So a friend of mine is wanting to sell some of his straights in his collection. I am not asking what they are worth or if you want to buy them, but we were discussing whether or not they would be worth more honed up or not. I was thinking that to us people with RAD and experience honing wouldn't care if it was shave ready or not as we would normally re-hone it to our personal likings anyways before use. However, I was also thinking that if it is made shave ready before selling then it would appeal to people who don't have experience with honing or someone looking to get into straights.

He thinks the razors should just be left alone in their current condition with no claims to shave readiness as more people will want something that hasn't been messed with, or messed with as little as possible being they're all vintage razors no NOS or new current production. Also another point he brought up was that my shave ready and your shave ready could be very different and thus a buyer could demand a return or leave negative feed back because the razor wasn't sharp enough to shave a porcupine with one clean swipe.

So what do you guys think. I have bought plenty of razors on the bay but never sold one so I really don't know. Actually never sold anything on the bay before so I don't really know.