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09-10-2015, 08:50 PM #31
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09-10-2015, 09:34 PM #33
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Thanked: 580Wasn'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...Into this house we're born, into this world we're thrown ~ Jim Morrison
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09-10-2015, 09:47 PM #34
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09-10-2015, 09:49 PM #35
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09-10-2015, 09:49 PM #36
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?
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09-10-2015, 09:55 PM #37
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:
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09-10-2015, 09:58 PM #38
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 simpleJust call me Harold
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09-10-2015, 10:02 PM #39
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.
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09-10-2015, 10:02 PM #40
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