I "collect" other things. Maybe that's too strong a word - let's just say I have other interests besides razors which mysteriously guide me to eBay a lot . Hey, I like to look at ALL interesting collectibles. Always have. I don't really collect razors, per se, but I do enjoy looking at them - I have for a while - and like to bid on the occasional new razor experience if the price is right. Here's my point (after this long preface). I've noticed a kind of unsettling pattern with razors that I don't see in my other eBay interests of late: the sheer rapacity with which other people interested in razors - collecting or otherwise - "act" on the merchandise. This seems different than it did, say, even a year ago. Currently as I watch, when a razor gets put up it is - WHAM! - bid on sometimes immediately, as if a crumb has been dropped into a pondful of sharks. And often, too, there's a quasi-heated and almost venomous back and forth on some razors, where the bidding becomes something tantamount to road rage.
Now I don't know if there's anything I can extrapolate from any of this but I have come to this conclusion: The tone, for lack of a better word, seems to have changed with regard to razors and eBay. And it seems kind of offputting too me. There's been introduced a certain aggressiveness, I think. I used to see this at old sales with books - dealers would push and shove just to get in first and grab the good ones (one person even took a book OUT OF my wife's hands!). Whatever the case, this tenor seems to be new, which is a bit of a shame but seems to happen with "collecting."
Like I said, I don't really collect old razors - but I love to shave with them. So for my part, I think, summer's coming - so I'll soon be thinking about those outsde flea markets.
Now I don't know if there's anything I can extrapolate from any of this but I have come to this conclusion: The tone, for lack of a better word, seems to have changed with regard to razors and eBay. And it seems kind of offputting too me. There's been introduced a certain aggressiveness, I think. I used to see this at old sales with books - dealers would push and shove just to get in first and grab the good ones (one person even took a book OUT OF my wife's hands!). Whatever the case, this tenor seems to be new, which is a bit of a shame but seems to happen with "collecting."
Like I said, I don't really collect old razors - but I love to shave with them. So for my part, I think, summer's coming - so I'll soon be thinking about those outsde flea markets.
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