Thread: Okay, this seller's listing are starting to rub me the wrong way...

Seeing how my career deals with sales and marketing, I totally understand highlighting the special qualities/unique characteristics of your product...

...but this eBay seller's listings are really starting to bother me.

This is at least the third occasion in the past two weeks or so that I've seen statements like 'Rare 1818 Wade & Butcher razor' in his title listings.

http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-1818-WADE-B...item5d2746c2f6

Then, in the body of his post he states the mfgr's dates from some antique books by Lummus - for example: "Wade & Butcher 1818-1890 ("Old Sheffield Razors' by Lummus. Antiques, Dec. 1922)"

Now, I realize the shape of a blade and/or tang can give you a narrow date range for a razors age - however this seller claims not only a specific year, but also a year that's always right near the beginning of a manufacturer's lifespan (at least in the 2 or 3 listings I've seen so far anyway).

Perhaps I'm missing something... Maybe the antique books by Lummus, or other guides I don't have on hand actually give enough data for someone to actually narrow down a specific year...

But from what I've seen so far, I'm beginning to suspect this seller is stretching it a bit far in an attempt to paint a much more appealing historic picture/age on his wares than is reasonable.