I have a wired CST trackball mouse that is about 10 years old. Built like a tank. I believe they go by the name of "L-Trac" now (as the company was sold).

They are a little pricey, ~$200, but I love mine (so much that I bought an extra). Also, they use a pool-sized ball, so I replaced mine with a green ball.

Have been happy w/ an Elecom not having found Kensington or Logitech options that I was happy with.

When you say "they", do you mean Logitech or Big Mouse in general?

Because I have wired trackballs from both Logitech and Kensington, and have for many years. You can pry my Kensington Orbit from my cold, dead hand.

Logitech specifically. They haven't made a wired trackball in some time, as far as I can tell. Their only options are AA battery or rechargeable. I'd rather not have to futz with batteries at all on my desktop computer

I found that wired trackballs with scrollwheels no longer seem to exist. I bought a wired trackball without a scrollwheel and absolutely hate it.

Yeah, that's the one I bought. It's nothing like a scroll wheel.

Oh, oh. You mean the actual little upright wheel thing. Sorry.

Maybe someone is in the pocket of big mouse.

https://xkcd.com/2130/

Who is "they"? Perixx seems to be still selling wired trackballs.

As far as I can see it, they sell only wired vertical mice. Trackballs are all wireless.

https://perixx.com/collections/mice?filter.v.t.shopify.conne...

The PERIMICE-520, right there on that page that you pointed to, is a wired trackball. I know because I have one beside me right now with the wire going across the desk. (-:

Now I see...they sell the normal tiltable trackball as vertical.

Thank you for pointing that out.

Perixx arranges things somewhat differently on the U.K./E.U. version of its WWW site.

* https://eu.perixx.com/collections/trackball

Which would make a statement that "they no longer make wired trackballs" a falsehood. So likely not whatever "they" basscomm had in mind, if you think about it.