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Yea, me too but I am wrong more times than I am right WRT speculating.

Bob

The rarer models in NOS condition of almost any out of production consumer good is collectable and collectors are speculators not really interested in the using of said consumer goods. I fully...

OK, got that and kind of suspected that in the first place. People like to speculate in a lot of things but I am still skeptical on future growth.

bob

I would not bet on that. It is like extrapolating where the stock market and your particular stock will be in 2019. Like they say "past performance is not an indicator of future performance".

Bob

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...

Yea, no doubt reputations were made before the internet. Just how reputations are made consists of a few factors not just performance of a certain task alone. There is good advertising/marketing that...

Not all DDs are "ornamental", consider the DD Special No 1. My guess would be same quality steel as the fancy Goldedges and such. Ornamental has nothing to do with the quality of the shave. Yes they...

If tried and true Gencos were well acknowledged they would be the same price as those other brands both then and now but they weren't and aren't now. So there must other reasons to explain the...

Yea, they are "known" brands that proved they can deliver deliver and they have been talked up. Other lesser known brands have been mentioned to hone and shave well but not talked up as much so...

Good point, bragging rights enter into it too but mean very little if the object is to to get a decent shave.

Bob

Personally, nothing makes them so special. They are expensive because the demand is there, they get talked up much, and the supply is limited especially NOS razors. Arguably there are other razors...