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    Default 600 straight razor estate on Ebay. ALERT!!

    I'm sure I'm not the first to see this, but someone is listing a BOATLOAD of straights all with a $9.99 starting bid. Here's just one of the auctions. Click on other sellers auctions and you'll see the whole list of course. Enough to go around for everyone.

    CLICK HERE

    Oh, and I'm selling a good Swaty with 3 lines of text

    HERE

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    Thanks for the heads-up. Oh and that's your Swaty??? I was looking at it earlier and contemplating bidding on it...But that I realized "oh wait, what money am I going to spend on it?" Plus I knew the bidding would get a lot higher....

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    don't tell your mum.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris L View Post
    I'm sure I'm not the first to see this, but someone is listing a BOATLOAD of straights all with a $9.99 starting bid. Here's just one of the auctions. Click on other sellers auctions and you'll see the whole list of course. Enough to go around for everyone.

    CLICK HERE

    Oh, and I'm selling a good Swaty with 3 lines of text

    HERE

    Chris L
    I have ran into a few of these from this lot! They seem to be carfull not to flood the market though! Too bad for us!

    Matt

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    Yes, Im new, but only to this site. Wet shaver now for over 5 years. I've purchased 12 of the 600 razors, 10 of which had to be shipped back due to flaws. I kept the last 2 simply because I'm tired of paying the return fees. I say, beware the 600 razors. They all should be sold by now, but I've seen several of them relisted time and time again, as other bidders returned there razors as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RazorTalkin View Post
    Yes, Im new, but only to this site. Wet shaver now for over 5 years. I've purchased 12 of the 600 razors, 10 of which had to be shipped back due to flaws. I kept the last 2 simply because I'm tired of paying the return fees. I say, beware the 600 razors. They all should be sold by now, but I've seen several of them relisted time and time again, as other bidders returned there razors as well.
    I have also had a problem with this seller. The razor had a serious flaw which was not mentioned in the ad. I think if you are going to buy from this seller you should be very careful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ndw76 View Post
    I have also had a problem with this seller. The razor had a serious flaw which was not mentioned in the ad. I think if you are going to buy from this seller you should be very careful.
    In that case please leave honest feedback and do something about the 100% positive feedback. In my opinion, the feedback system is so broken it is meaningless. I quit doing feedback because of numerous cases of retaliatory feedback and then I quit doing ebay.

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    I also got caught by this guy to the tune of $35.00, very much a case of buyer beware.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OLD_SCHOOL View Post
    If the seller rights his wrongs by offering a refund or what have you, the feedback would most likely stay at 100%, because how could one possibly justify negative feedback if the seller has taken the necessary steps to correct their mistake?
    The justification would be if they still expect me to pay for shipping both ways. If it's an honest mistake, sure, I agree negative feedback would not be justified. If the seller corrects his "mistakes," I believe honest feedback would be neutral, certainly not positive. However, I don't consider the failure to mention a crack in a blade to be an honest mistake. Not mentioning something as blatant as that is flat out deception and should not be tolerated.
    Too many sellers pull this stuff and just hope most won't bother doing anything about it. The last hone I bought on ebay was a barber hone described as having a small crack along the side of the hone. What it had was a two inch piece broken off of the end of a five and a half inch hone. The seller insisted that was the crack he had mentioned, yet the photo didn't show the hone was in two pieces at all. If I have to pay $11.00 to cover shipping both ways to get my money back for the hone, I don't consider that to be a correction of a mistake. I'm only out the $11.00 because the seller did not honestly describe the hone. In my opinion that does not merit positive feedback.

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    I agree. I think that I am rating my experience with the seller. If I got an item that was mis-represented, even if the seller refunded me the purchase price, it's still not a positive experience. It would be neutral at best.

    I understand that they are in the business to make money, but sometimes you feel like you just paid 8 bucks to look at a broken item and then send it back.

    The thing that gets me is that I may pay 5 bucks and you use 3 to ship me the item. Then when I don't like it you graciously offer me a refund of the purchase price as long as I ship it back on my dime. You just made 2 dollars and still have the item to try and re-sell.

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