False Russian / UK keyboards : eBay Guides

Beware of sellers selling dual Russian/English keyboards. They are nearly always US layout so expect many of characters to be either missing or/and completely in the wrong place. Oh, and say goodbye to the £ sign too! You'll have to tell Windows that you are using a US keyboard too otherwise many of the keys wont match up, and again.... UK specific keys will be missing.

One seller in particular, "valeriakomarova",  is selling them claiming the following:

SPECIALLY MADE AND IMPORTED FOR RUSSIAN SPEAKERS IN THE UK

Actually they are not "specially made" at all. They are standard US keyboards and luckily if you look closely at the picture you can make this out by the missing £ sign.

I emailed the seller about this and asked to make it clearer that they are not UK spec, after an initial attempt to fob me off, a following email contained the following:

1 mind your own business.
2 get a life of your own and stop interfering with others, especially as its none of your business.
3 dont tell me what to do.
4 dont bother replying as it will simply be deleted.
bye bye

I doubt that the seller is really Russian at all as we're much more pleasant than that usually! We call such people either "matroshka" or "muzhik". 

As I nearly bought one before realizing that it wasn't "SPECIALLY MADE AND IMPORTED FOR RUSSIAN SPEAKERS IN THE UK" after all, I figured that I was in fact justified in asking the seller to make it clearer for genuine UK users.

Incidently, using cyrillic stickers is fine. I've had a set that cost me £1 for four years on this very laptop that I'm on now. I simply wanted a full size keyboard but I just bought another UK one for £5 and a sticker set again. It was cheaper too!

Good luck and keep an eye out for Matroshka!