Gillette still makes the Sensor Excel razor for foreign markets. Check out the Bay, there is Sensor Excels and an Indian version called the Vector. My buddy has a Vector and swears by it.Gillette brand, Mach3's, are the best compromise for me. I tried hard with many different DE's and blades for 4 years or so. My skin is just too sensitive, I can't use the Fusion either. I get 7 good shaves per cartridge using a Razorpit. I sometime wish they made a Mach2.
Babyface Ron
Sounds like BIC mislead you with their name. Not sure why that reminds you why you should hate Gillette. I hate how big pharma seems to <blankety> Americans, while elsewhere it's available at a fraction of the cost, especially when it's old formulas that R&D has long since been payed.I just remembered why I hate Gillette. I was looking through my shaving draw and found 3 packs of BIC 3 blade replacement cartridges. I was lured into buying them thinking that they were replacements for the Gillette Sensor Excel. The BIC cartridges were for the BIC HYBRID 3. The BIC cartridge is the same as the Excel but about 2mm wider mount. If I want to use the BIC cartridges I need to by the BIC handle. I have 3 Gillette Excel handles, but no Excel cartridges.
Sounds like BIC mislead you with their name. Not sure why that reminds you why you should hate Gillette. I hate how big pharma seems to <blankety> Americans, while elsewhere it's available at a fraction of the cost, especially when it's old formulas that R&D has long since been payed.
The reason price discrimination works is because drugs are expensive to develop and cheap to make. Sell high in one area and lower in other areas. Not fair, but that's the reason.Sounds like BIC mislead you with their name. Not sure why that reminds you why you should hate Gillette. I hate how big pharma seems to <blankety> Americans, while elsewhere it's available at a fraction of the cost, especially when it's old formulas that R&D has long since been payed.
Yes, it was BIC's fault for copying the Gillette mounting system with suttle changes. Gillette however gets the credit for the entrapment with their no stop product change. The changes from Trac 2 to Excel to Sensor to Mach 3 to Mach 3 Turbo all happened within a year or two. I got the feeling they hated their customers. The bait was a free handle with three blades offer.
Probably less hating their customers than trying to maintain profitability by always having a patented and uncloneable product on the shelves.
It did? IIRC Trac was 1971, Atra 1977, Sensor 1990 and Mach3 1998. That was 27 years of development. Sensor Excel works on Sensor handles and M3Turbo on Mach3 handles. Of course, competitors came out with their own similar but incompatible products along the way too.
Probably less hating their customers than trying to maintain profitability by always having a patented and uncloneable product on the shelves.
Yes because that's what companies should do.
Not sure if sarcastic. In a perfect world this might not be so, but in this world Gillette is too big and has too many current and legacy costs to make any money on commodity products. A Gillette that can't offer high priced products in first world countries collapses under its own weight and ceases to exist as a going concern.
Yes, it was BIC's fault for copying the Gillette mounting system with suttle changes. Gillette however gets the credit for the entrapment with their no stop product change. The changes from Trac 2 to Excel to Sensor to Mach 3 to Mach 3 Turbo all happened within a year or two. I got the feeling they hated their customers. The bait was a free handle with three blades offer.
It did? IIRC Trac was 1971, Atra 1977, Sensor 1990 and Mach3 1998. That was 27 years of development. Sensor Excel works on Sensor handles and M3Turbo on Mach3 handles. Of course, competitors came out with their own similar but incompatible products along the way too.
Probably less hating their customers than trying to maintain profitability by always having a patented and uncloneable product on the shelves.
Yes, you are correct on the timing. After checking I was suprised to see I missed the Atra. More reason to hate this product development cycle. I'm amazed that I need to revert over a 100 years to find standardization.
I think highly of my Sensor but have yet to use the Mach-3 which I purchased New Years Eve 2016, so I cannot pass judgement on the latter. I've used a few disposables and while they get the job done, they are generally too expensive and do not last very long.
Im a big fan of the Mach 3. IMO, its all you really need. I recently tried the Schick Hydro and really liked how it shaved but didnt like the, "goo pools" on it. I just didnt like the strings of lubricant sticking to my face as I shaved. It actually did a great job lubricating the face and I could get an easy 3-pass BBS with it. Id probably go with that if I went back to carts.
The reason price discrimination works is because drugs are expensive to develop and cheap to make. Sell high in one area and lower in other areas. Not fair, but that's the reason.