Does anyone else chuckle at the Gillette's current ad campaign?

[MoJoe]

I don't watch much TV but I noticed that Gillette is running a campaign where they are trying to convince folks to replace their blades when one of the strips on the Fusion blade changes colors. I chuckle every time I see it because I know when to change my blades and don't feel penalized when I do. In my world there should be a warning under that strip which says 'New blade time, Sucker'. Unfortunately, we're not under my rule, yet.

 

[40boy]

Most of the Gillette ad campaigns **** me off.
" Fusion for $1 a week" HA

 

[michiganlover]

I don't watch much TV but I noticed that Gillette is running a campaign where they are trying to convince folks to replace their blades when one of the strips on the Fusion blade changes colors. I chuckle every time I see it because I know when to change my blades and don't feel penalized when I do. In my world there should be a warning under that strip which says 'New blade time, Sucker'. Unfortunately, we're not under my rule, yet.

I found the color changing strip to be meaningless at the end of my cartridge adventure, as a top quality shave meant not using the cartridge beyond 5-7 days, and at this point the color changing strip still had about 1/4 of the color left..I think...

Of course, regardless of when you change the blade, the Fusion, and Mach 3 are absolute crap in my opinion anyway. The Sensor is superior to either.

 

[Robxcarlson]

It reminds of the beer label that changes color when it's cold enough for "optimum flavor" (which is funny because the colder a beer is the less flavor it will actually have)

 

[gone down south]

I thought it was a dumb campaign, until some recent threads where people admitted to using M3 carts for 2-3 months each. I never realized that there were people out there who hated their skin that much!

 

[lamina]

Of course, regardless of when you change the blade, the Fusion, and Mach 3 are absolute crap in my opinion anyway. The Sensor is superior to either.

Agree...they were the ol'times when Gillette used to produce good razors such as Fat Boys,SS, Tracs and Atras. The Sensor was the last one of a long and noble family called Gillette...Unfortunetly those times are gone...

 

[ozzy_scl]

It reminds of the beer label that changes color when it's cold enough for "optimum flavor" (which is funny because the colder a beer is the less flavor it will actually have)

+1 to that, I learned about that on my wychwood brewbery tour last year!
BY the way I'm having a nice Hobgoblin now.

 

[JeffW]

+1 to that, I learned about that on my wychwood brewbery tour last year!
BY the way I'm having a nice Hobgoblin now.

Yeah...but the beers that have the label, so cold you can't taste is probably optimum.

 

[koso]

That strip would be disintegrating by the time I would dump a cartridge. The 'moisturizing' strip or whatever they called it then.

Part of the reason I was looking for better shaves, I suppose.