Accidently won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard on ebay

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Accidently won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard on ebay

Postby palmheads on Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:12 pm

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!

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Re: Accidently won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard on ebay

Postby tezza on Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:09 pm

It actually looks quite cool. Love the blue.
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Re: Accidently won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard on ebay

Postby acsi on Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:15 pm

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.
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Re: Accidently won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard on ebay

Postby kevman3d on Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:13 am

Looks awesome - was that this one?
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Re: Accidently won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard on ebay

Postby palmheads on Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:37 am

kevman3d wrote:Looks awesome - was that this one?


Yup thats the one!

Wifey shakes her head. haha

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Re: Accidently won a Memotech ZX81 keyboard on ebay

Postby kevman3d on Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:13 am

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:
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