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    I have never seen one marked Fromm also, so I am blank there..
    The Blackie should be a vintage razor... The only "New" one I have seen is I guess made by Dovo and is called a Cadillac but does not look anything like the older ones...

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    how are the blackies?

    and how about the one that say monkhouse not cmon?

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    I have a blackie and it is a great shaver. Smooth , close shave and holds an edge very well. Highly recommend them.
    Having Fun Shaving

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    The Blackie's take a very, very, sharp long lasting edge, as to the difference between a JPM C-MON and a Carl Monkhouse C-MON I don't think I could tell the difference on my skin with my eyes closed...
    I have not seen a Monkhouse that doesn't say C-MON yet, but they might exsist, I have seen a JPM that is not a C-MON....

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    I've always thought that the Carl Monkhouse "C-Mon's" were the original, then J Peter Michaels acquired the name and they were made by several contractors and now Dovo has the rights... the Monkhouse's are my favorite rendition of them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
    The Blackie's take a very, very, sharp long lasting edge, as to the difference between a JPM C-MON and a Carl Monkhouse C-MON I don't think I could tell the difference on my skin with my eyes closed...
    I have not seen a Monkhouse that doesn't say C-MON yet, but they might exsist, I have seen a JPM that is not a C-MON....
    there was a "carl monkhouse" blackie on ebay recently. wen't for like $25 probably because no one had the ebay search set right for it.

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    See Jim I thought it was the other way around, that JPM distributed them in the US for Monkhouse, then Monkhouse dropped JPM and distributed them for himself.... Then sold the Rights to the C-MON name....

    It is a mystery wrapped in a riddle, a true conundrum....

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    Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
    See Jim I thought it was the other way around, that JPM distributed them in the US for Monkhouse, then Monkhouse dropped JPM and distributed them for himself.... Then sold the Rights to the C-MON name....

    It is a mystery wrapped in a riddle, a true conundrum....

    I think we need and old person to answer this... where is Lynn or thebidspendur?
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    I read that Peter J. Michels was the only distributor of C-MON products, in the US, even after Carl Monkhouse moved to the US from Germany, in 1937. The company Peter J. Michels, Inc. closed in 1955.

    Not sure this is correct though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by English View Post
    YOU PUT IN YOUR MAXIMUM BID AND WALK AWAY.

    Why do you need a snype program to do this. Put in your maximum bid in e bay and walk away.

    Please tell me the trick I am missing. Am I being stupid. I really do not see the added advantage.

    Honest, I don't understand.

    If you outbid my maximum, I'm not disappointed. When I say a maximum I mean what I say.

    How does a snype program help.

    If you go to a "real" auction and don't have a maximum in your mind, the excitement of the auction will often lead you to spend more than is sensible. That is what the live auction is all about.

    But if you know this, why electronically would anybody not consider the true value before they make a bid.

    The truth is you will only win with a snype if you place the maximum bid.

    Think about it!

    Never understood it, never used one and never lostt an item I really wanted.

    Yes I've lost by $1 but that was alawys one $ more than I thought the item was worth.

    That doesn't upset me. In fact always after the event I fel happy because I usually set my max too high.
    There are other differences in addition to what Glen pointed out. Against you, no difference at all but you are probably not the typical end buyer/bidder on eBay. LOTs of people go to eBay to buy something for themselves that they plan on keeping. They look at an item and figure "heh, that would be a steal at $25 and I might even be willing to go all the way to $50. So they put in a bid at $25. Then a couple of hours before the end others start bidding. Our hero starts to get anxious as they blow by the $25 bid and it gets into the mid $40s. An hour to go and they're thinking "You know, I really do want that..." so they fire their $50 bid and figure maybe that'll be the end of it only to see a counter of $52. Ok, maybe that's all that guy is willing to go, so they fire a $55 bid, then a $60, then maybe they win it with $72. Maybe the person/people they're bidding against are doing the exact same thing.

    If our hero had used eBay's proxy bid and put in their "max" of $50 and someone else put in their "max" of $60 our hero would see that and probably decide to go over their "max" because they got emotional at the thought of losing the item. If you sniped they wouldn't have that opportunity.

    Think of it as your obligation to use a sniping program to help make others into better, more rational bidders

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