Thread: wade & butcher resale value!!! And funny story

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

"...Elmer Keith..."

Elmer Keith = .44mag

Originally Posted by prodigy

I sold one a while back, I expected 300$. Went for over 500! Happy day. Then I bought a 400$ nakayama so it's one addiction feeding another lol.

That's dope, you got pictures?

Wasn't W&B one of the biggest manufacturers of razors?
Assuming you know how to maintain a razor and you use it for say 20 years, you pay $500 that's $25 a year. 48 cents a week. Assuming you shave 5 times a week, around 9.6 cents a shave. Factor in they are increasing in value by my calculations around $75 per year, the same razor is now worth $2000. Subtract initial cost of razor, and you are earning 29 cents every time you shave... roughly...

Originally Posted by gssixgun

They don't make them anymore

70's and 80's Ford Mustangs that is

ps: who the heck would even want an 80's Mustang

A what... I'd rather have a chevette

Originally Posted by Grazor

Wasn't W&B one of the biggest manufacturers of razors?

They seemed to have been exported to the USA in vast numbers, judging by the frequency they pop up there. I have never seen too many of them on the UK ebay.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

some of you new guys just have to accept the simple fact you are late to the party

Huge W&B's, Filli's, DD, Henckels, Escher's, Nakayama, Coticules, etc: etc: all used to be much cheaper..

Never paid more then $30 for a W&B but then again SRP used to have 2800 members when I joined it, and it was about the only SR forum on the internet Times have changed the amount of people chasing the razors have grown but tens of thousands sooooooo the prices went up... Wow doesn't exactly take a economic genius to figure that out

I had no clue that u had the ability to buy a moon pie for a nickle in your day old timer
It must have been nice to buy straights at that price, I always thought that they were collectors items and were priced the way they are now. Makes perfect sense when u know the straight razor community has grown ten fold over the years.

I'm sure I can figure out how to get on eBay for the UK but what your saying is by doing so you can get better prices due to the there not being much demand?

Originally Posted by Pithor

They seemed to have been exported to the USA in vast numbers, judging by the frequency they pop up there. I have never seen too many of them on the UK ebay.

Agreed, and of course in Canada as well.

And you are correct, I seldom see W&B's on UK eBay, you will see however plenty of lesser know Sheffield brands, and frequently at superb prices.

This Wade, W, and R was about the price of a good puck of soap, virtually new, hadn't been honed:

Dear OP....the prices keep rising because most people who want them go to eBay to buy them, and when they all get there, they try to win by raising their bids, and raising them again, and again.

If you read here long enough, you'll see that each person's actual experience is different with any make, size or grind. Some chase W&B, others Ducks, others Filarmonica, others Case, etc. since, as has also been pointed out "they don't make them any more", if you want an XXXXXXX, you have to pay what the market says. Like high capacity pistol magazines, which were (temporarily) banned. Prices tripled, so I sold some. Kinda like any other product. So, it's that simple

My brother recently purchased this for £120 which is mega cheap. From USA .
He told me it was a near wedge. Maybe it started off as a full wedge?
Those scales wont do.

Originally Posted by Pithor

They seemed to have been exported to the USA in vast numbers, judging by the frequency they pop up there. I have never seen too many of them on the UK ebay.

This is correct. IIRC Butcher was mainly concerned with facilitating the export to the USA, not in the manufacturing process, and lived in NYC ........ not the UK.