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I am sure this is not a site members frequent when looking for razors but I ran across it an they have what appears to be factory edge Dovo Best Quality on Sale for $49.97.
Dovo Yellow Synthetic Straight Razor Folding Knife - BUDK
I think this is in the right place. If not please move.
Not sure I get the association:Quote:
Originally Posted by TeMpTiN
So I can pay $49.99 for a razor of dubious manufacture, from a bargain sales company I have never heard from that knows so little about razors their description of this one is worse than most eBay sellers, AND then add on $35 to have it shipped to me, shipped to a hone guy, shipped back to me? Or, I suppose I could save the $35 by buying a $300 set of hones to sharpen it myself.
Or I could buy it from a reputable vendor and get a genuine DOVO Best Quality for around $75 honed, shipped.
Nah. I'll buy the BudK one.
Dovo is German, that's the only association.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shoki
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Dovo Yellow Synthetic Straight Razor Folding Knife
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Then you still need to ship to get honed and pay the price to get it honed. That would be about another $20 or $30 added to the $59.96. That would be around $79 or $89 dollars. For around the same price you can get one professionally honed and from a trusted source.
If you can hone your own, that's a nice discount. Shipping to me is $10, so that's $60. SRD is $85 to my door.
But, as above, if I couldn't, it wouldn't be worth in.
I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole . A "straight razor folding knife" ??? What is it , straight razor or a folding knife ? Chinese imitation Dovo , perhaps ?
The picture makes it look legit but the picture can also just be a standard picture used in most websites and not the actual razor.
It looks iffy to me so be careful.
Are there actually Chinese imitations of Dovo's that look legit? I am genuinely curious, but have never seen one.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave5225
You could have it sent directly to your favorite honemeister and therefore the cost would be $50 for the razor, $10 for the shipping, and $20 for the honing and return mailing. $80 would be about the minimum total cost.
I really don't know for sure if there are Chinese imitation Dovo's , but there are Chinese imitations of many things that are popular name brands . I'm leery of the low price , and the description "straight razor folding knife" . If it turns out that you can't get a shaving edge on the razor , they could (if they even bother to) tell you it's not a razor , it's a knife . Quality doesn't come cheap , and you get what you pay for , if you're lucky .Quote:
Originally Posted by holli4pirating
Unless someone actually makes imitations, and unless a given shop is duplicitous enough to sell imitations, I don't see how you could get a razor that won't take an edge. No matter what the description says, it's a Dovo razor.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave5225
I thought the "related items" were interesting as well.
The fact that they know nothing about the items they carry just makes them like many other internet and big box stores. That does not mean the items are knock offs. They also carry a few others in the Dovo line along with some other brands and at the prices they want for factory edges I wouldn't even think about buying from them.
Razor Folding Knives - Page 1
I don't have hones(yet), or I might have ordered one and put an edge and new scales on myself. Like others have mentioned if you can't hone it yourself there is no deal to be had here.
Also please don't get me wrong I fully plan to continue "buying Local" supporting the quality service that places normally mentioned here provide.
However the frugal part of me still takes note when there is a sale and thought I would share it with the gang.
Link for all Dovos
Seems like they have a couple of deals.
I have a friend in the cutlery biz, who told me he can get me Dovo razors if I want them. and like any other thing, the more you buy, the cheaper they are.
We never talked actual price, but if I could buy 100 of them, at a cost of 30 dollars each, I would have to lay down 3000 dollars, and then spend 30 minutes each putting a hone on them.
I would have to sell 38 of them at 80 bucks each just to see the return on the original investment. Even if I only needed to put 15 minutes into each blade, thats 25 hours of my time, not including time spent writing advertizments, and actually selling, and shipping, and assuming I sell 2 razors a week, I MIGHT see a profit a year down the road!
Bargins, they really dont exist!
BudK has been around a long time but is primarily a knife seller so is marketing them as such. If you look the ones that are on sale are also the ones that are in closeout pricing as well. If you have a set of hones then this isn't a bad deal and you will get a nice razor out of it.
Found it an odd coincidence, that right after this post was put up, an advertising banner for BUDK showed up on the page. :hmmm:
Budk is a catalog of crap, IMO. But if they have discontinued Dovos I think you would be alright, unless they are seconds with problems.
They sell other dovo's and boker's here. the low price may be cause it is nickel plated. the other razors on this site are listed as carbon steel.
My .02
Peace out
I would order one if i was in the market for another Dovo. Budk has been around for a while. I have ordered thing from them in the past. So has a friend of mine. There fine to deal with. There is def a saving's with those prices.
It's not nickel plated. It's just a normal Dovo BQ like you'd get anywhere else.Quote:
Originally Posted by no1slacker
I don't like the association myself. I'm not going to give my money to a store that also caters to people who like to wear nazi and SS patches.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shoki