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Accidently won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard on ebay

PostPosted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:12 pm
by palmheads
Dunno if any of you lot have done this before (I assume i'm not the only dumb one...)

You see some vintage gear on trademe/ebay etc. You think "I'd quite like that!". The amount is wayyyy too high, but you put an incremental bid ($1 more) somewhere near the end of the auction, assuming someone will come in and bid & beat you....and noone does!! haha

So won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard. Looks exactly like this (same colour etc)
http://www.timexsinclair.org/unsorted/Z ... yboard.jpg

Payed wayyy too much. But instead of being gutted, I can't wait until it arrives!

cheers
Daryn

Re: Accidently won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard on ebay

PostPosted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:09 pm
by tezza
It actually looks quite cool. Love the blue.

Re: Accidently won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard on ebay

PostPosted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:15 pm
by acsi
I was watching that one. Have been looking for a while but just can't bring myself to fork out the going rate.

Would be interested in how you find it.

Re: Accidently won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard on ebay

PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:13 am
by kevman3d
Looks awesome - was that this one?

Re: Accidently won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard on ebay

PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:37 am
by palmheads
kevman3d wrote:Looks awesome - was that this one?


Yup thats the one!

Wifey shakes her head. haha

cheers
Daryn

Re: Accidently won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard on ebay

PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:13 am
by kevman3d
Your lucky the shipping is pretty reasonable - everything I tend to see on eBay that's cheap ends up having some insanely high shipping price slapped on it (I recall a Ti99/4a with a 'buy now' of US$29, and a shipping of US$160 last year) :roll: