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How long does a razor really last? Gillette comes clean - Fortune Management

When I read that all I could think was lies, lies, lies. First it was about a week, then it's 5 weeks? And common sense dictates how long those cartidges last is going to be different for everyone, depending on beard, skin, and how often one shaves. I am glad to hear about straight razor and safety razors rising popularity. I didn't even read about it in a magazine. I was just fed up with gilettes expensive, unimpressive, disposable crap filling up our planets landfills.

Originally Posted by WoppA

When I read that all I could think was lies, lies, lies. First it was about a week, then it's 5 weeks? And common sense dictates how long those cartidges last is going to be different for everyone, depending on beard, skin, and how often one shaves. I am glad to hear about straight razor and safety razors rising popularity. I didn't even read about it in a magazine. I was just fed up with gilettes expensive, unimpressive, disposable crap filling up our planets landfills.

well said sir, well said..

I don't know how I started looking about them, but was tired of paying so much for something that hurt.

Being disabled, retired and on a fixed income forced me to come up with an alternative method of shaving. A buck a cartridge average that lasted 3-4 shaves was more than enough for me to make a change. Went from 35 years with a Gillette TracII to 6 months with Gillette DEs to the past 4 1/2 years with a str8. I think I'll stay where I am now, its a lot more fun, interesting and rewarding.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if
Gillette wouldn't lobby (bribe)
Congress into putting a ban on
the importation of DE blades into
the US. The ban would be because
of "safety concerns" and the average
American wouldn't even notice or care.


Terry

Interesting reading. One of the comments pointed out that if you tally all members in all forums it is only about 100,000 people. Gillette and the like market to the western world, it's a huge market, with massive profits, but i doubt you are going to find a Vietnamese villager with a Gillette fusion in his bathroom, four carts is probably a weeks wage. Alot of DE blades are made in Russia, so i would guess most men there use them still. I wonder what the predominant method of shaving is worldwide.

My guess would be cartridge in the US,
Canada,Western Europe, Australia, NZ
and Japan. If I'm leaving out anyone
please forgive me.

For the rest...DE??? so I would say world
wide it would be DE.

Terry

Originally Posted by Grazor

Interesting reading. One of the comments pointed out that if you tally all members in all forums it is only about 100,000 people. Gillette and the like market to the western world, it's a huge market, with massive profits, but i doubt you are going to find a Vietnamese villager with a Gillette fusion in his bathroom, four carts is probably a weeks wage. Alot of DE blades are made in Russia, so i would guess most men there use them still. I wonder what the predominant method of shaving is worldwide.

I was down in Macedonia this past Saturday I saw very inexpensive DE razors in the Bazaar they were no frills either plastic or metal. I did not get one or check the price but if I get down that way again I will. I found a 1965 Gillette Aristocrat DE in a antique store I purchased that for a good price. I bought a 5 pack of SuperMax Super Stainless DE blades from the place in the Bazaar where I saw the cheap DE razors for 20 Macedonian Denar or about .42¢ US. I went to one supermarket and a pharmacy they both had some Gillette razor handles and cartridges to be had. I would guess that the common man in this part of the world especially the older ones use DE's.

I could never pay for the blades again. the prices in Canada are insane!!! Would way rather spend it on a straight that i can hand down through my life and generation!