Thread: Where can I find out what my razors are worth?

To get a pointer of the value you could check the archive in the classifieds for similar razors, but as said before, an item's value is what someone is willing to pay.

One person's Crap is another's art......

Originally Posted by Str8Shooter

One person's Crap is another's art......

I've got some great art I'd like to sell you. It's pretty surreal AND 4 dimensional. (the 4th dimension is smell)

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

If you do a search on ebay, in the straight razor category, for specific brands, you may find some matches. In the menu on page left is 'completed items'. That is a function I use quite a bit when searching for market prices on one item or another.

That's what I'd be doing. Also make sure you look at the ones that have actually sold, not what someone has listed them for. Quite often they are very very different.

Originally Posted by zappbrannigan

To clarify, I pointed you to Ebay because of something my dad always told us: "Something is only worth as much as someone else is willing to pay for it." So if you want to find out how valuable something is, ask the person who's willing to buy it for the highest price.

we must be brothers cuz my dad says that all the time too.

+1 on the classifieds, eBay. You might want to check this book out, but not sure how accurate the prices are. I would only use it as a reference guide. I hope this helps.

I have a little experience getting less than I thought things would go for on ebay.

I second the original comment, sell it on ebay and see what it's worth. I sold three razors I had on ebay, the pictures were good but a little dim and I was trying to be more than fair about the description. Two were german razors (one loose with a cracked scale) and two of the three had good tight scales, none had a nick, all had been honed through a chosera 10k. I got....ready? $17 for all three of them. Years ago, someone sold me one of those three (krusius bros) razors with dull pictures and advertised it as "shave ready" claiming to have just enjoyed a very close shave from the razor. It arrived with a frown and was by no means close to sharp.

List them to sell on a saturday afternoon, take GREAT pictures (good light, clear, large - settle for nothing less, even though they're not the easiest thing in the world to photograph), and describe everything about them with pictures to back it up. Unless they're rare, guarantee if you don't do that, you'll be disappointed in what they bring.

I *think* I just used this issue on ebay to my favor yesterday, and have in the past, buying razors in good shape from people who knew nothing about them and chose to post "I know nothing about razors" in their sale descriptions for otherwise decent looking razors.