Thread: Have razor prices gotten out of control?

Now really...Just how many razors do you need?!...


Mick

I agree that the prices are getting pretty high. A lot more expensive than when I started with a straight.

It's not limited to razors either. Just look at the prices of Escher stones on eBay. Or even just the prices of coticules. Everything is going up.

I havent bought any razors on Ebay, but I find the prices to be barely affected at the flea markets and auction houses that I frequent. I manage to find 5-10 razors per week for $5-10 each just by hopping from flea markets and antique stores. I am sorry to hear that fellow collectors do not have such success.

I have 9 straight razors, 5 of them I traded some pocket knives for but the others I found at antique stores. I did not pay more then $10 for any of them. But just this weekend I was at an antique mall in Midlothian and found one that was so badly rusted that I could not read the name. It had a rust hole in the blade and the scales were craked and pitted, $15 firm. Needless to say I walked.
Rich

Originally Posted by RDM2

I have 9 straight razors, 5 of them I traded some pocket knives for but the others I found at antique stores. I did not pay more then $10 for any of them. But just this weekend I was at an antique mall in Midlothian and found one that was so badly rusted that I could not read the name. It had a rust hole in the blade and the scales were craked and pitted, $15 firm. Needless to say I walked.
Rich

Yeah, if the scales weren't cracked it would have been worth $15.

Bingo!!!! I cant replace scales (again)
Rich

On ebay prices are getting insane... and also in my local antique store one guy charges 60-250 for high end straights that need restoration still so he sells at a highend restored price for unrestored. And one also has them at average ebay price for good shape high ends around 25-50. The other has crappy ones for around same. And my go to antique store has great razors for 6-20 almost all the time. I bought one in my childhood hometown looks like it was never used and had original box needed no restore for 20. The other stores in that town unrestored gencos for 175... the other one rusty chipped unresorable crap for 40-60 and wouldnt budge on price.... prices are pretty crappy here most of the time....

Prices have gone thru the roof for those new to the sport and want to amass more razors,they want the great razors.
Yet they bitch about the prices.
So be it,for those of us that bought the great razors cheap over the yrs,I think we are all sitting back with a smile on our faces

Really no point in trying to figure out the market price for razors or stones. They are worth what people are willing to pay for them.

Condolences Jumbo, I never pay more than $2.50 for a razor and log in an easy 20 to 30 per week. Mostly I look for the razors that say something like harmonica on them and I like the Japanese razors with the funny writing.....I catch a lot of those, plus the gigantic Sheffields. Stick with it, you'll find the right spots. I found a 15 inch yellow green Escher last week but the fool was asking $30.00 for it and wouldn't come down....naturally I walked.

Originally Posted by jumbojohnny

I havent bought any razors on Ebay, but I find the prices to be barely affected at the flea markets and auction houses that I frequent. I manage to find 5-10 razors per week for $5-10 each just by hopping from flea markets and antique stores. I am sorry to hear that fellow collectors do not have such success.