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33 bids?

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Fat Boy's seem really hot lately. I was browsing for a while last night. Lady Gillette's too.
 
What the......

$300 for a razor that gets put to auction at least once every single day of the year. There are probably 20 other FatBoys on eBay in this condition right now, and it sold for Double Ring prices.
 
Everything was fairly steady until i***4 jumped from $150 to $250 in one bid. Another fishy eBay sale. This is one of the reasons I frequent eBay as little as possible.
 
Pssst....only one explanation..it's "THE MAN" doing this. At great risk to myself I found where this insane bidding was coming from..:001_tongu
With unlimited funds and people, we are doomed.
 

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He's going to kick himself when he finds out he can get a better shave from a NEW at a tenth of the price.

Cheers,

Rick
 
Looks like there were two guys who really wanted that razor and had a bidding war regardless of price. Either one could have easily gotten the same razor for have the final price paid.
 
Good lord, that's insanity.

About a year ago I bought a Fat Boy in better condition than that one w/the box & blades on ebay for $60. It even had the original instruction pamphlet.
 
I submitted the first bid on this item, and, if I remember correctly, I think I broke a 'Buy It Now' option of like $60.00.

I am still in shock that this razor went so high. I bet the seller is glad that it went to auction.

I probably spent an hour looking at the listing and photographs the other day trying to figure out if I had missed some important details. At one point, I had myself convinced that it was a 'Red Dot' but...that idea was squashed pretty quickly when I saw the bottom of the head.
 
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Something isn't right about this auction, but I can't put my finger on it. There are a few typical scenarios I can think of where eBay prices get really out of whack:
A bidder using sniping software or website decides he's going to win this auction "no matter what." This usually happens with relatively rare items. Someone will just enter a ridiculously high price into their sniping program, and they'll outbid everyone at the last minute and win the auction. The trouble is, sometimes two people have this same idea. I've seen $50 items go for $4,005 because of this. My guess is that 9 times out of 10, the top buyer or buyers renege on their bid. The only penalty is a ding in your eBay reputation, which is worth decidedly less than $3,950. (Assuming it's not something you do more than once.) This doesn't appear to be one of those instances, because when the above happens, the price shoots way, way up in the last 10 seconds of the auction.
The other common thing is shill bidding. That's when a seller wants to push up the price of his item, so he opens another eBay account and bids on the item, forcing people to pay more than they would otherwise. If he wins his own auction, he can just "pay" himself, then re-list the item under the other account at a later date.
But, eBay fights very vigilantly against shill bidding. At the very least, it will get your account and your IP address instantly banned, no questions asked. eBay runs software algorithms which look at where the bids are coming from, and analyzes the timing of the bids. Shill bidding usually follows a predictable pattern, and if you look at the bid history on this auction, it kinda fits the pattern. g***f bids early, and bids often.
However, if this case is shill bidding, and if g***f is the shill, then he got stupid and greedy. The final bid was placed two days before the auction ended, so if he was trying to push up the price, he was going for a real home run. And like I said before, eBay will find you if you engage in shill bidding, and shill bidding in any auction is a federal crime. Selling a $50 razor for $300 is not worth federal charges, IMHO.
The only other possibility I can think of is maybe this specific razor had some kind of sentimental value to someone, and another person decided he was going to be a jerk and win it anyway. I experienced something similar to this when my grandfather died, although it was a live auction, not eBay. He had a handmade wooden toolbox that my mom really wanted. She remembered him making it when she was a little girl, and it was deeply sentimental. (How it ended up in the auction is a different story...) Anyhow, one of the antique dealers noticed she was eyeing it, and consciously decided to be a jerk. He knew she was going to pay whatever it cost to get that toolbox, so he just kept pushing the price up. Finally, the other people at the auction started booing him and yelling at him, and he stopped, but my mom paid way too much for it. (And she would have paid more, too.)

Anyone else have any other ideas? I've explored everything I can think of, but perhaps there's some devious scheme that I haven't thought of at play here? It's just really difficult to accept such a high price paid for such a run-of-the-mill item, especially seeing as that it wasn't a heated bidding war. It was a slow, methodical, seemingly thought-out creep to an utterly unreasonable price.
 
Wish I was the Seller :eek:(

I Think soon I will start buyingall the Fatboys up and Release them omgs a Month. Just to make them more scarce and more Profitable, Baugh just kidding I wouldn't do that, but at these prices it's Tempting.
 
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