Pure prevarication.
Gillette Posting Falsehoods
- Thread starter tlentz
- Start date
To me, the truly sad thing is that LOTS of men who have little extra income at all, buy into this drivel and butcher their faces along about shave 6 and on, till maybe shave 20 or so, maybe longer. ? Shaving every third day, so they look kinds scruffy, but only buy a 6 pack of razors every year.... sad..... when you consider what they could be experiencing with a $10 Tech and 100 pack of Astras for $10.
Stop beating around the bush and tell us what you mean.
I did have to google that word though 
They mean you'll use it one time and it gets dull. Since the prices are so high you're going to wait for one month before you're going to shave. So yes they're right it DOES last one month
Who only shaves 4 times in a week? I probably average 10 shaves per week.
I could see them saying 5 shaves per week. Then they would basically be saying that people take the weekends off. 4 sounds like they decided that people only shave every other day and someone just rounded 3.5 up to 4.
I have got around 43 -45 BBS shaves out of a Fusion Pro glide Power without too much effort. No irritation & no weepers 
Yep. I'd easily make a cart last a month, back in the day.
The only thing I care is that St.Pete plant keeps spitting out their amazing DE blades. The rest is just noise.
This has been discussed before, I believe.
The Gillette advertisement does not state one month of DAILY shaves and apparently assumes that the user shaves only every second or third day.
Highly disingenuous, but then again this kind of Gillette hype is nothing new, is it?
B.
The Gillette advertisement does not state one month of DAILY shaves and apparently assumes that the user shaves only every second or third day.
Highly disingenuous, but then again this kind of Gillette hype is nothing new, is it?
B.
Yeah, a fairly misleading kind of ad....
Nothing new from a big company hoping to still suck in lots of $$$$$
The increase in DE shavers or the existence of a cheaper way of wet shaving is making them a little nervous perhaps....
Just my 2 cents on this...... I will always stay with the DE for my shaves.....
Nothing new from a big company hoping to still suck in lots of $$$$$
The increase in DE shavers or the existence of a cheaper way of wet shaving is making them a little nervous perhaps....
Just my 2 cents on this...... I will always stay with the DE for my shaves.....
I'm always astonished by the number of 'sensitive' products in supermarket shaving aisles, almost to the exclusion of 'regular' limes. But then, my brother tells me he uses Mach3 carts until the lube strip fall off i.e. three months. Changing carts weekly he considers feckless spendthriftery
I saw the new Pro-Glide commercial last night, the one with the guy standing in front of 30 mirrors in a line. This is classic and "honest" advertising. A completely open-ended claim... up to a month of shaves. Perfectly true statement. No claim of what the average use may be. If one person uses the blade for a month then they are correct. It would be like us in DE shavedom saying "yup to 100 shaves per blade". We know a couple guys who have done that.
I'm one of those lucky guys with moderate beard density, and combined with the fact I shave daily (at least 5x a week) and right out of the shower, I could easily get a month of shaves out of a Mach 3 cartridge and could continue to get more, but decided to get into the habit of changing it out on the first of every month.
One week. Total. Max. Out of any of the Gillette cartridges starting with Trac II and all the way through to the Fusion.
I'm an everyday shaver with a dense, rapidly growing beard. One week was pushing it, and if I'd had more money I would've ditched cartridges at 4 or 5 shaves.
I'm an everyday shaver with a dense, rapidly growing beard. One week was pushing it, and if I'd had more money I would've ditched cartridges at 4 or 5 shaves.
- Thread starter
- #36
+1 very funny. I think that's what I used to do.
I just came from a Gillette fusion and I got that to last me 3 months @ 3 shaves a week. No nicks, and not very close once in the final month. I realise it's a ymmv deal, but I had good luck. Still stupid expensive though.
I'm not one to defend Gillette's marketing practices, but I'm afraid your interpretation - however insightful it might seem at first glance - is off the mark. Your use of term "refill" is actually what Gillette terms a "shipment." If you click on the link to their subscription plans, you'll see they show a price per "cartridge refill" that is the price per cartridge, and that a single Fusion shipment contains four cartridges. Thus, a "refill" is a single cartridge. So yes, Gillette is really saying you can get up to a month of shaves from a single cartridge, averaging four shaves a week. I'm not saying they're right, but they aren't hiding behind the fine print. They are legitimately saying it with a straight face.
Yes - I am amazed that some guys get more than 4-5 shaves out of the high-end, multi-blade carts. Maybe these are younger guys who have not reached the plutonium fiber stage of beard consistency.
- Thread starter
- #40
That could be. Remember the old credit card test where they would scrape the card across the face to see how smooth it was. Mine beard would tear up that card. Especially some of those wirey white ones.
Similar threads
