Your Regrettable Purchases?

[Zig the Pirate]

We've all done it. Maybe you saw a piece of shaving equipment that you didn't need, but it was half price.
Maybe the advertising suckered you in.
Maybe you even bought it just to see how bad it was.
Maybe you bought it on a bet.
Perhaps, just maybe, you bought it online after a few too many drinks.

But it's BAD.

Let's see your little bundles of shame.

 

[thombrogan]

That stick of ARKO! I bought to save on shipping (was right at the cusp and it was $3 for the ARKO! or $8 for the shipping…).

Now I’m a top tier soap snob like @FarmerTan and @Owen Bawn

 

[Whiterook]

The L'Occitane shaving soap container. Thirty bucks for that thing and I don't use Cade these days.

 

[Kyle89]

AoS Sandalwood (non tallow tub)

Spent like 20 something bucks and could never get it to work for me. Still by far my favorite sandalwood scent, but wouldn't wish the performance on anybody. Trash.

 

[Lee93]

8 Arko sticks, I hate the scent..
Rasozero Barbacco soap, no protection, no slick, I use it as preshave.
400ml of Vitos Aftershaving, too powdery for me.

 

[Artlogon]

Geo F Trumper's Rose hard soap.

Wonderful scent, but lather dissipates instantly upon applying it to the face.

Enviado desde mi SM-A307G mediante Tapatalk

 

[Mike M]

Wilkinson Sword Blue puck no slick, no cushion and I still have it after all these years because I dislike it too much to use it up.
Personna comfort coated blades, love the med prep and platinum so I couldn't wait to try these, they leave my face looking like Freddy Krueger.

 

[SharpieB]

Cheap brushes. I have tons of cheap brushes that never get used, are too cheap to sell and the postage for a PIF will be almost as expensive as the brush cost to ship.

The WS puck Mike M mentioned above as well. I bought 2 pucks as they are dirt cheap and it is absolute garbage. I might use them as shower soaps or just toss them.

 

[gdawg55]

Asylum RX SE razor. Big bucks and never could get comfortable with it.....too efficient for me. One day I'm going to BST it. It's a fine piece of gear, just not right for me.

 

[emwolf]

The only purchase I'm not happy with is the Gillette Toggle. A lot of money for an okay razor.

 

[Disreali]

Arko. Like others, I added it to an order to qualify for free shipping. Can not stand the smell and it dries out my skin.

 

[hairless wonder]

For me, it's the MicroTouch One. It's what started me on this journey into wet shaving.

 

[Lefonque]

GFT Eucris soap. I

 

[Rhody]

The vegg.

 

[Medivh]

Rockwell 6S, Ming Shi 2000S, Yaqi Katana, Yaqi Mellon and Omega boar 10049.

The 6S was too mild for me even with a Feather blade and getting BBS was mission impossible.

The Ming and the Katana had too much blade chatter and shaving with both razors was very unpleasant.

The Mellon was ok, but too mild for my taste.

Since then I tend to avoid Chinese razors with questionable quality and very mild razors in general.

I've spend some time using the 49 in order to ''break it'' and make it more functional and I even put it in a glass of water in the fridge a couple of times for a few days and even though it felt a little better, I wasn't impressed with the results and on top of that I had to use 2-3 times more soap or cream and spend twice as much time to achieve the same results as I do with my synthetic brushes.
I came to the conclusion that boar brushes are not for me and that at least I tried and i'm never going to buy boar or anything else with natural hair.

 

[Ad Astra]

The ten-pack of Williams, from when "it was going out of business...."

AA

 

[iShave415]

Merkur Futur. I forgot how to use the damn thing. I can't get the angle right.

 

[Adjustingtolife]

A&E Asian plum and Shannon's fig and apricot. Both fantastic soaps but not my kind of scents

- Fayiz D.

 

[Roedeer]

Wilkinson Sword Blue puck no slick, no cushion and I still have it after all these years because I dislike it too much to use it up.

I couldn't get a good result out of it either, so I evicted it into a plastic bag, and made an Arko puck in the useful container.

 

[Chango]

Art of Shaving Coriander Cardamom Shaving Cream.

on the upside, I gave it to a guy at work who loved it and used the entire container!