Thread: Wondering why these brand are expensive?

Originally Posted by Johnus

I believe that I read that Genco outsourced a lot of their razors. Some being made in Germany and other countries. While I'm not an expert, I do have one or two less than stellar Gencos.

I don't think they outsourced them... They did however sell the company to Case, which is when they moved to Bradford, PA.

As for yours being less than stellar, in what way? I'm not saying I doubt you, I'm genuinely curious. Even with my mediocre honing skills, I'm getting great edges and shaves with mine. I had Glen hone two of them, one of which was really harsh at first, but mellowed after about the third shave and is doing great now.

Again, I'm not necessarily saying that Genco's are in the same class as the brands the OP mentioned, I'm just saying that I don't see how they fall short of said brands.

DD's are probably the least ornamental razors out there. They came with pedestrian scales and maybe some gold wash and some brass foil on the fancier ones. DD is really different than all the others because DD was not a manufacture. They were a retailer of barbering supplies and their razors were made by an unknown entity both in the U.S and Germany and France and some other places. They were originally marketed to the trade and became very popular with barbers and word of mouth from barbers is what really sold them to the public.

What makes these razors so highly in demand is they are so consistently great and hone consistently easy and hold their edge so consistently well. That is an unusual combination. What makes them so expensive is demand. Go back 10 years or more and DDs were not priced much higher than other brands.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

DD's are probably the least ornamental razors out there. They came with pedestrian scales and maybe some gold wash and some brass foil on the fancier ones. DD is really different than all the others because DD was not a manufacture. They were a retailer of barbering supplies and their razors were made by an unknown entity both in the U.S and Germany and France and some other places. They were originally marketed to the trade and became very popular with barbers and word of mouth from barbers is what really sold them to the public.

What makes these razors so highly in demand is they are so consistently great and hone consistently easy and hold their edge so consistently well. That is an unusual combination. What makes them so expensive is demand. Go back 10 years or more and DDs were not priced much higher than other brands.

What makes that really amazing is the fact that they are so consistently great and hone consistently easy and hold their edge consistently well all the while bring manufactured on different continents and in different countries at various different times.

If that was the case and it could be, then it means that many different manufacturers in different countries at various different times were fully capable of turning out consistently good razors. If these unknown different manufacturers could do that then they could make the same consistent quality for others too. So much for what is in a name and the country of origin in that case.

Bob