Blade Wars: Gillette vs. Schick/Wilkinson

[brentspeak]

Shopping for new shaving blades at CVS the other night was complicated by the one-upmanship between Gillette and Schick/Wilkinson:

1) The Gillette Sensor: twin blades with spring-loaded action

2) The Gillette Sensor Excel: twin blades with micro-fins

3) The Gillette Mach3: THREE blades!

(Schick's falling behind, so they unveil the...)

4) The Schick XTreme3: three FLEXIBLE blades!

5) The Gillette Mach3 Turbo: three blades, TEN micro-fins, improved lubrication!

(Schick fights back with the...)

6) Quattro: FOUR blades!

(Gillette retaliates with the...)

7) the Gillette MP3 Power: battery-powered three blades!

8) the Schick Quattro Power: four battery-powered blades!

(Gillette throws down the gauntlet...)

9) the Gillette Fusion: freaking Five blades!!!!

(Before Schick can beat it to the punch...)

10) the Gillette Fusion Power: battery-powered five blades!!!!

I can't wait for the 10-blade, battery-powered, 20 microfin, improved lubricating strip, aerodynamically-designed razor!!

[Nevernose]

1. I buy whatever's cheapest, despite their buying of the draft registry

I still buy whatever's cheapest or on sale, but when I turned 18 and registered for the draft (what's that called again?), for a few years I got free samples from various shaving-product companies. Some of them were actually pretty good, just not enough to pay that much for.

[Placebo]

2. Thankfully, I can't grow a beard for nothin'.

But I still have some black hairs on my chin that need to be done away with once a month.

And for that, it's Gillette all the way! There really is no closer or smoother shave than the Mach3.

[brentspeak]

3. I settled for the Mach3 Turbo

The razors themselves with an intro pack of blades aren't that much; it's the replacement blades that cost a fortune.

[Placebo]

4. Yup, that's where they get ya.

Bastids.

[Broken_Hero]

5. number 5 for me

thats what I have. I can't deal with single/dual bladed razors, I mess my face up pretty bad with those. The Gillete 3 bladed Mach(whatever its called) works great for me...I'm still clueless as to why, razors need batteries, whats the story on that?

[brentspeak]

6. Supposedly, the battery-powered razors

sends "pulses" which (according to Gillette) "M3Power raises hair up and away from the skin!"

Schick/Wilkinson Sword sued Gillette over the way this was phrased (because Wilkinson Sword's battery-powered razor said something like that first), so now Gillette advertises the Mach3 Power as "The best-selling razor in America!"