The peculiar tale of a short shipped keyboard

Wingklip · 28 Mar 2017, 23:49

In January, I ordered a certain IBM keyboard.

Tracking worked all the way to Australia, where it went off the radar after passing customs. Having contacted the post offices and couriers responsible, I have since gotten a refund from eBay guarantee.

It has been two months since that sad, sad day.

But yesterday I just found out out of curiosity for a certain search I was following, thinking, Sydney, Australia? I wonder what such a rare specimen is doing here? I looked.

And sure enough in the bottom right there was a damaged key the exact same as it was in the original listing. Even the screen had an identical scratch. The dents looked identical too. Today I am going to submit the case to police, having notified the original seller and stayed up to one am compiling a case for it using, well, paint.net.

I will keep this spicy meme updated. Just pray I don't get shanked

Techno Trousers · 28 Mar 2017, 23:51

Wow, keyboard thieves? Really?

taylorswiftttttt · 29 Mar 2017, 01:00

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Chyros · 29 Mar 2017, 01:23

SCREEN? On an IBM keyboard? Oo

Wingklip · 29 Mar 2017, 02:19

Chyros wrote: SCREEN? On an IBM keyboard? Oo

Portable PC

Not saying details, because it's best I report it first before I leak it out. Will pix after report. Damn seller writing the value on the box xd

Cattus_D · 29 Mar 2017, 08:45

Ouch! Makes you wonder who did it. A courier?

Wingklip · 29 Mar 2017, 09:41

Cattus_D wrote: Ouch! Makes you wonder who did it. A courier?

I'm thinking a sorter. Not a particularly smart one either.

"S h o r T s h I p p E d'

Wingklip · 29 Mar 2017, 14:25

Police gave me more cancer than the Australian sun in 60 years

"Not enough evidence xdddddd" "Could be a different one xdddddd" "Just a single scratch doesn't prove anything xdddddd"(when there were 6 places where it was completely identical in anomalies.

They're lazy pigs these bunch in my suburb. I'm buying it tomorrow. Street justice time

Wodan · 29 Mar 2017, 14:56

Guess you will need a lawyer if you want to get things moving ...

taylorswiftttttt · 29 Mar 2017, 19:13

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kbdfr · 29 Mar 2017, 19:48

Wingklip wrote: […] I have since gotten a refund from eBay guarantee. […]

Perhaps you should contact them, after all they have paid for it and could be interested in catching the thief.

Wingklip · 30 Mar 2017, 02:43

Can't contact the guy somehow but I have bought the item. Waiting for it to arrive before going in to press answers from him.

Inb4 ships it in the original box naniiiiiii

Wingklip · 02 Apr 2017, 16:49

It's shipped. Time to blackmail the guy into telling me the origins of it or he's getting negative feedback lol

fohat · 02 Apr 2017, 17:23

Wingklip wrote: It's shipped. Time to blackmail the guy into telling me the origins of it or he's getting negative feedback lol

Don't do that, he will flame you with negative feedback, too.

Maintain the high ground and press every available legal and moral remedy.

http://www.ebayblacklist.co/

Daniel Beardsmore · 02 Apr 2017, 18:54

Wow, that site's like stepping back into 1994 again.

rsbseb · 02 Apr 2017, 20:23

Daniel Beardsmore wrote: Wow, that site's like stepping back into 1994 again.

That's what I thought as well.

Wingklip · 02 Apr 2017, 22:50

fohat wrote:
Wingklip wrote: It's shipped. Time to blackmail the guy into telling me the origins of it or he's getting negative feedback lol
Don't do that, he will flame you with negative feedback, too.

Maintain the high ground and press every available legal and moral remedy.

http://www.ebayblacklist.co/

Of course he's going to have no case against it though. Got to ask for feedback first because sellers usually don't bother

Wingklip · 04 Apr 2017, 23:55

Item is here! It's the IBM P70. A lot of you might have seen it in eBay on sale last year, being an American listing.

It's exactly the same with the same marks everywhere on the device.

Why this

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TFW he even loses the . Key despite it being in the photo lol

mike52787 · 05 Apr 2017, 00:05

Plate spring! nice score, even with all the trials and tribulations you went through to get it.

cumwagondeluxe · 05 Apr 2017, 00:36

Let us know what you think!

I have the opportunity to grab one, though it'd be like $220CAD shipped or so. On one hand, I'm tempted to for collection purposes + how rare they seem (at least sold separately from their intended system), but on the other hand I read a review on here the other day that claimed while they felt good on normal presses, fast typing causes them to turn into mush due to the way the switch works so now I'm pretty on the fence about it until I can get more opinions, at least at the current pricepoint.

Wingklip · 05 Apr 2017, 03:40

cumwagondeluxe wrote: Let us know what you think!

I have the opportunity to grab one, though it'd be like $220CAD shipped or so. On one hand, I'm tempted to for collection purposes + how rare they seem (at least sold separately from their intended system), but on the other hand I read a review on here the other day that claimed while they felt good on normal presses, fast typing causes them to turn into mush due to the way the switch works so now I'm pretty on the fence about it until I can get more opinions, at least at the current pricepoint.

Hm... The tactility of the switch isn't the best but I have confirmed that at least the 5576-Keyboard1 has NKRO.

You could use it for gaming but it just didn't feel too right for it - after all, it has a spring on a plate spring. The only real issue I have with it is that it isn't particularly loud enough to be really confirming of each keystroke. Even on the IBM model F, because it is nearly the same weight as the plate spring, I need to actually feedback my microphone with my headset on to actually hear them well. It's one of those boards like the IBM 3178 that makes you question a little if you actually depressed the key all the way or not,

or maybe it's just me typing too lightly

it's really fun to type on and quite a good deal more audible than the 5576-Keyboard1

When I do feed it back through my microphone though, I get WPM's of 70+, otherwise I find that I get constant mistakes

Wingklip · 05 Apr 2017, 07:19

Lol'ed

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When it wasn't even in the country last year

Wingklip · 10 Apr 2017, 12:37

Seller sent the key, arrived in a thousand pieces

Who even posts without the slightest of packing wrap?

At least now I can repair the broken alps switch without dying to find another spring xd

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He was an amiably agreeable person. Even through continuous pressing he wouldn't provide the location he obtained it from, an obvious contradiction as he stated he obtained it "last year at a fete"

He seems like a guy who really needs that $550 though, so I'll leave it at this. I'm good with a $100 refund for the broken key. After all, this means I only paid a grand total of $100 for this IBM P70.

God be with him

please don't cause him any trouble guys.