Thread: Pumas are nice, but....

The concepts of pricing & value in Japan are very strange to us westerners eg if you own a Ferrari in Japan & send it to a top mechanic for modding & tuneup you would fully expect to pay half the value of the car for that service. So $1200 for an '89 is ridiculous for us but in Japan may be quite realistic & the $30 honing fee would be dead cheap.

I'm not so sure a blacksmith shop is the place I'd want my razor honed. I have no idea if the place listed is quality or not but it seems as though razors are not their primary focus. The possibility is there that someone pays $1244 for the razor, shipping, and honing and it shows up needing maintenance.

At least it looks like the man in the picture is sharpening the blade on a stone. Isaw one listing on ebay a while back that offered a honing service. It showed a picture of someone honing a blade on a lapidary faceter.

Originally Posted by Ryan82

I usually don't wade into ebay discussions/disagreements, but I did see this one today and felt compelled to comment: Vintage Straight Razor:89 PUMA SOLINGEN GERMANY SPECIAL | eBay

Nice razor and all, but at that price?

He has to charge that much in order to recoup the $4.60 a SECOND he paid some guy to stretch a 10-second video into 4 and a half minutes.

Zzzz...............

If I offered him more than what he is asking, do you think he'd be offended?

If the one guy people were referring to is BeBerlin, he got one of these a while back.

I have two and I love mine, but I would never pay that much for one or for any razor. I don't think any razor is worth that much to me, even (especially, in my case) customs.

Well, the seller has achieved his goal. He is popular now. His Puma and his pricing discussed on all forums. Bravo, Suzuki san!

Originally Posted by Zelenbakh

Well, the seller has achieved his goal. He is popular now. His Puma and his pricing discussed on all forums. Bravo, Suzuki san!

That may very well be the case, but he's likely famous for all the wrong reasons. Namely, outlandish prices and an ego to match.....

Who knows? Probably that's a real NOS razor, with all nessesary analisys of metal. There is a huge market of newly made NOS and fake NOS. I have seen on eBay that people pay up to 400-500$ for a fake NOS. From this point of view the price of Suzuki san is fair, original NOS should cost at least 3 times more.