Thread: I just got my new razor :(

wish I could put a happy face there but I can't even try and use it yet because when I opened my razor it was actually broken.. I didn't even knew it was possible to sort of have the blade ripped, I figured steel to be stronger than that.


I don't have a camera here yet but I'm going to my mother tomorrow to see if she still has her digital one but the damage is like this

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with ~~~ being a sort of strip of metal going towards the side with a serrated tear seperating it from the rest of the metal (does that make sense for you?) How is this sort of damage caused in the first place? The razor was in closed state and packaged in 2 envelopes when I got it, is that not enough maybe?

Can this be fixed? What should be done with it?

Harold, who did you buy it from, and how much did you pay for it?

I aks these questions because if you bought it from a store or vendor most likely they will replace it. If you bought it from Ebay chances are the repair would cost more than the razor itself. If the latter is the case (and I suspect it is), I would recommend that:

1. You contact the vendor and see if he/she will make things right
2. you look through the buy/sell/trade forum or vendors forum and find one of our members who is selling a good razor at a great price.

If you need help finding a new razor PM me with what you are looking for and your price range, and I will find one of our vendors who has something to fit the bill.

Sorry for your loss

I bought it from mr john crowley(99.95$ razor + honing), I already contacted him and I'm sure we can sort it out amicably, I'm just very disappointed because it's such a thing of beauty: a 4/8 french point revisor razor.

I guess it needs a better mode of transportation because of the careless mailservices. :|

Harold,

I can tell you I know John personally, and he will make things right. I have ordered quite a few razors and I have never had anything like this happen, (I have even had some shipped from him accross the world). But don't you worry one bit, John will make sure he makes things right.

I'm not worried, just disappointed for both me and him, at its largest the tear is 2-3 mm 'high' and about 2-2.5 cm long and that does seem quite large into the flimsier part of the razor for me. I just hope it can be repaired.

These things are quite a thing of beauty, it's very sad to see one damaged.

Harold, sorry to hear about your razor.
This type of damage does not seem possible with the way it was packaged.
And since John honed the razor he would've noticed the damage.

Is it possible somebody opened it (post office, customs, etc) and played around with the razor before you got it?

Redwoood

well, I tried (even had to install a windows 98 in a vmware to get to the pictures because this camera is not supported under linux) but I fail at it. I guess the stupid cam sucks too much (it's a cheap one anyway: trust familycam 500, says it has 3.3 megapixels but it seems to be insufficient) no matter what I try I can never take a picture sharp enough so that it actually shows the fracture. I'll try if I can find someone with a better cam though.

But isn't Linux supposed to support it as a USB drive? Worst case scenario, try running an update with the camera plugged in and turned on.

it's messily supported via the spca5xx driver (not as usb drive though, that would've been nice) but I have gotten the pictures off it (via the windows install, oh the shame) and it's too blurry up close to a razor like that, you can't discern anything and from further away the fracture doesn't show because it's small of course. :|

I've never been one for taking pictures so I never bothered to buy a camera myself and my mother's new good one is an older analog one (she didn't like the digital experiment). Quite annoying.

Which distro are you using?