Thread: trends in razor sales

There are fewer good quality blades on ebay in their "wild" state. The great majority you see now are from dealers and fellow enthusiasts. All too often, they set a fixed price, or a starting bid at what many see as an already fully retailed price.
As cheap replacements for the top brands become harder to come by, those who don't have an issue dropping the same money for a used blade as a custom would have cost drive the prices ever higher.
And they DO fluctuate. A DD wonderedge a few years ago would fetch 125 bucks. Last year they were fetching 220. Recently I have seen some back at the old price. Follow Pixel;s advice. Buy just a few nice ones, don't get crazy, and enjoy some sanity. Now if I could only follow that advice myself....

Originally Posted by Magpie

There are fewer good quality blades on ebay in their "wild" state. The great majority you see now are from dealers and fellow enthusiasts. All too often, they set a fixed price, or a starting bid at what many see as an already fully retailed price.
As cheap replacements for the top brands become harder to come by, those who don't have an issue dropping the same money for a used blade as a custom would have cost drive the prices ever higher.
And they DO fluctuate. A DD wonderedge a few years ago would fetch 125 bucks. Last year they were fetching 220. Recently I have seen some back at the old price. Follow Pixel;s advice. Buy just a few nice ones, don't get crazy, and enjoy some sanity. Now if I could only follow that advice myself....

I really don't know about all the eBay sellers but if someone buys a razor cleans and reconditions it then hones it and has it shave ready then it should bring more than one that has not had all that done to it. the ones that need all this should bring less. A DD shave ready free from rust depending on the size and not damaged in any way well I've seen them on the bay for a lot of money. also saw a wade and Butcher (or at least I think it was a wade and butcher) sell for almost 1200.00 who knew. I think all this is part of this accent art we have chosen. As far as the not so common name brands of razors you see on eBay well I've got good shaves off some I've never heard of before and they were fairly cheap. everyone has there own opinion and that also makes this addiction fun.