$250 for 5 blades?

VR6ofpain · 03-09-2009, 07:47 PM

Is this auction for real? How on earth can he be serious about getting this much for 5 vintage DE blades?

http://cgi.ebay.com/5-G-F-FOSTERS-BL...3A1|240%3A1318

**MrGuy** · 03-09-2009, 07:54 PM

Those must be some wicked nice blades!

If this is a joke, I've heard better

**Ignatius** · 03-09-2009, 07:57 PM

Sometimes people put things like this on the bay as a sort of lottery; there is probably someone somewhere in the world who will agree to pay that. My friends disabled cousin bought something in a similar way on ebay for more money than this; I don't they think could get the money back.

ps, there's a chance these are solid gold and diamond encrusted, I'm not a blade expert...

**rodd** · 03-09-2009, 08:07 PM

wow.

**jkh** · 03-09-2009, 08:10 PM

I almost hit the Buy It Now, but luckily I noticed the shipping was $2.49 ... waaaayyyyyyy too much

**scottydoint** · 03-09-2009, 08:38 PM

I think I'll buy them and give them as a gift.

**bunchoffives** · 03-09-2009, 08:41 PM

Apparently his first set of these went for $160 (and that was in auction format!)

http://cgi.ebay.com/5-G-F-FOSTERS-BL...QQcmdZViewItem

**JimBow** · 03-09-2009, 08:44 PM

Maybe they're made of polar bear blubber........

**scottydoint** · 03-09-2009, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by JimBow

Maybe they're made of polar bear blubber........

I bet blubber would make a superb lubricant for a shaving soap

**JimBow** · 03-09-2009, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by scottydoint

I bet blubber would make a superb lubricant for a shaving soap

Hmmm, I wonder if Proraso is making a Blue Tube utilizing polar bear or whale blubber.........

**RoyalKooparillo** · 03-09-2009, 08:55 PM

It's ONLY $50 per blade guys.

Hmmm, so considering we can buy around 200 blades for 50 bucks (figuring 3 shaves per blade)...you'd only need to get about 600 shaves per blade to make these cost effective. No problem!

**Bertilak** · 03-09-2009, 08:56 PM

Search eBay " Collectibles > Vanity, Perfume & Shaving > Shaving > Safety Razors" or simply "All Categories" for "YALE DOUBLE EDGE RAZOR WITH BLADE/RARE"

Given not just the scale but the unusually precise amounts, might there be something going on here other than simple auctions?

**rm71** · 03-09-2009, 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by VR6ofpain

Is this auction for real? How on earth can he be serious about getting this much for 5 vintage DE blades?

http://cgi.ebay.com/5-G-F-FOSTERS-BL...3A1|240%3A1318

Easy. One of my favourite Einstein lines
" The difference between genius and stupidity, is that genius has it's limits".

**bunchoffives** · 03-09-2009, 09:04 PM

Anyone have any explanations for why the first set went so high? $250 BuyItNow is absurd, sure, but it's not that absurd considering the first set went for $160 in auction format.

Right now I'm just assuming that there are two robber barons named G.M. Foster that engage in furious bidding wars to buy everything with their name on it.

**ClubmanRob** · 03-09-2009, 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by bunchoffives

Anyone have any explanations for why the first set went so high? $250 BuyItNow is absurd, sure, but it's not that absurd considering the first set went for $160 in auction format.

Right now I'm just assuming that there are two robber barons named G.M. Foster that engage in furious bidding wars to buy everything with their name on it.

Shill bid, perhaps? If those blades are so rare, how did he come upon two packs of them?

In Clubman Rob's overly paranoid world he sees a man placing a high "ringer" winning bid on his own pack of blades, then waiting to re-list that same box for an absurdly high BIN so he can say "Look at what the last box went for at auction!"

Stranger (and shadier things) have happened.

**Stubblefield** · 03-09-2009, 09:24 PM

Aww, c'mon, they're BLUE . . . .

Originally Posted by Robert Paulsen

Search eBay " Collectibles > Vanity, Perfume & Shaving > Shaving > Safety Razors" or simply "All Categories" for "YALE DOUBLE EDGE RAZOR WITH BLADE/RARE"

Sorting by price yields some interesting results . . . .

**tom myers** · 03-09-2009, 09:41 PM

If you check some of his other auctions, he also has a 195 for $995 and a Superspeed for $175 etc.

I don't know what's going on but something is kind of odd because, on the other hand, he has some items for rather normal prices.

Regards,
Tom

**pokermon919** · 03-09-2009, 09:42 PM

Look at his fatboy

http://cgi.ebay.com/195-GILLETTE-1-9...QQcmdZViewItem

He declined my offer of $30

**ClubmanRob** · 03-09-2009, 09:49 PM

Originally Posted by pokermon919

Look at his fatboy

http://cgi.ebay.com/195-GILLETTE-1-9...QQcmdZViewItem

He declined my offer of $30

You're kidding

It's $uper Rare! Of course it's worth a grand!

**bennyJ82** · 03-09-2009, 10:30 PM

Originally Posted by ClubmanRob

You're kidding

It's $uper Rare! Of course it's worth a grand!

I don't know. What's really selling it for me is the usage of exclamation points in the description. Something with that many exclamation points just has to be good.

Razor measures almost 3 1/2 inches in total length!

Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode.