Amazon used keyboard woes
I probably should have seen this coming when I ordered a used anything off of Amazon. I have had luck in the past but now I am going to start double thinking before I try and order used from now on.
I ordered a Keychron K3V2 hot swappable keyboard that was supposed to come with Gateron Blue switches (Keychron Product Page). Instead what arrived at my door was the K3V1 with non-swappable red switches and the older style key caps. (Keychron Product Page)
Unfortunately I did not know that the switches were not swappable until I tried to do just that, and subsequently ended up breaking the switch bad enough that it will not go back together. At least I picked a key that I didn't care too much about to try and pop (Alt). So... Now I have no right side alt key, not the end of th world.
Thankfully after explaining what was up and what I tried to do and the state of the keyboard, Amazon has offered to refund it without me sending it back. Right now though it looks like they might not honor that as my account has not been credited and it states that I will get my refund when they receive the product. The rep on the chat said that I could ignore that though so we will see. I took a screenshot off the chat (See bottom of blog).
In other news - It seems that I do in fact enjoy Gateron Red switches.
