1961 FatBoy Sold for $505.00 0n Ebay!!! Link posted

Bluedevil · Post by **Bluedevil** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:38 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=004

Rich53 · Post by **Rich53** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:43 pm

Do you have a link?

minderasr · Post by **minderasr** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:17 pm

Occam · Post by **Occam** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:29 pm

Hmm no instruction sheet... I'd say the buyer will have some remorse and no sale will take place... especially if someone messages him to let him know what a sucker he's been.

Occam · Post by **Occam** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:39 pm

Actually if you look at the bids...

true_north42( 18Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $505.00
Feb-28-08 20:32:51 PST

u***m( 2 ) US $500.00
Feb-27-08 01:38:29 PST

u***m( 2 ) US $300.00
Feb-27-08 01:36:41 PST

6***s( 28Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $205.00
Feb-23-08 18:41:45 PST

6***s( 28Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $200.00
Feb-21-08 21:34:51 PST

u***m( 2 ) US $200.00
Feb-27-08 01:36:24 PST

u***m( 2 ) US $100.00
Feb-27-08 01:36:07 PST

u***y( 0 ) US $64.00
Feb-26-08 21:29:50 PST

u***y( 0 ) US $60.00
Feb-26-08 21:29:30 PST

u***y( 0 ) US $58.00
Feb-26-08 21:29:00 PST

u***y( 0 ) US $56.00
Feb-26-08 21:28:45 PST

u***y( 0 ) US $54.00
Feb-26-08 21:28:31 PST

e***e( 8 ) US $50.00
Feb-26-08 14:20:20 PST

m***m( 1 ) US $34.00
Feb-24-08 13:17:52 PST

m***m( 1 ) US $31.00
Feb-24-08 13:17:28 PST

m***m( 1 ) US $28.50
Feb-24-08 13:17:01 PST

m***m( 1 ) US $25.00
Feb-24-08 13:16:44 PST

m***m( 1 ) US $20.00
Feb-24-08 13:16:28 PST

y***d( 2333Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) US $1.04
Feb-22-08 05:54:23 PST

you see that the u***m fellow put a bid in from 01:36 onwards to chip away and outbid the 6***s guy.

Then s/he had the highest bid at $207.50.

They then put in two 'protection bids' of $300 and $500 after getting the highest bid.

Now the final guy steps in at the last minute... 20:32:51 4 seconds out from the end of the auction and puts in a wild high bid hoping to definitively win. Maybe even a tonyespo smackdown bid of a million bucks thinking that he'd only pay something slightly over the $207.50 winning bid at that stage... but the $500 bid of the u***m guy gets activated and whammo... you now have a $505 razor

Lesson: Even if you are sniping only put up what you are really prepared to pay as a final price... unless you want it at any cost... then bid a million bucks

I won a #66 on my maximum bid the other night. I put in a price of $X several hours before the end thinking I'd lose... the bidding was at $137 or so... I woke to find someone had tried a snipe at 50 cents less than my final bid and I'd won by the skin of my teeth. Didn't expect to win, almost didn't want to win...

Big Swifty · Post by **Big Swifty** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:43 pm

I really hate the sniping programs...
They have taken all the fun out of ebay.

southpaw · Post by **southpaw** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:33 pm

I don't bet, but if I did, my money would be on the sale NOT going through based on the bid history.

tonyespo · Post by **tonyespo** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:00 am

To clear this matter up I never bid a million dollars. I have bid $1000 twice. They were for razors that I wanted to own and I was willing to spend a grand if I had to. On both razors I got them for less than 1/2 of what I was willing to pay. I love the snipe programs because they allow me to go to bed and not worry about getting outbid when I really want to own something.

Occam · Post by **Occam** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:10 am

tonyespo wrote:To clear this matter up I never bid a million dollars. I have bid $1000 twice. They were for razors that I wanted to own and I was willing to spend a grand if I had to. On both razors I got them for less than 1/2 of what I was willing to pay. I love the snipe programs because they allow me to go to bed and not worry about getting outbid when I really want to own something.

My apologies Tony, it is almost an urban legend...

Nevertheless you've given any contenders some valuable information. That to win a razor from you they would have to bid $1001 only... a bargain

Or put another way, to make you pay all you can that they simply bid $999

prism · Post by **prism** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:27 am

Incredible! It does'nt look like our secret world (as Michael/Bargepole referred to it) is such a secret anymore! Seems like the GQ/Cigar Afficianado crowd is getting into wetshaving. I've noticed that prices have (generally) doubled from a year ago, with some notable exceptions.

I paid $65 for this (H2) last July; it is now routinely fetching $200. If anyone is thinking of selling their vintage Gillettes, looks like now is the time.

Mickey_85 · Post by **Mickey_85** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:30 am

My God i have 4 mint fatboys in cases(one with instructions) which i paid $50 US shipped to Melbourne Australia. I hope the buyer of this razor likes flushing his money down the toilet.

Occam · Post by **Occam** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:44 am

Mickey_85 wrote:My God i have 4 mint fatboys in cases(one with instructions) which i paid $50 US shipped to Melbourne Australia. I hope the buyer of this razor likes flushing his money down the toilet.

You wouldn't want to sell one by any chance?

Post by **ichabod** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:40 am

Does ebay block out bidder ID's by putting *** in the middle of them these days? It's a while since I looked.

If not, that list of bidders looks very odd.

Also - and it's hard to tell from photographs either way, but the razor didn't look quite "mint" to me.

(This from a guy who's never bid more than $50 on a razor, by the way.)

Zach · Post by **Zach** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:42 am

I too was thinking that there's no way this razor has 'never been used'

stephen732 · Post by **stephen732** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 10:30 am

damn, i own a nice 1961 fatboy too, it only cost me $15. i'd be happy to get $100 lol

brothers · Post by **brothers** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 5:20 am

Like Tony, I also love the option of sniping, because you don't have to jack around with penny ante nibbling. You just bid what you think it will take to win, and you wait. If I win, I'm happy, but if I lose, then I say, well I just saved a whole lot of money!. Win-Win!