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Old 05-13-2008, 01:56 AM   #1 (permalink)
 
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I seem to remember many years ago when they came out with the first stainless DE blades I think it was the English Company Wilkinsen and they used to advertise you could get at least 10 shaves with each blade. It seems you can only get a couple now so what happened?
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Planned obsolesence is a thing of the past. Outright cheap and shoddy is the order of the day.
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I seem to remember many years ago when they came out with the first stainless DE blades I think it was the English Company Wilkinsen and they used to advertise you could get at least 10 shaves with each blade. It seems you can only get a couple now so what happened?
Profit Margins that is what happened
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Old 05-13-2008, 05:03 PM   #4 (permalink)
 
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Many blades became MUCH thinner.
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