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    Free market supply and demand......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin78 View Post
    I sell razors on ebay. Before listing I see what similar items have sold for. This gives me a good average of what to expect in the bidding, and a pretty fair estimate of a starting asking price. I tend to 'over-inform' in my descriptions (i.e. describing the items, the condition, and possibly some history, if warranted). I will also incude as many photos as possible (12 max) and reveal any potential flaws. No funny business. Money-back guarantee, too. Why do all this? I want satisfied customers. Satisfied customers usually means positive feedback— the 'lifeblood' of being a successful vendor.
    Too often you'll see ebay sellers as described in Phrank's post above— no knowledge of the particular item for sale, just moving it at the highest potential price possible.
    This explains razors with big hunks missing from the blade, but the description states, "the box and razor are in excellent condition for their age."
    And as a consumer, I would buy from you all day long, but still my duty to make sure the information you are providing is accurate.

    I agree with you, I'm the same way as as a seller. I'm just saying the buyer also shares responsibility. :-)
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    Quote Originally Posted by hrfdez View Post
    And as a consumer, I would buy from you all day long, but still my duty to make sure the information you are providing is accurate.
    Absolutely—with all the fraud and misinformation present, fact checking and asking questions is always a good idea for any savvy buyer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin78 View Post
    Absolutely—with all the fraud and misinformation present, fact checking and asking questions is always a good idea for any savvy buyer.
    Kevin you are also a person I would buy from. It seems I am always asking people what the WIDTH of the razor is, They will give you every other measurement but NOT the width. Also why can't the sellers at LEAST take a piece of 1000 grit wet/dry sand paper and give that rust spot a rub? around the tang is the worse for bad spots. It will just get worse if you don't get at least SOME of it off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by THORandODIN View Post
    Kevin you are also a person I would buy from. It seems I am always asking people what the WIDTH of the razor is, They will give you every other measurement but NOT the width. Also why can't the sellers at LEAST take a piece of 1000 grit wet/dry sand paper and give that rust spot a rub? around the tang is the worse for bad spots. It will just get worse if you don't get at least SOME of it off.
    Because somebody like ME doesnt want you to TOUCH sandpaper to my future razor! Just leave it alone, I'll fix it myself! I will bid higher on a rusty blade than I will one that has been scratched up by an amateur with no clue what he is doing!
    As for the OP, as a guy with many friends in the antiquities business.... You look up what the highest price is that somebody sold a similar item for. Thats your STARTING point! Some will even start with that plus 10% (or more) You can always go down in price if it doesnt sell, but if you start low, you wont even know what you MIGHT have gotten out of somebody who didnt know any better. And it really is NOT the sellers job to educate the buyer when it comes to ebay.
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    I am very wary of mirrored out razors that I didn't do myself or know the person who did the work. It doesn't take much to ruin a temper getting greedy using things like dremel tools. If something is really caked, it's honestly better to chemically dissolve the raised rust before hand sanding imo. Problem is, profit motivated ppl tend to do quick and dirty, not considered.
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    To Magpie, Yep, you can price your stuff that way, and you can also go out of business which one of my antique shops has done but then they had their straight razors at a very high price. They were asking $60.00 for a $30.00 razor and they would NOT dicker with you about the price. All their stuff was too high IMHO. So now they are unemployed and probably in debt. Better than SOME profit than NONE!!. JMHO. It comes to a point where your stuff is so high folks will not even dicker with you because people will feel like they are insulting you by offering what its really worth NOT what YOU think its worth. Btw, 1000 grit will not scratch a razor up, but 400 grit will. Oh, yea, You see all those Mirrored up razors on the E-Bay?I don't even give them them the time of day, I want some patina so I can see what the condition of the razor, I have seen too many mirrored up razors that had bad bevels and micro cracked blades. That if you didn't look VERY good you will miss it.
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    Fresh 1k will scratch up softer steels but not so much the harder alloys. I tend to employ lapping sandpaper for blade sanding when I have it since the stones soften the abrasive's cut a fair bit

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    At one time in the past I thought hat it would be nice to take apart and polish each razor that I bought. Actually did that once or twice, no longer. I just disinfect, wash, use a liquid silver polish, if rusty or really dirty. My main intrest is honing and stropping to have a shave ready blade.


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    Each time someone claims he's got razor acquisition disorder (vulgarly referred to as "RAD"), and someone with experience doesn't tell him, "you have a mental problem, go see an expert", another eBay madness is born. The antidote? Genuine research, on site, with the people who built these razors. Comme ça:

    Your Filarmonica is just another Solingen export razor.

    You Dubl Duck was most likely ground by apprentices, and the grinders still alive think you're not the most absorbent tampon in the box for buying it, irrespective of its price.

    Your Puma is a mass produced razor ridiculed by Solingen natives.

    I could go on for a long time. But you might already be getting my drift. One born every minute.

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