sell!
- bhtooefr
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The nasty thing if PayPal goes away, however, is that the US doesn't have a functional equivalent to SEPA, and we use PayPal to do that instead.
Here, when you tell the average American to make a wire transfer, the first thing they think of is Nigerian scammers. If they can think past that and go to the bank to make one, they'll get a $15-30 bill for the transfer (I once intended to do a wire transfer, and found that the PayPal fees on a huge transfer were quite a bit cheaper).
Without PayPal as a wire transfer substitute, most likely, people will have to resort to sending paper checks through the mail, which is what you did when you won an eBay auction before PayPal was a thing.
Here, when you tell the average American to make a wire transfer, the first thing they think of is Nigerian scammers. If they can think past that and go to the bank to make one, they'll get a $15-30 bill for the transfer (I once intended to do a wire transfer, and found that the PayPal fees on a huge transfer were quite a bit cheaper).
Without PayPal as a wire transfer substitute, most likely, people will have to resort to sending paper checks through the mail, which is what you did when you won an eBay auction before PayPal was a thing.