Unethical?

During the siege of Stalingrad a man came to the notice of the Soviet Police. He was very, uh, corpulant in a city suffering near starvation. When a bloodied woman ran screaming from his lodgings they burst in and put several tokarev pistol rounds into him, having to penetrate a very nice winter coat and considerable muscle and fat mass. They found a
secret avatoir and meat market and it wasn't borsche. In a city witnessing death his entrepenuership was unlawfull even if most of his victims statistically just as likely to die from a Stuka or artillary shell.
The price of a Paladin, Ben Sears, Wolfman is very much in line with the man hours and skill. Notice if you will some 'established names' do in fact charge higher prices for arguably no more, if not less. The ethics is when some well fed entrepenuer like our friend above does intrinsic harm to the community for personal gain. We may not be able to use tokarev pistols as solution, but that, is the meat of the issue.

£274 = $335 for a CH3 Manchurian Simpson.

I personally think that's a little rich. The two band Supers are nice but the Simpson allure, unfortunately, is not what it used to be.

The new LS/MS Finest direct from China for $50 delivered is a better brush in my opinion.

Mark Watterson talks of the Simpson history. Simpson's history ended in Somerset when David Carter bought the company from the Young family.

The brushes are just too expensive for what you get. Too many other more reasonably priced options available right now that perform as well or better.

any time you can get a brush for equal or better value it just shows how long they have been overcharging for what they sell.

If I had to pay more than 50 bucks for a brush to mash soap on my face.... I have too much money.

any time you can get a brush for equal or better value it just shows how long they have been overcharging for what they sell.

If I had to pay more than 50 bucks for a brush to mash soap on my face.... I have too much money.

I have 4 outstanding badger brushes, 2 excellent boar brushes, and a wonderful horsehair. All were under $40, except a silver tip in burl box elder that I purchased directly from a local wood turner. The stabilized wood handle was worth the cost of entry.

Point being that the market has provided some outstanding options for low cost/high quality hardware. There will always be people willing to pay for a name, a one-off custom, or a limited edition. There will always be people willing to pay to be part of some perceived elite. Resale prices of unavailable hardware will always reflect that desire.

That's how a free market operates...


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As always your comments are concise and to the point,

Brush-less creams are always a good option if you don't want to spend ANY money on a brush.

I was again using Vincent's The Starry Night predawn while meditating and plotting revolution. I found myself suddenly wondering ( meditation does that to me) who threw out all of his old painting supplies much like we do the non saleable possessions of Uncle Henry after going dutch on the economy cremation? I bet an old Van Gogh brush with proven provenance could buy a whole lot of shaving brushes today.
It's all in the buyer's wallet pocketed close to those loins we still think with to often. I personally find a Paladin or Brad Sears a bargain. I also want a prewar Rolls Royce but will probably buy a Ford Crown Vic retired police car to survive SOCAL traffic.
I will give Mark and Simpsons a pass on this forum. I twisted his tail enough over at Never Never Land and have enough lost boys ticked off at me.

not sure what the hell ya said, but I like the way ya said it.....

No one will agree on if a person who buys a limited edition item, or any item, and then resells it at a high profit margin. Say they get a tradere open comb razor from the maker, and then resell it on ebay for 900.00 as happened this year I believe.


No one will agree if getting an item from a buy sell trade posting on a shaving forum, and then reselling it on ebay for profit is good or bad.



But can anyone agree that if a shaving forum forces people to take a mandatory 20% price reduction from the makers MSRP is being ethical?

Example, if that paladin brush is worth 300$ by the makers MSRP, is it ethical if the shaving forum forces you to reduce the MSRP by 20% in order to sell it on their site?


The buy sell trade forums on most sites are supposedly only to be used by forum members to sell and trade with each other. Is it ethical if a person who makes their living selling items on ebay, uses the forums as a private auction house to acquire new goods to sell on ebay, or as a way to sell slow moving stuff on ebay directly to the forum>

No one will agree on if a person who buys a limited edition item, or any item, and then resells it at a high profit margin. Say they get a tradere open comb razor from the maker, and then resell it on ebay for 900.00 as happened this year I believe.


No one will agree if getting an item from a buy sell trade posting on a shaving forum, and then reselling it on ebay for profit is good or bad.



But can anyone agree that if a shaving forum forces people to take a mandatory 20% price reduction from the makers MSRP  is being ethical?

Example, if that paladin brush is worth 300$ by the makers MSRP, is it ethical if the shaving forum forces you to reduce the MSRP by 20% in order to sell it on their site?


The buy sell trade forums on most sites are supposedly only to be used by forum members to sell and trade with each other. Is it ethical if a person who makes their living selling items on ebay, uses the forums as a private auction house to acquire new goods to sell on ebay, or as a way to sell slow moving stuff on ebay directly to the forum>

good thing DFS exists and I don't personally see a problem with what most deem unacceptable and/or unethical on shaving b/s/t sections.