55$ for a 100ml After-Shave balm???

[Jobol]

Well, I was just passing by my local pharmacy and what caught my eyes is a new line for shaving I haven't seen before at the store. So I browse through the different products and what I noticed at first was the absence of any price tags.

So I take a creme jar, and an after-shave balm with me to the cash register and when the total came out, it was 100$ for both items!!!

Apparently the Aftershave is 55$ (100ml) and the creme is 35$! What is this craziness all about? the brand was the ZIRH brand, the first time I see it anywhere.

Is the recent emergence of wet shaving and men grooming getting us all screwed?? This is really ridiculous.

 

[Gruder]

Zirh has been around for a while, and has been, well, expensive, for a while. That's not to say that other items aren't equally expensive -- $55 for 100ml of ASB is high, but not an outlier. In Zirh's case, I wouldn't confidently say that you get what you pay for, just based on comments here on B&B.

 

[Jobol]

To be honest, I was outraged at the store when I seen the prices but a subconscious part of me was saying "hey if it is THAT expensive then it must be good".

Glad I listened to my wife instead




.

 

[HoratioCaine]

I'm glad you listened to your wife, too. That store is grossly overcharging. Zirh's asb goes for $32.50 retail; their shaving cream jar retails at $22.50. That store is putting Zirh's pricing in Castle Forbes and Santa Maria Novella territory, which is absurd.

 

[Jobol]

They must be using last year's canadian dollar conversion rate or something, or probably the MSRP is a lot higher in Canada than in the US.

So I am guessing it is not worth it, even at the 32.50US?

 

[HoratioCaine]

So I am guessing it is not worth it, even at the 32.50US?

You're guessing right.