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05-20-2008, 12:37 PM #1Face nicker
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Razor prices
Wow the price of razors are rising faster thn gas prices. I started shaving and acquiring str8's about four years ago. At the time I started you could get a decent razor on ebay for $40. Now I have seen more razors over triple digits then ever before. My favorite razors are Dorko, they are now way out of my price range. Guys STOP BUYING RAZORS .
I haven't won an ebay razor in a year..
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05-20-2008, 12:51 PM #2Senior Member
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Price used to be determined by supply and demand. I don't think that rule applies any longer, at least on gas prices.
Last edited by Navaja; 05-21-2008 at 01:36 AM.
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05-20-2008, 11:55 PM #3
If I could tell you the number of collecting hobbies I've dropped in my lifetime because the prices became outrageous....
Now its happening to straights. I'm afraid the collectors are discovering straights and thats like investors in the crude oil market. They are spiking the prices.No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero
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05-21-2008, 01:59 AM #4Senior Member
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Like everything else, it ebbs and flows - I'm just hoping that I'm young enough (28) to ride out this ebb...I figure 30 years outta do 'er!
Mark
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05-21-2008, 08:12 AM #5Vitandi
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yup that is about the time my kids will be selling off my collection
Originally Posted by Milton Man
Like everything else, it ebbs and flows - I'm just hoping that I'm young enough (28) to ride out this ebb...I figure 30 years outta do 'er!
MarkBe just and fear not.
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05-21-2008, 08:35 AM #6Senior Member
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The continuing devaluation of the USD is part of the problem as well. Not so long ago it was about 1 USD for 1 Euro. Recently an NOS Dorko went for Euro 65 on ebay.de
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.
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05-21-2008, 12:45 PM #7Senior Member
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It does if you look at the "Global Community"! Originally Posted by Navaja
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05-21-2008, 03:01 PM #8Oh Yes!
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Still nowhere near as bad as (petrol/diesel) prices over here. They're gonna hit the £2 per litre mark in a few years.
Home heating oil is projected to reach the £1 per litre by the year 2010. Now that IS scary.
For you US guys, that approx $2 per litre.
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05-21-2008, 03:31 PM #9Face nicker
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Originally Posted by poona
Wow that is incredible.............Time for solar power...
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05-21-2008, 03:34 PM #10Senior Member
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I think it will eventually come down. Usually price is supply and demand, but occasionally you hit "tulip bulb" periods where prices just get silly for something (whether it's for tulip bulbs, internet stocks or razors), but that kind of pricing usually exhausts itself eventually. And if straight razors continue to get hotter, hopefully some of the old manufacturers will get back into and we'll be able to get new friodurs etc. for good prices, and that will rationalize the old razor market. For me, it seems like getting good unflashy new razors is more cost effective than ebaying, so that's my coping strategy.
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