Let’s All Stick It To The Gillette Company!
It was the end of life for my last Gillette M3 razor cartridge so I headed down to my local pharmacy chain store to replenish my stock. As I shuffled the aisles I came across a monsterous heavy duty plexiglass display. Within it were an assortment of Gillette razor blades and a sign that told me that the only way to get a pack was to see a cashier for assistance. So, after locating a cashier to crack open the safe, I visually inspected the shelves for my trusted Gillette M3 blades but they were nowhere to be found. Under pressure to select a replacement (the cashier was waiting to secure the vault) I chose the Gillette Fusion Pro Glide Razor and 8 blade set. Escorted to the checkout counter by the security guard the razor and cartridges rang up to nearly $50.00. I rejected the sale and walked out of the store. I started to think how lucky the Amish, Hassidim and the Muslims were not having to shave. I needed blades and I needed them yesterday so using my trusty resource, the Internet, I searched for a facsimile of the Gillette M3 blades I used and trusted for years. Then miraculously my quest brought me to the Dorco home page: www.dorcousa.com. I read the many positive reviews and decided to order the SXA5000 & SXA5040 6 blade with trimmer combo pack for $12.37. They arrived in a couple of days. All I can say is “perfectamente!“ The handle was quite robust and had much more weight than the Gillette and the 6 blade razor cartridge shaved smooth as can be. I am now hooked and will re-order more soon.
So what makes the Gillette company charge so much for their blades? Well, they own around 90% of the market, they spend thousands of dollars advertising and you the consumer keep paying these extortionate prices. I do support the free market system but you the consumers are being taken to the cleaners by this company who thinks you need a razor with headlights, vibrating handles and zircon encrusted blades. Give these Dorco blades a try and I am sure you will agree with me. They also make razors for the ladies as well. Let’s all stick it to Gillette for being greedy bastards!
Sorry for your luck. Me, I am still using a Norelco electric I bought sometime in the 70′s. I replaced the cutter heads 15 years or so ago. I used this shaver when I was in the US NAVY ( I got out in 1975) and it works like a champ!!!
The last time I bent over to be “cleaned” by Gillette was…well…Hell, it’s been so many years I can’t even remember. I do remember that the last blade I ever used was an Atra. Like Cliffy, I grew tired of never being called, and not being respected in the morning! Being the cheapskate that I have become, I now use the plastic throw-aways that I buy by the gross at SAM’S CLUB. They are cheap, and they work fine for me. I, too, once used an electric shaver; it also was a Norelco if memory serves correctly (which it often does not). But I never started back after ditching it while I was in the marines. There were no reliable battery powered ones in those days, power cords were a major pain, and sometimes the shaves I would get would not pass inspection.
I am surprised that Gillette still dominates the market. I figured by now they would have gone the way of ZeeRocks!
It is 2012! Elecricity drives the answer to Gillette. I have a Norelco and a Braun plus a beard and hair trimmer and they are all powered by elecricity. With what I save on razor blades each year I can lease a BMW. Well that might be a gross exaggeration but you get my drift.
Larry Koehn,
Calling what you just wrote “a gross exaggeration” is itself a gross understatement! That Brinks truck full of money you save on razor blades each year is a result of the fact that you hardly ever shave. And when you do shave, you probably use the electric razor so so you don’t cut your own throat. And I also know why you are so enamored of electricity: it’s all those years you spent growing up without it. Might also explain why you spend so much time on the porcelain recliner in the library.