Thread: a serious axe

Time to Lower the Reserve!

this is the second time around for this one. I forget what the bids got to last time but the reserve wasn't met. I wonder how many time you can do that before nobody bids. There has to be diminishing returns. It amuses me that it is this high with no makers stamp.

I would have considered it, but I sold my canoe last year....

Originally Posted by RezDog

It amuses me that it is this high with no makers stamp.

And yet they have Wade & Butcher in the title.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

And yet they have Wade & Butcher in the title.

If that's the original coffin box that came with the razor, it's a W&B.

You could get a 210 mm Deba for less & it would be just as hard to shave with.

It has an unnaturally rough look to me. Maybe someone who knows razors could confirm (or deny) this and say why. As far as reserve, nothing surprises me any more on the Bay. The less a seller knows about razors or hones, the more likely something will look like it is being seen in a funhouse mirror.

I have never understood, and this is not just confined to razors, why Ebay sellers place high reserves and low starting prices. if a seller wants to make $400 (as might be the case with this razor), why does the seller not just start the bidding at the reserve price or put a BIN?

I understand that Ebay sellers want to get higher numbers of bids because it (1) increases interest and (2) might help it show up higher in search results (such as sort by number of bids). But at the end of the day, doesn't it put a damper on bidding once bidders see that there have been 41 bids, and a $365 price with reserve not met?

Even worse, it seems that reserves could prevent a bidder from actually paying a higher price to buy the razor. Let's assume that the highest bidder right now has his max bid entered at $500 (with the reserve at $400). Now, the problem here is that this bidder could not win the auction until a second buyer bid him up to the reserve threshold. At the same time, the reserve not met could discourage a second bidder from even trying to outbid the first one.

Originally Posted by WW243

It has an unnaturally rough look to me. Maybe someone who knows razors could confirm (or deny) this and say why.

Rust, grinding and polishing.