A great reason to go with traditional wetshaving!

[California Cajun]

http://fakeblades.wordpress.com/blade-comparisons/

It says 80% of today's popular cartridges sold on ebay are knockoffs, which are not aligned properly.

Right after I began to shave the old fashioned way in 2010, I noticed that stores like Wal-Mart started putting these cartridges in theft-proof cases due to the high prices.

So consumers of modern wetshaving are given a choice:

1. Knockoffs
2. Ripoffs

 

[Mick]

Anytime anything becomes "valuable" or "popular" there are going to be more fakes than real items on the market.

Some places like eBay have as high as 98% fakes/infringing content offered for sale on high popularity items.

You have to be darn lucky to get what you have paid for with some items. Disney comes to mind first. Fewer than one out of one thousand Disney items offered for sale are actual Disney items and not infringing copies.

 

[DICE]

This whole cartridge thing is getting out of hand!

Quoted from the link: "With the introduction of Gillette’s Fusion™ and Fusion™ Power products, serial numbers are now imprinted on the cartridges to help make it easier to confirm authenticity."

 

[one cut]

article sounds a bit like it is trying to scare you away from e-bay.
fakeblades.com has a issue with e-bay in other articles, as well as certain sellers that the person names.

As for the theft proof cases, razor blade cartridges are one of the most commonly stolen things in the retail business.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...em-high-street-price-soars-99-just-years.html

so there is a hustler out there selling cartridges at half price from the boot of his car, check your local seedy neighborhood.

 

[notary]

You are 100%, what a good reason to start DE saving when so many knock offs exist, sold as Gillette products.

Happy Shaving.. Sam

 

[celestino]

Brilliant!

 

[razorector]

im sure there are just as many counterfeit DE blades around. They are still blades though.

 

[gearchow]

im sure there are just as many counterfeit DE blades around. They are still blades though.

but maybe not blades you want to be putting on your face. Folks who knock off stuff don't exactly care about the quality of the product.

-jim

 

[Maxime D.]

I tried these fake blade, they are made of butterknives lol

 

[Shave_Rat]

im sure there are just as many counterfeit DE blades around. They are still blades though.

I honestly have trouble believing that there would be that many counterfeit DE blades. The price point on them is just not high enough nor the demand great enough to make it worth the time and money to produce them, even if you cut a lot of corners in the production. Even if you are faking the more expensive DE blades, the real deal ones are like what.. $0.45 a piece?

I guess, if you managed to buy some unmarked super low budget generic blades for like $.05 a piece in bulk, and could rework/repackage them for an extra ten cents per or so, could be worth the time/effort?

 

[gearchow]

I honestly have trouble believing that there would be that many counterfeit DE blades. The price point on them is just not high enough nor the demand great enough to make it worth the time and money to produce them, even if you cut a lot of corners in the production. Even if you are faking the more expensive DE blades, the real deal ones are like what.. $0.45 a piece?

I guess, if you managed to buy some unmarked super low budget generic blades for like $.05 a piece in bulk, and could rework/repackage them for an extra ten cents per or so, could be worth the time/effort?

You never know, but it does seem kind of far fetched. Especially considering this:

-jim

 

[Shave_Rat]

You never know, but it does seem kind of far fetched. Especially considering this:

-jim

Thinking on it logically, the only way I could see it happening would be buying super cheap low budget blades and remarking/packaging them as like Kai or Feathers or such, and then only selling them in bulk quantities. Even then it seems like a lot more work than the return would be worth.

 

[Omnius1]

It does seem like there would be more effort to counterfeit cartridges than DE blades, considering that even top-end DE blades sell for something like 40 cents each, while gillette fusion cartridges are $3.50 each or more.