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    Default Poor cartridge companies

    Thought this was interesting and wanted to share.

    Not sure if an increasing straight razor and DE market is having an impact on this as well, but I would strongly assume so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EdG View Post
    Thought this was interesting and wanted to share.

    Not sure if an increasing straight razor and DE market is having an impact on this as well, but I would strongly assume so.

    Hipsters are killing American razor sales- MSN Money
    Hilarious! Those crazy hispsters! Yes, looks like the DE and SR world is taking over the world!!

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    I have a theory that every time Gillette or Schick puts out a new cartridge, they intentionally let the older ones get just a little less durable or sharp, so that eventually you have to try (buy) the new system to get the same shave. I just found some old Trac II cartridges and a handle in a suitcase and tried them. They worked just as well as my Fusion, which I use to back-up. On the other hand, maybe I'm just paranoid.
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    I think you are right in your statement.
    Quote Originally Posted by Haroldg48 View Post
    I have a theory that every time Gillette or Schick puts out a new cartridge, they intentionally let the older ones get just a little less durable or sharp, so that eventually you have to try (buy) the new system to get the same shave. I just found some old Trac II cartridges and a handle in a suitcase and tried them. They worked just as well as my Fusion, which I use to back-up. On the other hand, maybe I'm just paranoid.

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    I always thought it strange that they keep adding blades. What's wrong with improving on the one blade?

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    pretty much add a blade, put on a goo strip, make the handle have seizures, dance, or built in radio, and charge $5 more than last years model. They are pricing themselves out of business. I think that's how a lot of guys here (myself included) go started wetshaving. We weren't rebelling, just looking for a more comfortable economic way to shave, and since the big names haven't tried to solve the issue we just took it in our own hands to do so.
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    Quote Originally Posted by EdG View Post
    Thought this was interesting and wanted to share.

    Not sure if an increasing straight razor and DE market is having an impact on this as well, but I would strongly assume so.

    Hipsters are killing American razor sales- MSN Money
    All I can say is, it's about time! I'm 57 and when I was in my 20s you had long hair but you DIDN'T go to work unshaven! Starting in the 1990s where I worked a guy was hired and shaved infrequently. I teased him for years. Now it's socially acceptable. I guy told me a few years ago he shaves every three days and that his face couldn't take a daily shave.

    The reason for this fad in my opinion is the discomfort and poor results from the overpriced cartridges. I started retro shaving in 2010 and it wasn't more than a couple of months later that department stores started locking cartridges in those anti-theft cases. I hope every one of those cartridges hemorrage in those locked boxes!!!

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    It's a business model having nothing to do with shaving. You want to extract the max money you can from the public and it's a known fact a product becomes stale after a while so to keep the money coming in you redesign and repackage the product and spend a ton of money on advertising and the fish or public will fall for it again and again.
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    Probably more likely the cartridges are too expensive/irritating to too many faces & that's why it's becoming more socially acceptable to sport facial hair, rather than the PBR-drinking-brigade. And then you have crazies like us who take the older way of shaving & turn it into a hobby, combined w/ a rapidly growing interest in men's skin care & the greedy scum (cartridge companies) are digging their own graves.

    OT, but here's a classic hipster joke--apologies if everyone has already heard it:

    Q:How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb? A: "What, you don't know?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PA23-250 View Post
    Probably more likely the cartridges are too expensive/irritating to too many faces & that's why it's becoming more socially acceptable to sport facial hair, rather than the PBR-drinking-brigade. And then you have crazies like us who take the older way of shaving & turn it into a hobby, combined w/ a rapidly growing interest in men's skin care & the greedy scum (cartridge companies) are digging their own graves.

    OT, but here's a classic hipster joke--apologies if everyone has already heard it:

    Q:How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb? A: "What, you don't know?
    Hahaha!

    Q. What are the two major moods of a Hipster?

    A. Disdain, and utter disdain...

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