Originally it was possible to buy just the replacement foil for your Braun electric razor for about £5. Dear enough for a piece of pierced metal. Then they brougt a new improved razor but one could no longer buy just the foil. The whole head had to be replaced, at a cost od around £30. Exto rtionate. Now they have another new improved model razor and the replacement foil/hea d is £86 ! Is there no limit to their greed?
A while ago I decided I'd had enough of appallingly expensive Braun parts.
I went back to a rotary razor, and although it takes a while for the face to 'acclimatise', it was worth it.
I think I've had the razor 6 or 7 years, and I haven't had to replace anything. I did buy a multi-use sharpening kit for a few quid, and I sharpen the cutters every 3 months.
do you have a link please
tim
Philips razor (lots of models)
I assume you mean for the sharpener. Had it about 4 years, so who knows what the supply/price is like now. I think it actually came from Canada. The make was 'Vollco' - just looked.
Amazon seem to sell some in the UK. Google should be easy.
It is always as great as your stupidity to buy their product.
Two years ago I bought an old fashioned safety razor for about £20. I am on my third set of blades. Total cost so far for 2 years shaving is about 25 quid on the razor. Still on the same bottle of aftershave, but I have got through two cans of cheapest shaving foam.
I mean how dull is shaving? You just need a cheap effective quick way way to get the stubble off.
The rest is marketing bollox.
My Philips razor cost me about 25 quid. The sharpeners cost about 15 quid.
Total cost so far for 6 years or so shaving is 40 quid. Excluding the minimal amount of electricity.
just get some ARKO and a blade...much cheapness ......
ARKO you will love it .....
In my experience battery shavers, seem to not get blunt well not the Remington ones, but no matter how smart the tech, the battery life seams to be only about 3 to five years. This either implies poor charging design or crap batteries. The latest ones keep up their speed until suddenly stopping. One supposes some kind of low voltage motor is used with control circuit tto achieve this, but I'd imagine this masks the problem of age making one or more cell die first reverse charging tem and hastening the life time of the cell reduction mechanism somewhat. To my mind it would be great if these batteries were in packs so they could be replaced, but no, nearly all shavers I've seen that are rechargeable seem to be self destructing if you attempt to get in to put new cells in. Brian
En el artículo , fred escribió:
I've got a Braun fruit juicer which I bought abroad (in Europe, not that it makes any difference) and use daily. A plastic gear stripped and as it's a good model which I've had many years I thought I'd buy the part rather than scrap and replace the whole thing. The gear is about 2cm dia and weighs next to nothing. I got online and found the part number.
Braun UK wanted 14 quid inc. shipping.
Braun Deutschland wanted a more reasonable 6 euro plus 12 euro shipping.
Braun USA wanted 28 cents plus $40 international shipping. Shipping to US residents was free, so I got a friend in Florida to order two and post them to me at a cost of $1.20
Fitted it, works perfectly and there's a spare taped to the inside if it strips again.
It was satisfying being able to fix it at a modest cost.
yes
the actual cutting part of the Philips heads is fiddly small
I assumed that it would require quite a specialist sharpener to work
Thanks
I'll look it up
tim
The fault here is USAns insistence on "Shipping" even if putting it in a Jiffy bag and trusting to US mail is sufficient.
I once received an interview confirmation for a US job (a single sheet of paper in an envelope, interview was in London BTW)) by UPS. I almost didn't actually get it before I had to leave for the interview, as, of course, it needed to be signed for and I was out on the day they came.
tim
I have a Remington rotary. Sharpening it costs near zero. A bit of plate glass and some Autosol chrome polish. About every six months.
What does the whole razor cost?
When my Braun 3775 needed battery replacement, I was able instead to get a whole shaver for £35, but it is sadly now completely discontinued.
I was able to get a compatible foil from the far east for £5.99 delivered, which works as well as the original for the areas I shave around my beard.
One of its real advantages is that it works fine on ac or dc from
12 V to 240 V. This means that, with the aid of an adapted lead, it can be recharged when I am in the caravan and without hook-up. As I now have two identical, if aged, shavers I may well investigate opening up the older one to see if the rechargeable cells are suitable candidates for replacement.Chris
I use the gel products. The Gillette product is more expensive and a little better than the Tesco own brand version.
En el artículo , tim... escribió:
It adds to their bottom line. Like the ebay auctions selling stuff for a few pennies then charging 50 quid for postage.
I think it has more to do with deep suspicion of USPS as a socialistic federal government enterprise motivated to destroy the Free Market by failing to deliver.
which is a total rip off .....
En el artículo , Roger Hayter escribió:
heh :)
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