I wish they would selfexterminate as soon as they are sold over $50dirge wrote:I wish clickclack would make a few thousand and sell them on elitekeyboards. It would make him money and the people that buy 50 thinking they can resell them and fleece others will get burned big.
Gah! It’s *exactly* like the stock market in that respect — all speculation over things that have nominal tangible value. A stock is only worth what it’s worth because people are willing to pay that amount for it; it has no real value in and of itself, except perhaps its accompanying dividend (if it even offers one). In that respect, stocks are almost *exactly* the same as a Clacks: driven up in price only because of speculation and a willingness to pay insane prices by parties involved.dirge wrote:Please don't say things like "market value" it's not stock or anything with real value. It's 20 or so idiots that like keyboards swapping bits of plastic for crazy sums of money.
Err, since when did shares have real value?! In fact, the comparison is apt - the price of an illiquid stock can be very volatile. And that's my point - the best way to get to a sane value is to encourage more people to sell them, not less!! Calling them idiots at every opportunity really isn't helping anydirge wrote:Please don't say things like "market value" it's not stock or anything with real value. It's 20 or so idiots that like keyboards swapping bits of plastic for crazy sums of money.
People who buy them just to make profit suck.dirge wrote:I wish clickclack would make a few thousand and sell them on elitekeyboards. It would make him money and the people that buy 50 thinking they can resell them and fleece others will get burned big.
Using a term like that kinda helps support the argument that its acceptable practice to charge each other crazy amounts because one sold at a similar price. the community here and at geekhack isn't massive, if everything revolves around trying to get the highest price. It will spread beyond clacks and we'll have scalpers picking up every eBay auction for anything close to interesting. With the sole purpose of reselling at profit. MX or Topre?Soarer wrote:I should stick my candycorn cursors on ebay, just to troll you guys
I'd give you $400 for them if they were Topre 
Why 2 grand?!dirge wrote:That's not silly, its UK ISO layout!Soarer wrote:This is getting silly...
But boards can look busy fast. That's about 2 grand you're typing on!
elitekeyboards is already charging 6000% markup.Soarer wrote:Err, since when did shares have real value?! In fact, the comparison is apt - the price of an illiquid stock can be very volatile. And that's my point - the best way to get to a sane value is to encourage more people to sell them, not less!! Calling them idiots at every opportunity really isn't helping anydirge wrote:Please don't say things like "market value" it's not stock or anything with real value. It's 20 or so idiots that like keyboards swapping bits of plastic for crazy sums of money.
People who buy them just to make profit suck.dirge wrote:I wish clickclack would make a few thousand and sell them on elitekeyboards. It would make him money and the people that buy 50 thinking they can resell them and fleece others will get burned big.
So the possibly large sums of money doesn't overcome the laziness? Now I'm wondering what you do for a livinglitster wrote:I have a bunch I can sell for good money. I don't even like those CC caps, I never use them. But I am too lazy to sell them.
j/k
Speculator!litster wrote:I don't even like those CC caps, I never use them.
