Cheap 1st Shavette razor. Recommendations!

CjH said:
Hi
I've been using a DE razor for some time now and fancy dipping my toes into different waters.
Can anyone recommend a "Cheap" but worthy starter Shavette straight Razor.
I don't think I'm ready for stropping yet!

Any advice is welcome.
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The parker SRX is a great shaver, solid stainless steel so has good weight, around £26 and well worth it.
 
Or the Dovo...it is around £30 but is really light, you have several options with the dove, you can use a long blade (halved) or a de halved, I bought the pre cut blades coz no ragged bits to lift the blade off the seat, again, mine is stainless but because they have plastic inserts that carry the blade they are incredibly light, the long blade is more akin to a SR, and is good to get practice on.....buy cheap buy twice.
 
i was looking for a feather folding clone if possible but cant seem to find any clones on eBay.. i don't want to shell out what a true feather ac folding cost until i see if i would like it first.
 
jaro1069 said:
since they dont take paypal ali express is a no go so suggestions for looking on ali express wont help though....
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WOW, PayPal reallly loves a buyer like you! I hope you're also aware that they charge more as the in-between payment gateway of you and the vendor than any other option on this rock, in fact in total about ~1% of your total purchase price more overhead...so basically, by firmly voting with your £ this way, you've permanently given away 1% of your money's actual purchasing power [for if the poor vendors didn't have to bow down to PP, they'd have 1% less overhead, which due to competition for your money eventually winds its way back to your wallet].

My wife & kids love AliExpress. If you're not known to them and you buy something that's been on their platform a long time with good reviews from your side of the world and you want to make a fight, I'd admit the odds aren't best in that scenario.

But on the other hand if you're a frequent buyer from them with a known history of buying and keeping stuff from their platform and you get sent a piece of shyte that doesn't have a long history on their platform of good reviews from others, all you need do is open a dispute and provide some meaningful words and pictures...their little kangaroo court is at least as pro-buyer skewed as PayPal's equivalent, and in fact is much more so to my view, as PP is just a gateway to many millions of vendors where they only need to establish your confidence in the gateway itself, while AliExpress has the MUCH higher bar to clear of being their own payment gateway AND shopping mall in one, from CN no less...they *need* the pro-buyer rep much, much more than PP does. Even when you're the early recipient of the CN vendor's common process of making their move toward disposing of their current reseller's name value by decreasing the quality of the item and wagering enough customers won't bother with the dispute that their production savings exceed their predicted dispute losses, a firm and intelligent posting with some pictures makes for an instant refund.

PP "fires" customers that go over their head by initiating a bank card charge back outside of their virtual walls - they do this routinely, actually. I want to see AliExpress have the temerity of doing that!

You're really worried about laying down <15£ at risk to try something possibly well made for much less from China?!? That's crazy risk aversion.

For a good 'cheap' first Shavette type razor made in Italy, see if you can find someone in the UK selling the Focus R21 (of course, only by PayPal). It will cost you <20£ and is brilliantly produced.
 
thesuperiorshave said:
WOW, PayPal reallly loves a buyer like you! I hope you're also aware that they charge more as the in-between payment gateway of you and the vendor than any other option on this rock, in fact in total about ~1% of your total purchase price more overhead...so basically, by firmly voting with your £ this way, you've permanently given away 1% of your money's actual purchasing power [for if the poor vendors didn't have to bow down to PP, they'd have 1% less overhead, which due to competition for your money eventually winds its way back to your wallet].

My wife & kids love AliExpress. If you're not known to them and you buy something that's been on their platform a long time with good reviews from your side of the world and you want to make a fight, I'd admit the odds aren't best in that scenario.

But on the other hand if you're a frequent buyer from them with a known history of buying and keeping stuff from their platform and you get sent a piece of shyte that doesn't have a long history on their platform of good reviews from others, all you need do is open a dispute and provide some meaningful words and pictures...their little kangaroo court is at least as pro-buyer skewed as PayPal's equivalent, and in fact is much more so to my view, as PP is just a gateway to many millions of vendors where they only need to establish your confidence in the gateway itself, while AliExpress has the MUCH higher bar to clear of being their own payment gateway AND shopping mall in one, from CN no less...they *need* the pro-buyer rep much, much more than PP does. Even when you're the early recipient of the CN vendor's common process of making their move toward disposing of their current reseller's name value by decreasing the quality of the item and wagering enough customers won't bother with the dispute that their production savings exceed their predicted dispute losses, a firm and intelligent posting with some pictures makes for an instant refund.

PP "fires" customers that go over their head by initiating a bank card charge back outside of their virtual walls - they do this routinely, actually. I want to see AliExpress have the temerity of doing that!

You're really worried about laying down <15£ at risk to try something possibly well made for much less from China?!? That's crazy risk aversion.

For a good 'cheap' first Shavette type razor made in Italy, see if you can find someone in the UK selling the Focus R21 (of course, only by PayPal). It will cost you <20£ and is brilliantly produced.
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Ok so that post was to suggest looking for focus r21. Thanks for recommendation.. And the reason for paypal is simply that's what i use online. Period.
 
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