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That how much the Fusion Pro glide is. I was in Coles today and saw the sticker price $36 per pack and I thought that would be for 8 blades, maybe 6. But it's 4.
How much of a lend are they having? These things are going to hit $10 or more, no worries about that. At what point is your average bloke going to realise he's being bent over? $15 a cart? $20?
Gillette have pretty much caned the 5 blader for years now. They have to come up with something else, some major marketing bullshit, to get blades to $15 or more. They want to, we know that. While they see blokes worldwide are dumb enough to fall for their shit and keep paying for it, they'll keep dreaming it up. The bastards don't even discount the old twins much, like the Sensor, so Gillette keeps locking blokes into fixed price points.
I can see the ease of use in carts - used them for years and I do get a closer shave more easily, although its not worth $5+ per cart for the privilege. But nothing has technically changed since the Mach 3, which was a small, but more robust improvement on the clattery Sensor. You can get the same shave out of either. But their blades are still blunt compared to a good DE - they get away with it with the pivot, which IMO was their only genuine innovation. The rest is bollox designed to upsell the clueless punter.
I'm glad I'm out of it. While I might spend a similar amount of shave gear, it's money I choose to spend, rather than being made to.
How much of a lend are they having? These things are going to hit $10 or more, no worries about that. At what point is your average bloke going to realise he's being bent over? $15 a cart? $20?
Gillette have pretty much caned the 5 blader for years now. They have to come up with something else, some major marketing bullshit, to get blades to $15 or more. They want to, we know that. While they see blokes worldwide are dumb enough to fall for their shit and keep paying for it, they'll keep dreaming it up. The bastards don't even discount the old twins much, like the Sensor, so Gillette keeps locking blokes into fixed price points.
I can see the ease of use in carts - used them for years and I do get a closer shave more easily, although its not worth $5+ per cart for the privilege. But nothing has technically changed since the Mach 3, which was a small, but more robust improvement on the clattery Sensor. You can get the same shave out of either. But their blades are still blunt compared to a good DE - they get away with it with the pivot, which IMO was their only genuine innovation. The rest is bollox designed to upsell the clueless punter.
I'm glad I'm out of it. While I might spend a similar amount of shave gear, it's money I choose to spend, rather than being made to.
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