Just when you think you've seen it all...

I do no understand how this guy consistently gets the prices that he does and keeps good feedback? Nice pictures ? Good use of a zoom lens ? His razors always seem to go for insane prices ? I :ashamed001 once won a SS from them (when I first started), it wasn't as nice in person as it appeared in the pictures. :ashamed001 Live and learn. I though did try to apply his zoom lens technique to a couple of mint techs I had and I got over 40 bucks for each tech. I haven't done that since as I felt guilty selling a tech for so much.

 

Maybe its because this item had the word "barberpole"...:happy102

There are some sellers that have friends help them drive the price up..and then the friends dont pay a penny if someone else bids..

ST

 

Oh the cut-throat, take no prisoners, sellers paradise that is ebay.

Anyone remember when ebay was a place to find deals and goods cheaply?!? In most cases now, ebay is more expensive than Amazon.

 

Ouch. I would consider returning it, or a dispute. Because according to the pictures it looks like the doors close fine, and I see no damage to the knurling. Might be worth it, you might be able to at least get some of the money back.

Description quotes:
"The Head of this Razor is Bright & Shiny! The Butterfly Doors open Super Smoothly & Close Tightly! The Handle is bright & shiny! This Aristocrat's Gold Plating has withstood the Test of Time Amazingly~!! This Aristocrat looks Absolutely Gorgeous~!!!!"

"The most evident signs of age or wear even worthy of mention are some faint surface scratching to the head & a small blemish around the handle just under the upper ring~As shown in the photos~ "

 

Yeah, I remember those days. Sometimes you can find good deals on Etsy, but for the most part the shave stuff is pretty high dollar.

 

I dunno, but looking had his completed auctions makes me sick at the prices. Again, not his fault that people go bid crazy. Unless he really has those subliminal images in the pictures to trigger the "noobie gene"

 

Self-delusion , ignorance, greed. I never knew Buddhism's triple fire could apply to razor buying but apparently it does.

 

Hi JoAnna. I frequently watch the auctions at this seller. More often then not the feedback scores from many of the bidders are under 10. So they may be noobies to ebay and not necessarily youngsters. I have bought quite a few razors from this seller when they only sold BIN. I have not bought from them in quite some time because of the insane auctions. But I have corresponded with them a few times and inquired about the high prices. I was told it generally is a couple of young guys who go crazy bidding against each other. I don't understand it.

Len

 

Yes, shill bidding is always a possibility to consider. Easy to suspect, hard to prove; one shouldn't make accusations based on one fishy auction. The best evidence would be to watch a suspected seller's auctions over a long period of time. If he frequently uses shills, there would be patterns of bidding, and you might also see some items re-listed that had apparently already been sold. Some might also go to the second place bidder on "second chance offers", although I don't know if people other than the buyer and seller can see that.

The thing is, if I've decided that I'll go as high as say $20 for an item, a shill is not going to get me up above that. Yet another reason for always putting in last second bids.

Quite a while ago. I did turn down one second chance offer which set off alarm bells. A last second bid beat mine, but revealed what it was, about ten or fifteen dollars more than what had been showing before. Then the seller told me that the winner had backed out, and offered to sell at my maximum. I declined. This was before I started last second sniping myself. I think I need to add, though, that this was not the seller discussed in this thread.