Wahl Eversharp folks:

Based on the soaring prices on Wahl Eversharp items lately, you would think the recession bargain theory is null and void. Now I can well understand how super-rare Oversized Dorics in Cathay even with crystallization, broken off ends, a barrel crack and super discoloration could go for $280 and that might be mostly due to the super rare #10 adjustable nib and salvageable clip, band, lever, etc. I bid $275 for those reasons and lost. And I thought that was high enough to get it for less! No sour grapes here, just raised eyebrows. I'm impressed!

Link:
Cathay Doric

But now I notice another eBay item, This one is the smaller size or ladies student model pen that folks have come to call the "tulip clip" in coral (a premium color for sure) approaching the price usually reserved for Big Dorics and some Deco Bands. There's still an hour left so you still have a shot at this one. (Usual disclaimer - I have no interest, etc), and Al's pens are usually top grade.

Coral Tulip Clip

One sale does not necessarily establish "value", even if the auction houses sure think so. Like I said, maybe you should check that your Wahl-Eversharp pens are safely stored, and well insured!

Syd

Guess i gotta raise the price on the big blue tulip on my website

d

Naw, Looks to me like you are well protected against sellers remorse on that one should it go as listed! :-)

Technically, we are not yet in the recession.

I've spotted the above Coral Tulip Clip early, when it had (if I remember) a BIN of $ 170! The auction established a final price of $ 370, $ 200 more the the BIN price. Someone must have done a mistake of some kind. The question is who: the seller who put a low BIN, or the buyers who offered more than double the BIN tag?

Thanks for the input. Your are probably technically correct, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is either Dr. I or it's a duck. So maybe I should have said the "weak economy" instead of Recession.

However, I am responding here to steer the thread back to Wahl-Eversharp pens and so we don't go off on a tangent on economics. Lets just say that a lot of people seem to be off-loading excess good quality merchandise including fountain pens at the moment, and that seems to be related to personal cas flow issues. In spite of that the prices for good pens seems to be unaffected. Anyone else see the value/price for pens dropping?

Syd

Syd - Wahlnut:

You never cease to amaze us. Such a neat collection, such a knowledge of Wahl's pens, yet such a humility. Syd, you deserve a song:

Syd, Syd, what you ever did,
To this topic on pens with lid,
Syd, Syd, you are great,
Wahl's pens, you never hate!
Syd, Syd, you are a joy,
Wahl's pens are just your toy!
Syd, Syd sitting in our mid,
Walh's pens are for you to bid!
Syd, Syd, what you ever did
To this topic on pens with lid!.

Why must there have been a mistake?

-david

Yah, when we're in the perhaps inevitable Greater Depression, it won't be officially recognized until all in office are well out

d

From the listing on the Doric, it looks like the cap was completely intact. That alone would have made the final price a bargain, at least for anyone with an oversize Cathay Doric with a good barrel and a bad cap.

Regarding the Buy It Now on the coral Wahl:
The Buy It Now option disappears as soon as the item's reserve is met, or as soon as a bid is received if the item is listed with no reserve. So I suspect those who put the last few bids in only spotted the pen after bidding had already reached the reserve.