The Unkindest Cut

[kevin_standlee]

My last remaining working electric razor is starting to misbehave. I don't seem to be able to replace the body of the razor (and it appears that Norelco no longer makes models for which the spare blades I have will work), so I went to Walgreens and bought a blade razor as a temporary expedient.

After shaving once, I remembered why I switched to electric. And while I'm sure I have a styptic pencil somewhere, I have no idea where it is. My face is quite smooth right now, but it's also a mass of micro-cuts. I have coarse facial hair but fair, thin skin. Ouch.

I bit the bullet and bought a new electric razor. I'll deal with buying replacement cutting heads for it a year from now.

Comments

[billroper]

Norelco has been doing a lot of weirdness lately. It used to be that when I bought a replacement head for my shaver, I got a complete replacement head. Then they just started giving me the cap with the blades installed in it. Now, I can no longer buy the cap with the blades. I have to buy the blades and install the new ones in the cap.

This is a lot of creeping towards obsolescence for a very expensive shaver body.

[belak]

aka "how to cut expenses for the company and make huge profits for the parent company". Ugh!

My father used to love his Norelco shaver. He'd take it in to be repaired or the heads replaced and trusted it not to nick him.

A few years ago I bought a young man we know a top quality Norelco shaver and before the year was out, despite lots of care and gentleness on his part, the shaver broke and "could not be repaired". I had thankfully bought an extended warranty for him, but it is just a shame.