matt3o received MTNU wob, beige and susu and will do a quick livestream of them later today
He posted a picture of the boxes on his discord
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No one should be paying full price for keycaps from Vala since they seem to do sales every other week it feels like lol
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Both the beige set and black set look really good. Not a fan of the color for the green accent with the beige, but I just won’t use it. Susu looks nice. Definitely more of a vintage vibe with that warmer gray and yellow legends. I still like the MT3 Susu, too. The warping on the space bar does seem acceptable, but dang, they’re going to get roasted on reddit for it not being flat.
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I don’t have a Norbaforce anymore but this is pretty cool. I suppose the ultimate “stock” Norbaforce would be a Veracity steel w/ the wool dampener plus the SS back-plate and this riser to prop it up. I think that’d be around $2k? (admittedly the Veracity Steel would be doing most of the work on the price).
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It’s funny because the Norbaforce already has risers. I honestly think it takes away from the look of the board.
Not sure about Norbaforce Riser but I do think similar accessory with replaceable inserts of different materials and patterns could significantly enhance keyboard acoustics at reasonable cost and convenience.
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GMK Hyperfuse is back … and the base kit is $224 USD 
EDIT: My bad, the website was set correctly to CAD for once. It’s still 159 USD like the other websites.
Funny that they are doing this now that there are a million clones out there.
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I saw that today too. But I’m confused. This is also a group buy listed on typemachina. Oco/Typemachina is in the US, right? Why does the US have 2 vendors? Maybe Kono is working as the Canadaland merchant?
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Kono’s shipping to Canada is alot more expensive than Oco, so I don’t know about that. Having these 2 vendors running this set feels like choosing your poison. My first thought was maybe it’s just to ease the load for Oco? But then like who still buys GMK at this price in 2023 unless it’s less than 100-120 USD? Who still wants to buy from vendors that are incapable of doing their job? Confusing.
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Need stackable switch containers on the cheap?
Allcaps has theirs at 50% off right now, putting them at a ridiculous <$2 USD each!
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SGI Alps keyboards at the VCF swap meet. One with white alps and one with undamped cream alps. Two hours left at the meet…
$70 each. Pained me not to buy but I have too much stuff!
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Love the granite one.
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These usually sell pretty quickly on eBay for $200-$250. I’ve been watching and bidding for about 5 years. Lol. But I would never pay that price for one unless it was in mint condition. Like you, I own too many things. And I actually own 3 of these already. $70 is a really fair price and a good deal since you wouldn’t have to pay extra for shipping. 
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The switches clearly needed to be cleaned which clinched it for me. If the switches had been less scratchy I would have picked up at least one for sure.
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holy crap. They’re about to go under 
? Well I do seem to notice that a lot of incoming keycaps are through Vala. I guess they need to move product to make room?
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For sure, they need some TLC. But you could pull the keycaps and wash them and resell for $150 in a few hours. But then again I have a lot of things I “could” sell… but I’m too lazy to work with people.
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ngl I didn’t even notice it said that they’re going on clearance indefinitely O_o
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Vala has always struck me as a very odd outfit. I’d never seen one company take on so many group buys. It was enough that I’ve honestly avoided them because it just seemed sketchy. That said, they’re still here, so something must be working as far as their business plan goes.
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