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Realforce R2 TKL Ivory 55g. Modded with MX sliders - new keyboard and new MX Deskeys and Novatouch sliders.
£299 £199 +delivery.

Added second board.

Added another r2 Realforce.
Now, when I have beloved R1 55g, I can sell all my R2 keyboards.

I have Deskeys mx sliders, if someone would like to buy one of those keyboards with MX sliders mounted, please let me know.

price drop

People don't like R2?

What are you asking for the Set of MX Sliders ? Do you have enough to bring back a fully gutted novatouch ?

guidemetothelight wrote: ↑

24 Feb 2023, 15:51

What are you asking for the Set of MX Sliders ? Do you have enough to bring back a fully gutted novatouch ?

I'm not selling mx sliders separately - I'm offering Realforce keyboard with those installed if someone wants.

phinix wrote: ↑

24 Feb 2023, 20:22

I'm not selling mx sliders separately - I'm offering Realforce keyboard with those installed if someone wants.

sorry , my bad, misunderstood your post.

guidemetothelight wrote: ↑

26 Feb 2023, 11:52

phinix wrote: ↑

24 Feb 2023, 20:22

I'm not selling mx sliders separately - I'm offering Realforce keyboard with those installed if someone wants.

sorry , my bad, misunderstood your post.

No worries

Added modded Realforce keyboard - I have mounted MX sliders in it. New Keyboard and sliders.

I sold, two left.
I wonder why these are not getting much love nowadays.
R3 is awful, R1 design was the best, but lots of people like R2 as well. no?

Your prices might have something to do with it.

In all honesty, I’m not sure an R1 or R2 is better, but as they’re not making R1 any more I’ll just keep mine so I don’t regret it.

Muirium wrote: ↑

09 Mar 2023, 13:24

Your prices might have something to do with it.

In all honesty, I’m not sure an R1 or R2 is better, but as they’re not making R1 any more I’ll just keep mine so I don’t regret it.

What prices would you suggest?

For example that modded R2 55g - I bought this keyboard of amazon, its brand new £290, then bought Deskeys sliders full pack, £120. So in total I paid £410. Minus caps, I'm asking £299 for it.

The amount of money you spent on a thing isn’t necessarily relevant to the amount of money anyone else will pay for it.

What board did you sell already? Was it the cheapest one?

Muirium wrote: ↑

09 Mar 2023, 16:38

The amount of money you spent on a thing isn’t necessarily relevant to the amount of money anyone else will pay for it.

What board did you sell already? Was it the cheapest one?

I sold R2 55g, not the cheapest one, £200

Someone here is selling black R2 45g for around £230.
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=119581.0;topicseen

This is common price for lightly used/open box R2. I'm selling mine for £180, sold 55g for £200, so I think £299 for new 55g modded with mx sliders is very good price.

I see why you're listing for the price you are - when you buy these things retail and then add deskeys' very expensive sliders, it's not exactly outrageous that you're wanting 299.

However, R2s can be had for 140GBP brand new from an ebayer I've had good experiences with:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393777368517

They are also a lot less popular and in demand than the R1s, and no longer have the exciting new factor since the release of the much prettier Realforce R3.

I think it's also worth pointing out that modded Topre, for some reason, does not maintain its value very well, and rarely goes up in price unless someone wants exactly what you've created.

wobbled wrote: ↑

10 Mar 2023, 00:27

I see why you're listing for the price you are - when you buy these things retail and then add deskeys' very expensive sliders, it's not exactly outrageous that you're wanting 299.

However, R2s can be had for 140GBP brand new from an ebayer I've had good experiences with:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393777368517

They are also a lot less popular and in demand than the R1s, and no longer have the exciting new factor since the release of the much prettier Realforce R3.

I think it's also worth pointing out that modded Topre, for some reason, does not maintain its value very well, and rarely goes up in price unless someone wants exactly what you've created.

That R2 is 45g, widely available, 55g is more expensive, cause its not available that easily, you can order it from US amazon, paying extra customs fees like I did.

