Thread: Classifieds flooded?!!

I'd be interested in seeing what you have but as OCDshaver says people get to a point where they are selectively looking for a particular razor.

I agree with that cause I do sell mine on ebay to get pennies on the dollar for time spent on restoring these pieces of history. I was going to try and sell here on SRP because people here are more educated and know real worth and time spent but because how flooded it is I'm undecided. I also understand razors are only worth what the eyes of the beholder says its worth.

I have posted a few razors in the past few months and sold them all.

Originally Posted by Pyrateknight

With that said I don't buy often but I do buy. The last razor I got from the classifieds was a 6/8 Mappin Bros. Wedge.

A man after my own heart. Quality rather than quantity.

Originally Posted by razorbarber38

I just think we sometimes hype up certain razors which don't get me wrong are very high quality shavers like W&Bs that the rest of the razor world suffers. I don't know...like I said it makes me weary about putting something I spent 20 or more hrs on cleaning it up and making custom scales for to turn around and wait 2mths to sale.

I don't get it. I wouldn't care if you put 0 hours in cleaning it up or 100. I would either want the razor or I wouldn't. When I sell a razor, or anything else, I post my asking price. Most of the time it is firm but I have been known to be negotiable. I've posted stuff in the classifieds and on ebay that sold, and stuff that didn't sell. As a buddy of mine used to say, referring to mangos, if you don't shake the tree ..... you don't get no fruit .... (ungrammatical, I know, but that is what he said) Point is, you can lament the fact that it appears to you that razors aren't selling but that isn't going to get yours sold.

Originally Posted by razorbarber38

I agree with that cause I do sell mine on ebay to get pennies on the dollar for time spent on restoring these pieces of history. I was going to try and sell here on SRP because people here are more educated and know real worth and time spent but because how flooded it is I'm undecided. I also understand razors are only worth what the eyes of the beholder says its worth.

1.Members wishing to post a 'For Sale' (FS) or 'For Trade' (WTT) ad must have a minimum of three (3) months of membership and no less than 100 posts or six (6) months of membership and no fewer than 50 posts. Exceptions to this rule may be made by the senior moderator team


You make the cut by 4 posts... And you are complaining ????? about having a FREE place to list your razors ????



ummm Gift Horse, Mouth, yeah there is a saying about that someplace

Plain and simple.It's the economy today JMO

Originally Posted by gssixgun

1.Members wishing to post a 'For Sale' (FS) or 'For Trade' (WTT) ad must have a minimum of three (3) months of membership and no less than 100 posts or six (6) months of membership and no fewer than 50 posts. Exceptions to this rule may be made by the senior moderator team


You make the cut by 4 posts... And you are complaining ????? about having a FREE place to list your razors ????

Glens 100% right,why SRP do's not charge,Say a few % to sell,is beyond me.
Granted the site is not about buying and selling,but classifieds is.

Originally Posted by razorbarber38

I agree with that cause I do sell mine on ebay to get pennies on the dollar for time spent on restoring these pieces of history. I was going to try and sell here on SRP because people here are more educated and know real worth and time spent but because how flooded it is I'm undecided. I also understand razors are only worth what the eyes of the beholder says its worth.

Restoring razors to sell them for profit is a pretty inefficient idea.
For the time required, you would be better off flipping burgers.
Just because you spend a lot of time on a razor does not make the razor worth the amount of time you put in.
The fact that you see those razors not selling is proof that you should reconsider. As far as business plans go, this one sucks.

Even the best restorer I ever knew, Vlad Schneider, flat out said restoring razors for sale is a silly idea, and shared with us the numbers he made. And Vlad was the best I've ever seen. I am going with the assumption that he was better than you are, so the numbers are really not in your favor. Restoration is a very bad idea if you do it for fixing up razors and then selling them.

Besides, the classifieds ar NOT for running a business. So if you want to start making money by restoring razors and selling them, you'd have to either become a vendor, or start your own website or go to ebay. Because that is not what the classifieds are for.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Restoring razors to sell them for profit is a pretty inefficient idea.
For the time required, you would be better off flipping burgers.
Just because you spend a lot of time on a razor does not make the razor worth the amount of time you put in.
The fact that you see those razors not selling is proof that you should reconsider.

Besides, the classifieds ar NOT for running a business. So if you want to start making money by restoring razors and selling them, you'd have to either become a vendor, or start your own website or go to ebay. Because that is not what the classifieds are for.

I suppose its like any hobby or interest in that respect. I trust its like artisan bread, or worse. You can barely break even selling it. And the only way to make anything is to sell a lot of it. But I suppose if you do this for personal interest, its a way to recoup some of your money and keep going. But at the end of it, if the price rises too high for what you're getting, there's always a new TI or Revisor that sells for (possibly) similar money.

Yes. the correct way to approach this is as a hobby which you do because you love it. And then you could sell something from time to time in order to make some pocket money for buying extra supplies or perhaps a new hone or something like that. If you do it for money, you are going to be horribly disappointed.

When I was learning about restoration, I spent up to 20 hours handsanding, honing, and making scales made a whopping 50 $.
That is what you are looking at. The 50$ is nice, and with a couple of razors I could buy a Japanese stone. But as a 'for money' activity, it sucks big time. At least, it does until you get so very good that people are willing to pay for your time in order to restore -their- razors.

But that is a very long road, and by that time you've invested countless hours of free time and your own money.