Thread: Ebay, Wade and Butcher equals Total Bidding War ?

Originally Posted by gooser

ha ha , i set a limit and walked away on that razor ...lol congrats , i wasnt far off but it jumped quick like the rest of them towards the end ...

Thanks i love paying top dollar, makes me feel like the razors worth more! haha

Originally Posted by JoeLowett

Thanks i love paying top dollar, makes me feel like the razors worth more! haha

I strangely agree with that last statement..lol

[QUOTE=JoeLowett;1073915] i think it was in the 140-60 range when i put 220? in i thought for sure i had it , as cool as they are ive given up on them all together ...lol im gonna look for the flea market super find ( or should i say , im gonna have lots of prayers ) the ones on there that ended today jumped fast also ...

[QUOTE=gooser;1073924]

Originally Posted by JoeLowett

i think it was in the 140-60 range when i put 220? in i thought for sure i had it , as cool as they are ive given up on them all together ...lol im gonna look for the flea market super find ( or should i say , im gonna have lots of prayers ) the ones on there that ended today jumped fast also ...

Yea, it went quick and i knew it would. I will not disclose the dollar amount my wife was willing to spend on that razor- lets just say that razor had the potenital to have turned in to a major expense in my household- im glad it didnt get too crazy, though $227 is pretty insane. Then again my wife and i go out to dinner at black stones steak house once a year, (best porterhouse for 3 you'll ever have next to lugers) and the bill was $290+ tip. Lets just say i no longer possess the steak or knob creek manhattens.... I bet that w&b will oneday be a 400 yo razor.

Originally Posted by cheetahmeatpheonix

I strangely agree with that last statement..lol

you'll love me then to, ive been the bid just under yours on a few also ...lol..in a way i feel bad for the guys who have been getting them for years and used to pick these sought after blades up at a much lower cost , but i think more people are out there to try to turn a buck or collect then there is who like most of us wanna shave with a old razor with lots of meat on the bone and learn about its production date and the history behind it ....

funny how you have 3 guys on the same board with in a matter of moment who just a couple days ago where bidding on the same steel. any way now that i have mine (coming this xmas) you two can duke it out... wish we all could have had this convo before the bidding wars, then maybe we could have 'called' a razor so to speak to keep the prices down- lord knows there is no shortage!... while im on the ebay w&b topic btw did either of you see the w&b mr.quick civil war blade- what a fake provinonce. That gut ruined a total mint pair of scales faking some nonsense story and at the end i think her got like 170$$... who ever honed that razor made that edge with and ear to ear smile. didnt look good to me....

yes i did , there are some 6/8 on there in the buy it now in the 2-300 range that are in ruff shape , no battling for me , ive spent my razor allowance till i get back to work in April .. or income tax time ...lol..

Originally Posted by gooser

yes i did , there are some 6/8 on there in the buy it now in the 2-300 range that are in ruff shape , no battling for me , ive spent my razor allowance till i get back to work in April .. or income tax time ...lol..

im not sure 2-300 for a 6/8 or 7/8 is a good price ever.. I hate when 'outsiders' of the wet-shave community google the razors they found at an estate sale, see that prime specimans sold at auction for top dollar and then attempt to sell that crap they found with as starting bid or bin at that top dollar amount. One guy has had an 8/8 w&b on the bay for months with a HUGE chip about 1/8 wide x 3/16 up. he goes on the say "it msut have been the guys fav razor because he still continued to shave with it even with a peas sized chip out of the blade".... HA! that chip would likely make your face look like freddy kruger got you by the time you were done with one pass. And it you were to hone it out you would be left with a 6/8 with a huge tang and an oversized barber's notch.

I did see that civil war one but i didnt bid. I was too busy winning other blades that have yet to show up. A 8/8 WM. Margraves and a tapered edge Greaves and son and now this 8/8 George Wostenholm. I wasn't bidding on the W&B though. Sometimes i just watch them for fun....lol

Nice looking WB. I still have it in my "watch" list

Originally Posted by cheetahmeatpheonix

I did see that civil war one but i didnt bid. I was too busy winning other blades that have yet to show up. A 8/8 WM. Margraves and a tapered edge Greaves and son and now this 8/8 George Wostenholm. I wasn't bidding on the W&B though. Sometimes i just watch them for fun....lol

Nice looking WB. I still have it in my "watch" list

i wanna see that geo, when you get around to it of course.