I actually bought the razor for $20. I really hate like hell to patronize someone I consider a scammer even once, but I want to find out for myself if it's true. If I receive what I expect to receive, I plan to complain to eBay. I do think that the razor is pretty and will make a good restore candidate and can likely be made shave ready with a PROPER honing. I am tooling up to sell actual shave ready razors that I have actually shave tested on myself, which kind of leads to a curious question: for me to sell a razor as shave ready, I feel that you actually have to SHAVE with it to see if it requires further work; now unless you are a multi-headed Hydra, how could you mass-market shave ready razors? It makes you wonder.