Razor blades too expensive

they are all well over priced anyway, none of them are value for money and who cares about a perfect shave? we just wanna shave and not need a morgage to do it.

Steps to freedom:

1. Decide to take the small step to wearing stubble (which can look quite good)
2. But some clippers (£30 max)
3. Never buy razor blades ever again/replace clippers once every 10 years.

I've spent the best part of a week looking for sensor 3 refils. Non of the big supermarkets stock them, but I found some in Superdrug, only to discover they cost more than their disposable counterparts. How can that me I wondered. Surly the disposables have more plastic and are more complicated to make than the refils? There's some sort of scam going on for sure. Two years ago I was forced to abandon my gillette razor after they discontinued the line. I've been encouraged by what I've read here and will consider going back to the Wilkinson twin razor I used over 20 years ago. I can see what my wife is going to buy me this Christmas !

It's a free country (well, until the government get's its way) so if you don't like it, don't buy it! Stop whinging, if high priced razors keep you awake at night, grow a beard and get a life!

I used the Tesco twin blade razors these days. They are really cheap, but work very very well. The only downside is that they need a couple of shaves before they really glide. I'd recommend them if you want to save some pennies

"Got us by the short and curlies," "blades incompatible with handles, then draws the conclusion that, "this is so that you are forced to buy your blades from THEM and no one else." OF COURSE GILLETTE only want you to buy their stuff, this is competition in the raw matey!

And NO they don't have to make things compatible, if incompatibility makes them a ton and a half of dosh and also keeps you coming back for more! Not only that, they've got you jumping through "hoops" to buy their stuff. Just reflect again on the lengths you've sometimes gone to, to get hold of (expensive) Gillette products. Those boys a Gillette think you should be begging them to send more products over to the UK. And your occasional behaviour gives them good reason to think this. They love this kind of story.

One of their biggest shareholders (W. Buffett) once said he slept a lot easier at night knowing that 2.5 billion men would get up the next morning needing to shave. This is one of the reasons he bought the shares, he loved the simplicity of it. Gillette also had a very strong brand name. For him share price success was a no brainer, he probably waited until the stock market was having a Gillette "share price sale" before buying!

What you have to do is change your obsession with the need for Gillette razors. This means not simply trying something else, it means living with something else, like Gillette didn't exist. I now buy Boots own stuff. I used to be a bit like you, I got fed up with their high prices, sorry Warren!

lkjhfdsa - it annoys me too when people can't spell, your instead of you're, how irritating.

A couple of flint burins manufactured by mesolithics should do you a treat.

Yes, it's rather ridiculous the cartridge prices...So, I have developed a new handle and blade that are equally effective and drastically less expensive. Problem is I can not find a manufacturer for my concept. Does anyone have any idea where I might get something like this manufacturered?

This has happened to me too. I wrongly picked up Sensor 3 cartridges in the local Tesco but did not discover the mistake until after opening the package.when it became unreturnable. On my next visit to Tesco I found they did not even stock the handle and was advised to go to a larger store. I have done this only to find that it too stocks the blades but not the handle. Maybe the handles do not exist and the sensor blade is just a way of doubling sales since you then have to go and get the original Mac 3 blades.
The Gillette packaging does not give any illustration of the handle fitting so you cannot tell until you open the package that you have bought a totally duff product and been conned out of nearly 10 quid. for 8 useless blades.
Definitely the worst a man can get!
An internet search shows that Boots Sainsburys etc do not stock these handles either.
Just what is going on.
With customer care like this Gillette does not desreve any form of customer loyalty.
Wilkinson here I come. Your performance cant be any worse.

Seventy quid??! Dunno where you shop mate. Use an electric shaver...

Safety razors cost £30 - £70, but double edge razor blades are all the same & can cost from as little as 16p a blade. Also as others have said they provide a much better shave.

For tips on single blade shaving I found these vids helpful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F5u28JfnCM

For 10 double edge razor blades for £2.60 inc V.A.T & postage

http://www.suffolksupplies.co.uk