Thread: This is just unexceptable

dunno glen, yours don't look all that special
doesn't have the right scales and the blade is honed very uniformly

Heh, it came shave ready AND shave tested. That's got to be worth a couple of hundred right?

Altimas blades are generally very nice and I would accept an asking price from him in excess of 100 dollars USD, but that price is insane!

I guess you could say that altima55 has brand recognition.

He's built up a name for himself & his razors are recognised to be exactly as described (apart from the re-pinning). I just cant see who'd go that high. Shave ready always attracts a premium, but be really is reaping the benefits of his reputation recently!

Be careful guys. Back in the day there was a guy that bought every good razor on Ebay. If he is back (or someone similar) we're all in big trouble. He didn't care what he had to pay for a razor as long as he stopped all of us from ever having one.

This guy could be similar. Imagine Bill Gates getting into straight shaving and collecting and with full blown RAD. I think it was more than a year before the average buyer could pick up a good razor off Ebay.

I would suggest, at least in a public straight razor forum, that we not make too much fun of someone paying this much for a straight. It might look odd to us, but consider the real ramifications of someone that is collecting good straights and does not consider money an issue.

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

I would suggest, at least in a public straight razor forum, that we not make too much fun of someone paying this much for a straight. It might look odd to us, but consider the real ramifications of someone that is collecting good straights and does not consider money an issue.

If he does dare venture on to the forum, I'll say this to him...

Any of my razors that i've posted within this forum are available to you! No matter what emotional value they have to me & no matter how much work has gone in to them, we can come to some agreement. The value in $ may be high, but it's only money after all! Strip me of my razors & leave me with the cold comfort of hard cash!

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

Be careful guys. Back in the day there was a guy that bought every good razor on Ebay. If he is back (or someone similar) we're all in big trouble. He didn't care what he had to pay for a razor as long as he stopped all of us from ever having one...
I would suggest, at least in a public straight razor forum, that we not make too much fun of someone paying this much for a straight. It might look odd to us, but consider the real ramifications of someone that is collecting good straights and does not consider money an issue.

Bah. If somebody want's to pay that much more than market value for razors, he opens himself up for criticism.

Besides, your conciliatory tone suggests some sort of association with this character... Are you the aforementioned mystery guy?

Besides that, it would be kind of interesting to watch this "money is no object" person spend WAY too much money on ebay.

Maybe its time to dump out the contents of my shoebox and shine them up and put'em on the bay!

I got an almost zero hone wear W&B Special 10 months ago for $22.

When I think of the super-nice, brand new TIs and Bokers you could pick-up for $380...