+1 to intelli78's post on this thread; I could not have said it better.



Some of these comments are highly unethical and rude. Return fraud as suggested by Berserk's now redacted commentary?



There is a lot of ill will from some of you, but I won't be bullied into selling rare stuff for a song. My stuff sells within a couple months of listing it and I'm fine with setting a price and being patient. Feel free to disregard my posts if you are offended by someone asking for a price reflective of supply and demand. If there were others out there then my price would reflect that.



If you want the item, you can buy it. Otherwise there is no deception here - what's pictured is the item up for sale. The price is the price. Plus I've USB converted it with xwhatsit's controller and ANSI modified it. This unit requires no hardware modification to start typing on it - just plug in the USB cable and configure the spare keys to your liking.



I have something that's virtually one of a kind and I am free to advertise and sell it. The highest end equipment for any hobby is expensive: cars, photography, video production, music, computers, etc. If it doesn't sell I am happy to keep it. If someone wants to spend the $2,000 instead on a 15" MBP they'll use for a few years or a Canon DSLR "L" series lens for their photography hobby, that's fine too. And neither of those are rare. Those companies set the price for their goods and people who are willing to pay, pay.



No photographer would bully Canon saying you're crazy to charge $2,000 for one camera lens when cameras comes free with cell phones.



I haven't resold or "flipped" any keyboards from elecplus/Cindy or the GH seller of F107s. These are all acquired directly from IT recyclers/remarketers who buy up old technology and then resell them at a profit. I happen to have a number of recycler contacts just like elecplus and others and that has helped me save all these cool keyboards from the grinder. The ones I've found have been sitting in warehouses for decades and it is a miracle they were not tossed beforehand.



I was about to buy two APL Unsavers but the remarketer said their warehouse guys threw them in the garbage a year ago.



It is not unethical or shameful to promote what you're offering and write some paragraphs on the details, especially if it is a high-ticket item.



Auctions go to the highest bidder - everyone else is not willing to pay as much as that highest bidder and they do not win the item. So the item sells for what the highest bidder is willing to pay, not what most people are willing to pay for the item. Agreed I joined the forums recently and am far from a senior contributor. Just trimming down my collection. I paid a lot for these and don't want to give them away. My buyers know what they are buying. And you can have free shipping or make me an offer if you want. I sold my Industrial SSK's at $900 to $1,175 each. Isn't the F77 at least twice as rare as that?



The recyclers all check eBay now and see the high completed transactions for some IBM keyboards. They see some ergonomic and other rare Model M's sell for $500 to $1000 there. If I lowball them or insult their pricing as many of you seem to be doing here, they would just say "I'll just go sell it on eBay at the price these sell for there."