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Just had a phone call from our SEN Deparment saying that key have fallen off the laptops? (more like picked off im guessing)

 

Anyone have ideas on where i can get a keyboard from? Not having much luck with amazon searches atm.

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I have loads of spare keyboards i keep for keys. If you have a decent photo i'll see if i have one i can send. If not ebay for single keys. It works out much cheaper than a whole keyboard.
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Obviously both those websites are probably list prices (who knows what they actually charge you). But charging £60 for a keyboard for a laptop is shocking when they can be got from eBay etc for less then £10.

 

I know that a lot of schools won't allow eBay use but surely you could petty cash buying it from there and saving the school nearly £50 (on face value).

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Obviously both those websites are probably list prices (who knows what they actually charge you). But charging £60 for a keyboard for a laptop is shocking when they can be got from eBay etc for less then £10.

 

I know that a lot of schools won't allow eBay use but surely you could petty cash buying it from there and saving the school nearly £50 (on face value).

 

I just done this with a IBM T43 keyboard. Silly money on amazon and other places. Ebay was £14. Spoke to finance department and they are alright with it,

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Obviously both those websites are probably list prices (who knows what they actually charge you). But charging £60 for a keyboard for a laptop is shocking when they can be got from eBay etc for less then £10.

 

I know that a lot of schools won't allow eBay use but surely you could petty cash buying it from there and saving the school nearly £50 (on face value).

 

I do ebay purchases on expenses, but sometimes not even ebay has an item I need... I have a very particular type of HP DM1 and no-one on ebay sells a keyboard for it, I can get a euro keyboard, or a US, but not a UK. Notebook repair were the only people who had any. (I needed 12 of them) they marked them down from £34 to £26.50 each which was comparable with £24.99 for the (albeit wrong model number) ebay ones. Yhey only had 9 on the shelf, and sent them DPD the same day for next day delivery, the balance of the order turned up a week later on Fedex from somewhere in the Netherlands. As far as I can tell they are genuine as well!

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Take the keyboard off and get the part number from the back of it. Put part number into ebay and tick 'Include description' in search bar. You'll probably find it's a part used for many models and possibly different makes of laptop too.

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