My impression is that we are caught up in a vicious circle, particularly on eBay. Our hobby has gathered more attention in the last year or so and people who have razors laying around their house of that find them on estate sales etc go on Ebay and check the sale prices on completed listings.

Then they take those prices as reference and price their own razors probably just based on the brand name. They may find that a Wade & Butcher FBU sold for $350 and they may have a half hollow W & B with a big frown and pitting all over the place but still they price it at $299 based on their flawed research. The problem is that they may actually sell at those outrageous prices, someone new to the hobby could have read on a shaving forum that the W & B are good shavers and not knowing any better goes and buys it, perpetuating this pricing distortion.