I'd like to chime in on a transaction I experienced when I first started on SRP. I never bought it up with the members cause it eventually worked itself out.

A seller that had like 350 post counts and was a member since Jan 2007 was selling three razors. He'd sold a few before (Maestro and a robert williams) and no complaints were written so I figured he wasn't a scam artist. The picture was so so and he described the razors as three beautiful razors. Not Shave Ready but suggested a light honing.

I paid for all three razors and asked him to send it to Lynn to be honed. Lynn got them and I asked Lynn his honest opinion. Lynn said the razors were in so so condition. There was rust around the pivot areas and some pitting on the blades. This was not mentioned in the ad and it wasn't evident in the picture. Essentially, I overpaid. I was not happy. I asked Lynn to proceed with the honing since I've already paid for em, I'll use them. Lynn was kind enough to offer his expert opinion if I needed it when corresponding with the seller. Lynn honed the razors but he said they definitely needed more than a light honing. To the seller's defense, Lynn did say that he's corresponded with the seller before and he was always upfront with him.

I was finally able to contact the seller after several PM's and he explained to me that he was going through some personal problems. I explained to him the situation with the honing and the undisclosed rust spots pitting and he refunded some of the honing costs to me.

After that situation, it left a bad taste in my mouth for buying from BST, mainly because I expected full disclosure. But because of the excellent honing from Lynn I now have three so so looking razors that are excellent shavers!! So it didn't turn out that bad afterall.

I'm more concerned with accountability than price. Case in point, I purchased a razor from a member here end of last year. It's an excellent shaver. I wanted to find out more info about it cause it didn't have any origin markings. I plugged in google what was on the razor and I found that very razor on ebay. So I know exactly what the seller paid for it. But I didn't care because for the price I paid, the seller has taken the razor back twice to repin and retighten. He stood by his work and I'm very thankful for it. So he deserves every cent.


I guess the point I'm making is that if you sell on BST,regardless of the selling price you need to stand by your stuff. I don't want to have to worry bout my transaction. If I am willing to pay the asking price, then that's the price for me.