Artificial scarcity

If you're willing to pay $100 for a tin of Bufflehead, contact me directly. I'll make sure you get one and I'll donate the rest of your money to charity.

I like your attitude.

$200 for a soap is just crazy, but it's not out of my pocket and I don't care what others do with their money.

When Pannacrema released the Nuavia line, 2 years ago, I bought both of them. They were about 37.5% less expensive back then. They are amazing soaps, but I get equally great shaves from other soaps I have. Many think they don't worth the price, I'm with them on that. Since they don't offer refills, I won't buy them again when they are finished. With the rotation I have, that will happen in 5 years by now.

In today's market there are a lot of truly top tier artisans... Most have ample supply to meet demand. I'll go to them every time and buy at MSRP.

Trying to get a small batch soap at some odd hour with 100 other people all refreshing their browsers? Not my thing. I might try occasionally for fun, sure. But I sure as hell wouldn't chase after it on eBay or BST forums and pay $50, $100 - or more. That's nuts. To those collectors and greedy types dealing in the Unobtainium Trade - you suck. You're purely motivated by profit and probably denied someone genuine a chance to try that product - and you're short-changing the artisan for your own profit. Yeah, yeah, "it's a free market."

Life's too short. Support a top tier artisan directly, that doesn't need to play games. All the rest... Do it for sport.

So charge $125 and drop a coin of overseas 'funny money' into each soap redeeamble with the empty container for the overcharge to kill post sale scalping ( less added hassle and a donation to charity.) In a world where corporations ARE screwing the consumer and planet this sour grapes scapegoating of the artisans in wetshaving is right up there with trophy wives in STARBUCKS having a meltdown because their lemon pastry is sold out

I was waiting behind her in Starbucks this morning and it was the almond croissants that were sold out. She certainly was pissed.

Still on the first wife thank God.

In a world where corporations ARE screwing the consumer and planet this sour grapes scapegoating of the artisans in wetshaving is right up there with trophy wives in STARBUCKS having a meltdown because their lemon pastry is sold out

You mean like Google, whose YouTube hosts innumerable wetshaving videos? Or SOTRACO, PPP Intl, Omega, Proraso and all the rest? Without big corporations, we wouldn't have a lot of the shaving products we know and love. Sure, there are some Big Evil Corps around. I have worked for a couple in the past that were worse than you could possibly imagine. Not all are like that, though, especially if they have beer busts on Friday. You're right about all the crybaby whining, though. Wetshaving has gone from manly to prissy. Not to worry, it will all sort itself out. There will always be artisans around, if for no other reason than that there will always be folks who want to artisanate.

Gillette may be about profit and they should be. Its a business.
I do constantly see the South Boston company giving back to the community locally and throughout New England.
They are very generous with time and money in this regard.

Vito Corleone had a business model. I'll buy his olive oil before I go near Jeff Bezos. Forum rules preclude getting to verbal about altruistic corporations and economic systems. Co Opts- we need a Co Opt or guild of soap makers individually selling product with a means of pooling
resources, knowledge and locally appropriate models for each artisan.