What is a fair prices for NOS SKCM Blue alps?

Vendetta

11 Feb 2022, 19:21

Just wondering what people would consider fair prices for new old stock blue alps?

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hellothere

11 Feb 2022, 19:53

Inside or outside of a keyboard? What kind of keyboard? How many switches?

There's at least one person that sells a bag of between 40 and 100 switches on ebay US. You might want to check that out. I don't recall if he's selling NOS.

I see your post from yesterday and the pics of that one switch looks like it's never been soldered into a keyboard, so that does make me think NOS. However, it also makes me think that you didn't just happened to know someone to sell you a bunch of blue Alps switches :P

Vendetta

11 Feb 2022, 20:39

Outside of the keyboard, around 100 NOS blue alps switches. What would you say is a fair price for each switch in that regard? And yes, the photos weren't the best, but I can assure you they are blue!

hellothere wrote: 11 Feb 2022, 19:53 Inside or outside of a keyboard? What kind of keyboard? How many switches?

There's at least one person that sells a bag of between 40 and 100 switches on ebay US. You might want to check that out. I don't recall if he's selling NOS.

I see your post from yesterday and the pics of that one switch looks like it's never been soldered into a keyboard, so that does make me think NOS. However, it also makes me think that you didn't just happened to know someone to sell you a bunch of blue Alps switches :P

SK-8K

12 Feb 2022, 16:53

I think at least $3 USD each for NOS switches.
It is very uncommon to find any unused Blue ALPS switch so perhaps more. You have found incredible pieces of computer history.
I'd say we should hold onto a couple and make 3D scans of all the parts. That would be the first step in creating replicas.

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