Thread: I should have known RAD would kick in... Frederick Reynolds Sheffield - oh boy...

If you're looking on ebay buying lots is a way to get them cheap but you wind up getting a lot of junkers that way. Sometimes I will buy 20 razors to get one I'm after. That's how I have picked up some FBUs on the cheap because it was tucked away because the seller didn't know what they had and they stay cheap because buyers didn't notice it.
That takes knowing what you are looking for and looking at which takes a little while.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

If you're looking on ebay buying lots is a way to get them cheap but you wind up getting a lot of junkers that way. Sometimes I will buy 20 razors to get one I'm after. That's how I have picked up some FBUs on the cheap because it was tucked away because the seller didn't know what they had and they stay cheap because buyers didn't notice it.
That takes knowing what you are looking for and looking at which takes a little while.

I have been noticing that lately. on Etsy most the people think they have gold mines even if they don't, but on eBay I saw a lot just yesterday that had a couple I was eyeing surrounded by maybe 8 or 12 others that seemed like got garbage, including something from the last 7 years maybe that is most definitely a China made "toy" razor (all covered in emblems and interesting blade etchings of lightning bolts and what not lol). I plead the 5th on wheter or not I bid on it and 3 other listings... I feel if I whisper it my wife will hear and I am screwed.

I will second this. I got a mastodon of a haul by following the PaulFLUS School of Methodology....lol.
I started researching "barber's lots" just to see what I could find.Not the cheapest of the cheap (when it was over), with lots of useful extras. Some stuff I will never use...BUT 2 of the largest collectibles that I will ever own. And an autographed book on straight razors.

I haven't seen anything like it since but I have slowed down tremendously recently.

Here's the post though.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

If you're looking on ebay buying lots is a way to get them cheap but you wind up getting a lot of junkers that way. Sometimes I will buy 20 razors to get one I'm after. That's how I have picked up some FBUs on the cheap because it was tucked away because the seller didn't know what they had and they stay cheap because buyers didn't notice it.
That takes knowing what you are looking for and looking at which takes a little while.

This one is real shell....

Originally Posted by Phrank

This one is real shell....

That is certainly an outstanding looking razor and set of scales!

Originally Posted by Phrank

This one is real shell....

DIBS!!!!!!

Just in case you decide to part with it.

Gotta throw my hat in the ring too!!

That one will probably not be sold out of Canada due to the nature of the scales - Tortoise scales big "no-no" with the customs peeps, same as some old Ivory scaled razors I have.

Ahhhhh. Sad trombones.