Counterfeit Gillettes

jmudrick, I have a few of those Gillette Super Thins. Nothing spectacular, but not horrible either. I don't think they are "counterfeit" though.

Perhaps yours are "fine". Perhaps it's just a quality control issue. On mine the Gillette logo in the upper right looks like it was drawn by a Kindergartener with a Sharpie. Compare the printing to this one where the Gillette is actually legible. Of course I shaved with it anyway.


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Yeah, I noticed the poor quality printing. These things are most likely screen printed. All types of stuff can go wrong in that process (I know from experience, it's part of what I do at work). For something like a razor blade, it's highly unlikely that an individual blade would be rejected due to a bad print so it slipped through the QC.

So anyway, how was the shave?

Shave was passable but the Super Click isn't high on my list of great shavers. Your explanation is credible but on the other hand almost everything in Cambodia (I lived there 10 years) is bogus: drugs, booze, coffee, coffee filters, $1 bills, all tools and auto parts, university degrees, doctors, you name it...

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