A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
PLEASE don't tell us to send it back to you in the US because then it'll mean this purchase starts climbing into costings similar to GON-like territory, only his keyboards are absolutely perfect upon arrival.
i'm from Germany, my shipping is $33.50 and i've to pay 19% customs. How much are shipping cost and customs for you?
The case you describe happened to me once and MD covered all the costs of extra shipping, but i lost the 19% customs, this can't be claimed back here in Germany. But i had the choice of getting a new keyboard instead of getting my money refunded.
If i would have taken a new keyboard we have the opportunity by special declaration that this is an exchange, so i wouldn't had to pay customs twice.
Of course, i don't know how this is handled in Australia.
Unbelievable how a moron like this got himself into power here......
It's the weight of the keyboard that shall incur this price markup by Australia Post.