check this one out?
i had 1 and almost new condition sold for 27$.
WADE & BUTCHER SPECIALSTRAIGHT RAZOR SUPERB SHAVE READY - eBay (item 160312836105 end time Feb-06-09 17:00:00 PST)
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check this one out?
i had 1 and almost new condition sold for 27$.
WADE & BUTCHER SPECIALSTRAIGHT RAZOR SUPERB SHAVE READY - eBay (item 160312836105 end time Feb-06-09 17:00:00 PST)
let your opinions go please
I think that there are some pretty serious "altima55" collectors out there. That's just ridiculous. :eek:
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I bet its very acceptable to Altima! All the way to the bank!
Its the box :shrug:
I think his razors are re-pinned with solid gold and he sends it to you wrapped in a hundred dollar bill.
Hey! I have one of those. It's in my pile for general cleaning up..no real resto needed. I guess I could part with it for eleventy million bucks. Just send me a PM. Actually, don't. I don't care how much they're selling for. I'm not getting rid of any of my razors unless I have to pay bills with the loot.
Jeebus. Somebody got right into a serious bidding war.
Way to go Altima!
Now where was that I saw a W&B Full Hollow Special :hmmm:
Oh yeah I remember now....
http://straightrazorpalace.com/314679-post41.html
I have one :D
dunno glen, yours don't look all that special
doesn't have the right scales and the blade is honed very uniformly :p
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.
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Originally Posted by AFDavis11
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!
Bah. If somebody want's to pay that much more than market value for razors, he opens himself up for criticism.Quote:
Originally Posted by AFDavis11
Besides, your conciliatory tone suggests some sort of association with this character... Are you the aforementioned mystery guy? :hmmm:
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...
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Originally Posted by nun2sharp
Me too. It could be a straight razor shaver's economic stimulus package!
If I knew I would get that much, this one would go up for sale in a heart beat. I use this one, maybe I shouldn't?
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Tim:thinking:
Surely of all people, youve got another just like it.;)
4 more simialar, going for a 7 day set all with different scales and size :D
i agree but there is solution.contact seller and ask half price say rest is yours lets see what he will say:hmmm:Quote:
Originally Posted by oldblades
You've got to have at least two people, fighting it out, to reach that kind of price.Quote:
Originally Posted by OLD_SCHOOL
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WHYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!:confused:
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Originally Posted by joke1176
No, it ain't me. I gave up RAD a long time ago. But I remember waiting about a year before good straight razor prices came down to where the average user could even bid on one.
The last guy actually made me angry. I'm certain he just bid and tossed them in some closet.
I checked out this guys bid history and he doesn't seem to hot for razors yet. But I still remember the average cost of a good razor going up to $300.
Wow. That's quite bizzare. I've got my scope trained on a few razors on the bay right now, so let's hope the winning bidder on this one isn't a guy like AFDavis was describing. Looking at the bid history, it does seem to have been a war between 7***2 (the eventual winner), and i***6.
Like I said a while back one of my hobbies is fully restoring antique bicycles. I was once an avid ebayer for old frames and components. I've seen this exact bahavior over old racing bikes. People paying thousands of dollars for bikes that sold new for a few hundred. We all like old stuff, and if it's in primo condition, people with money are more than willing to pony up for it. I guess my kids are going to make a fortune on ebay when I die. I refuse to sell my nice antique stuff. I don't care if people are willing to pay 100 times its worth. After all, money gets spent. The item will stay with me til I die.
+1. neuf said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc
Don't get confused!. Almost all in this place have chosen a straight razor just for shaving (that is the ONLY why in the end!).
If you have all the money in the world, would that justify that you must pay for some blade with no use just for the fun to pay for it with no other reason that just "to have it?" A real useful SR would cost "as little" as 120 dollars NEW! Why pay for a SR that requires so much effort to make it useful, money that should support the survivors in that trade?.
So, people, go and buy an "inverse smiling blade" (almost unusable and I want to see how it is honed!) for more than 100 dollars when you can have a new Dovo or Boker and support the only people left that do that kind of stuff.
Anyway… In forums like this is it obvious what vintage razors are worth and it shows… Shame for that the compulsory buyer that takes away so much fun for those that know and are praised but not really heard.
I dont know what the razor was in the original post, I am assuming a W&B Special, but a quick look at where prices are today (4 years later) and suddenly, its really not so surprising.
