Soldato
No trading outside the MM please.All new and unused? How much do you want for them? Trust me
Mods sort this guy out...
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** ITS BACK AND ITS BETTER - MICROSOFT CLASSIC INTELLIMOUSE **
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Mods sort this guy out...
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Don
7 years ago, but point taken
Just think that £45 is a lot of money for something that hasn't really moved on, and is essentially just trading of the shape/success of the original.
I had one back in the day, and replaced it when it died 6 months or so ago - for £45 or even less, there are a lot of good options.
Even so - sure it will still sell like hot cakes
If I seriously thought he'd sell them to us (let alone the business allowing me to buy from an independent trader with no rights of return), and the transaction was to sell on the OcUK website, then that would be a point of law I'd have to take to the Supreme Moderator Court of Appeal...
Soldato
All new and unused? How much do you want for them? Trust me
Sadly it's council stock so will sit for another decade or so until used or disposed of
Associate
Only if you think "they" broke it so you'd have to buy another.
If they are the same or better than the original in every important way I would - I rarely get more than 2 years out of a mouse and find few mice that really work for me in gaming. I spent quite a bit on backup WMO 1.1a but fortunately the Zowie FK series is a complete replacement for me.
Yeah, this is the reason the early Steelseries mice looked like Intellimouse rip offs, because they essentially were. When my Intellimouse died I moved to the Steelseries Sensai as it was basically an improved version of the same mouse so felt identical.
Because a product that retailed for £25-35 over a decade ago now costing £45 for the new version isn't really a surprise it's the norm, so it's bizarre people are being surprised by it. Perhaps they didn't use high end mice back then so only ever saw them in bargain bins for <£20 after they had become obsolete (which seems correct looking at some of these threads).
Nothing mate. The team I deal with who bring Microsoft in to distribution in the UK (not Microsoft but a third party) usually require a hell of an amount of coaxing to get anything done. I'll chase them up today.
Cheers.
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I don't know how much it cost, but my Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 (barcode datecode is 44th week 2002) has been used near daily since... well, 2002. Fabulous thing it is.
This will be a must buy for me, along with a new XXL mouse mat as my current one is now beyond worn out. Just need to add it to the list with a decent monitor (still) . I never have found a mouse I liked as much as the IM3.0 but I couldn't stand the styling of the Steelseries ones, especially the logo.
. I never have found a mouse I liked as much as the IM3.0 but I couldn't stand the styling of the Steelseries ones, especially the logo.
they were £8 . can remember buying one brand new trying it and throwing in the bin.
. now if they only brought back the logitech 510s/518sthey were £8 . can remember buying one brand new trying it and throwing in the bin.
Now the 518 is the better idea! Still rocking mine:
Not sure what I will do if it ever dies!
Lol, yeah I'm gonna call shenanigans on that, maybe broken ones on eBay were. I can't believe any shop would sell a £30+ mouse for £8 even as dead stock, that's would have been below used prices at the time. Hell they still cost literally at least £8 used today.
it was £8 the only reason i brought it was because 90 percent of all the "pros" back in the day used them.thought hmm its cheap ill give one a try.tried it then binned it and went back to a razer diamond back
yeah if logitech brought back the 510s/518 they would be popular. id instantly buy 3/4 of em. still use them now.
yeah if logitech brought back the 510s/518 they would be popular. id instantly buy 3/4 of em. still use them now.
Dunno when Dg bought but for a bit after production stopped you could find the WMO and IMO for under £10 new in some places that had "dead" stock and I definitely didn't pay more than £20 for the IMO I bought to try which was when they became popular.
EDIT: Looking on google quite a few people claim they bought at £8-10 for OEM stock (non-retail boxed) new and moaning when they went to replace them and all that was available was the retail stock at £20.
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Doing a bit more digging you are right - anyone buying £8 at retail back in the early 2000s must have been talking about the 1.1 version. I figured out the OEM side of it - back in the day you could buy "system builder" OEM stock of MS products by buying additional hardware - you could buy pretty much any MS mouse and OEM copy of the OS for about £8-10 for the mouse and £20-30 for the OS - in ~2010 when people were moaning about having to replace their original mouse the 3.0 was selling at an average of £21.
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