Do you think R3 is prettier?
They do both designs,new R3 with battery and BT, but also R2 design. I think new R3 is ugly, but thasts my opinion.

Kinda tempted at that price, honestly…

phinix wrote: ↑

10 Mar 2023, 11:59

wobbled wrote: ↑

10 Mar 2023, 00:27

I see why you're listing for the price you are - when you buy these things retail and then add deskeys' very expensive sliders, it's not exactly outrageous that you're wanting 299.

However, R2s can be had for 140GBP brand new from an ebayer I've had good experiences with:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393777368517

They are also a lot less popular and in demand than the R1s, and no longer have the exciting new factor since the release of the much prettier Realforce R3.

I think it's also worth pointing out that modded Topre, for some reason, does not maintain its value very well, and rarely goes up in price unless someone wants exactly what you've created.

That R2 is 45g, widely available, 55g is more expensive, cause its not available that easily, you can order it from US amazon, paying extra customs fees like I did.

Do you think R3 is prettier?
They do both designs,new R3 with battery and BT, but also R2 design. I think new R3 is ugly, but thasts my opinion.

The R2 45g is indeed easier to get ahold of without imports, but if I really wanted 55g for whatever reason, I could import directly using sendico:
https://www.sendico.com/yahoo/item/e-pl ... 0299340929
that's 146GBP, and on sendico I can under-declare value to avoid taxation, and they always have the best shipping rates (at least for me). I recently bought a Libertouch through sendico and it wasn't much more than 15GBP shipped.

But yeh as for looks, I greatly prefer the R3. The rounded corners are a nice throwback to the R1 boards. The bluetooth connectivity is really ideal for a clean desk, and newer Topre products now seem to come much better tuned than they used to.

Got any similarly sweet links for R3?

Muirium wrote: ↑

10 Mar 2023, 20:00

Got any similarly sweet links for R3?

Nothing amazing, just a Rakuten listing
https://www.sendico.com/rakuten/item/realforce:10000034

211GBP - expensive af, but still cheaper than the one on ebay for 404GBP

wobbled wrote: ↑

10 Mar 2023, 20:51

Muirium wrote: ↑

10 Mar 2023, 20:00

Got any similarly sweet links for R3?

Nothing amazing, just a Rakuten listing
https://www.sendico.com/rakuten/item/realforce:10000034

211GBP - expensive af, but still cheaper than the one on ebay for 404GBP

You said new topre now comes better tuned. Did you try R3?

phinix wrote: ↑

11 Mar 2023, 13:00

wobbled wrote: ↑

10 Mar 2023, 20:51

Muirium wrote: ↑

10 Mar 2023, 20:00

Got any similarly sweet links for R3?

Nothing amazing, just a Rakuten listing
https://www.sendico.com/rakuten/item/realforce:10000034

211GBP - expensive af, but still cheaper than the one on ebay for 404GBP

You said new topre now comes better tuned. Did you try R3?

Haven’t tried it yet myself, but current gen Snow Hybrid HHKBs are very well tuned, and from what I’ve heard about R3, they seem to be very much the same

wobbled wrote: ↑

11 Mar 2023, 14:12

phinix wrote: ↑

11 Mar 2023, 13:00

wobbled wrote: ↑

10 Mar 2023, 20:51

Nothing amazing, just a Rakuten listing
https://www.sendico.com/rakuten/item/realforce:10000034

211GBP - expensive af, but still cheaper than the one on ebay for 404GBP

You said new topre now comes better tuned. Did you try R3?

Haven’t tried it yet myself, but current gen Snow Hybrid HHKBs are very well tuned, and from what I’ve heard about R3, they seem to be very much the same

Sounds tempting
..but I cant take anymore HHKBs... I had like 5 in last 6 months

They key is to keep them. I’ve only ever had 3 pass through my hands, the first was a very tantalising shipping proxy…

price drop on Frog

price drop on Realforce. Brand new modded with MX sliders.