Gillette Heritage Review- Special Edition!

I've been wanting to get one of these. Anyone else tried one?

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He gives you the bitter truth at 2:35:  it's not a "Gillette" per se. It's no more a Gillette product than it is General Motors. Gillette merely "pimped" out their name to make $$. It's a GERMAN made razor in a Chinese made box with the Gillette name on it and that's all it will ever be. Gillette "dabbled" in the current DE niche market back in 2016 -2017 when they imported some of their Brazilian made Platinum Plus DE blades into U.S. retailers such as Walgreens and it failed miserably from a financial standpoint. They languished on store shelves and were yanked only to be sold to resellers. 

Although we all love this wonderful hobby we must never lose sight of the fact that we are assuredly less than 0.01% (if that) of the total market despite how strongly we may feel in our insular world.

Did he really shave with that razor straight out of the box with no cleaning of the razor first?  He must have cleaned it and just put it back in the box for the effect for the video.

I bought one of these just because but I haven't used it and probably won't.  I'm not even sure where it is right now.  Somewhere.  I don't think anybody that bought it actually thought that Gillette had manufactured that razor themselves.  Its the way things are these days.  For better or worse.

He gives you the bitter truth at 2:35:  it's not a "Gillette" per se. It's no more a Gillette product than it is General Motors. Gillette merely "pimped" out their name to make $$. It's a GERMAN made razor in a Chinese made box with the Gillette name on it and that's all it will ever be. Gillette "dabbled" in the current DE niche market back in 2016 -2017 when they imported some of their Brazilian made Platinum Plus DE blades into U.S. retailers such as Walgreens and it failed miserably from a financial standpoint. They languished on store shelves and were yanked only to be sold to resellers. 

Although we all love this wonderful hobby we must never lose sight of the fact that we are assuredly less than 0.01% (if that) of the total market despite how strongly we may feel in our insular world.

I wondered what had happened to those blades as I was quite a fan of them.  Sure enough, first my local Walgreens stopped selling them and then they disappeared from Walgreens on-line store.  I still have a couple of tucks but I'm sorry to see them go from store shelves.

It's the way things are these days.

+1

I opened the thread into ilRasoio in October 2019.
http://www.ilrasoio.com/viewtopic.php?t=16218

I've not changed my mind.

The deal is purely speculative.
Specifically aimed at fans and nostalgics.
We are the product, at least that part of us more attentive to the shape than to the substance.
In fact, we have already started talking about the box.
Losing sight of the razor engine: the head.

Head that I hope is not the classic asian Standard Plus.
But it's not a Gillette geometry anyway.
As they took up the New Bostonian handle, they could have used a Tech head like the Hybrid.
It would have been different.

But it would have required investment.
The head is not as simple to produce as the handle.
And above all it would have meant a different message ...

Have the Gillette Heritage on order with Amazon.  Checked with (mask on) Walgreens regarding the King Gillette model and it's due in tomorrow.

Hmmm. I am tempted to get this just to get the case.