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If you are thinking about buying a mechanical keyboard and want us to help you choose, format your post as follows.
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>Budget
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>Location (continent at least)
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>Preferred switch type
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>Layout
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>Form factor
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>Backlight
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>Previous/current keyboards
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Mechanical keyboards aren't cheap. Stock prices start at around $70 for cheaper boards and can go well over $250. There are other costs to consider, too; shipping to non-US countries can be fairly expensive.
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Mechanical keyboards aren't cheap. 
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Stock prices start at around 70$ for cheaper boards (40$ if you want knockoff switches like Kailh) and can go over 250$. If you live in Europe add ~30$ to the price (+ possible customs and shipping costs).
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3) Preferred switch type
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There are plenty of switch guides and comparisons on the internet, use your search engine of choice. If you want some more guidance, refer to http://i.imgur.com/5uKCsvv.png for cherry switches or https://i.imgur.com/ghNc1vg.png for enthusiast switches. If you're not sure, at least clarify if you want linear, tactile, or clicky switches. Other considerations include silent switches and optical switches.
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3) Preffered switch type
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There are plenty of switch guides and comparisons, take a look at this chart (http://i.imgur.com/5uKCsvv.png) or use a search engine of your choice. If you're not sure about a certain switch at least specify if you want tactile or linear, clicky or silent and hard or soft.
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Mostly ISO or ANSI. Be aware of the fact that the selection of keyboards and aftermarket keycaps (especially cheap sets) are far greater for ANSI. 
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5) Form factor
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Mostly ISO or ANSI. Be aware of the fact that the selection of keyboards and especially aftermarket keycaps is far greater for ANSI.
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- 100%: Full keyboard with function keys, navigation section and numpad.
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- 80% or TKL: Usually without numpad, sometimes without the navigation section instead.
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- 75%: Slightly more compact than 80% by excluding some less-used keys.
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- 100% - full keyboard with function keys, navigation section and numpad,
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- 65%: Has arrow keys and some navigation keys, but with function keys on a layer.
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- 80% or TKL (tenkeyless) - usually without numpad, but there are also keyboards without arrows instead,
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- 60%: Numpad, function and navigation keys are all on layers.
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- 60% - no numpad, function and navigation keys are on a function layer.
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There are countless other formats, but these are the most common for prebuilt boards.
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- 65-75% - different variations of previously described.
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6) Backlight
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Options here include per-key RGB, whole-board RGB, solid-colour lighting or no backlight. Additionally, some boards have perimeter lighting.
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Do you want LEDs.
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7) Previous/current keyboard
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Include this if you want a board similar to your last one (or perhaps the exact opposite?)