NEW Black Diamond RAVEN Mountaineering ICE AXE 80 CM Start Price USD 49.95 Current Price USD 49.95 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, September 06, 2008 End Time Tuesday, September 09, 2008 Location West Jordan, UT See more about 'NEW Black Diamond RAVEN Mountaineering ICE AXE 80 CM' Description Brand New Black Diamond Raven Classic Piolet 80 cm in Length Retails for $79.95 I have used the Raven on ascents of peaks in the wasatch mountains, and I love it.  The head is by far the most comfortable to hold on to of any ice axe made today.  The Black Diamond Raven is a dream to carry, and has amazing stopping and chopping power.  The boys and girls in BDs engineering department are amazing.  You will know what I mean when you wrap your fingers around one. Official Description: The Raven has set the new standard for general mountaineering. The one-piece stainless steel head is perfectly formed, both ergonomically and functionally, and will not rust. Easy to hold and switch to self-arrest mode, the Raven’s strong design also includes a bigger adze for chopping steps in hard ice. One-piece stainless head offers superb durability and will not rust Ergonomically sculpted for comfort Bigger adze for burly chopping sessions Wieght 1.2 lbs Check out our feedback and bid with confidence!  Policies   We have always tried to provide excellent customer service, and fair shipping charges.  We take our feedback seriously, and have always tried to solve any matters that have arisen in a way that is satisfactory to our customers.  In the thousands of transactions we’ve conducted over the years we very rarely gave any negative feedback scores to our customers.  However, due to the recent ebay changes we are not allowed to give any negative feedback at all and so we are making the following changes in the way we conduct our auctions in order to protect ourselves.   We will now only offer Priority Mail or Global Express Mail for shipping options.  We have offered less expensive shipping options in the past, but customers get upset and blame us when the parcel post option they selected takes 2 or more weeks to arrive.  We are afraid that these angry customers will leave us the negative feedback that is really due to the postal service because we cannot respond with like feedback for them.   Shipping insurance will no longer be optional, but required for larger dollar value items.   We now reserve the right to cancel any bids placed by bidders that appear to be in the habit of routinely leaving negative feedback to other sellers.   We reserve the right to block any bidder from future auctions if they have left us unwarranted negative feedback.   We reserve the right to cancel any bidder with a feedback score of 0.   We have always tried to only charge $1.50 -$2.00 for handling fees to help cover the expenses for some of the boxes we use for shipping (that actually cost us up to $3.40).   Due to the drastic increase in final value fees that ebay is now charging, we will be increasing our handling fees by approximately $1.00 of what they were in the past.  (This increase will not off set the new fees, but will now come closer to actually covering the costs of the shipping supplies.)   We apologize if this upsets our customers, but we feel that these changes are the only way that we can afford to continue selling on ebay Place a Bid!