Thread: Grim Reaper reserve price

Dubl Duck Lifetime "Grim Reaper" 5/8"Current price:$305.00
End time:Jan-12-10 18:47:20 PSTAdd to watch list | See similar items

In my opinion, this is a good one to illustrate how NOT to sell a razor. Now I'm sure these "Grim Reapers" are rare, and there's people out there willing to spend mad cash on buying one, but here's an auction where the price has already gone up to $305, and yet it indicates that the seller's reserve price STILL HAS NOT BEEN MET! So what about the 5 people who bid this thing up from $100? They just wasted their time and bidding, and still the seller wants others to come in and bid even more.

And I don't even have a problem with setting a minimum bid for a valuable razor. If you know you aren't going to sell the razor for less than $400, then start the bidding at $400. If someone wants it, great. If not, then you get to own it or you can move the price down to something more realistic. But this kind of silliness just annoys buyers, or at least in my view it does.

No offense to Grim Reaper owners or eBay sellers or anyone else who might disagree, and for the record, I did not bid on this razor. If there's some reason for making razor buyers go through this process just to discover a seller's hidden reserve price, then let me know and maybe I would change my mind. But from where I sit, it still seems like gamesmanship and a waste of your buyers' time.