€15.40 for Mach 3 blades!

PCros

Had to buy them the other night because I was scruffy and had a meeting the next morning

But Centra on the Rathbeale Road, Swords charged me €15.40??? When the till girl scanned it she looked more suprised than I did and even scanned them again.

I seem to get ripped off everytime I have to buy something!

I usually get them in JC's and they are around 11 something.

antoinolachtnai

Well, they are the best a man can get you know. You're lucky to be able to get such a fine product at all.

Can't see the point in high-end razor blades myself.

TheDriver

Seems to be a regular occurance in smaller centra type shops, even bottle of milk is dearer here

Wishbone Ash

TheDriver wrote:

even bottle of milk is dearer

Haven't seen one of those in years!

mike65

Never buy the "latest thing" a 5 pack of Sensor Excels cost about a tenner.

Mike.

Wishbone Ash

mike65 wrote:

Never buy the "latest thing" a 5 pack of Sensor Excels cost about a tenner.

Mike.

...or buy a pack of the old style safety razor blades and sharpen them on the inside rim of a jam jar.

mike65

Ugh! I can hear the hollow scraping sound right now! :eek:

Mike.

PCros

I cant use any of the other blades because my skin is ridiculously sensitive, have to get the mach 3 turbo with the aloe!:(

Blisterman

Try using a shaving brush and soap, along with a safety razor, used gently.
It makes the hairs stick up, and moisturises the skin, for a close shave.

311

A stanley blade and a box of bold will do the job

BigTommyBomb

Never buy anything in small centra/spar type outlets if you want to get good value.

antoinolachtnai

Well, it is good value in the sense that the OP got to his meeting, looking spruce.

GrumPy

PCros wrote:

I cant use any of the other blades because my skin is ridiculously sensitive, have to get the mach 3 turbo with the aloe!:(

AND BEFORE THEY WERE INVENTED YOU USEd.....? (soz caps)

GreeBo

Irish GrumPy wrote:

(soz caps)

ehh the delete button?
Thats like people who cross stuff out on a blackboard! :rolleyes:

rubadub

PCros wrote:

I cant use any of the other blades because my skin is ridiculously sensitive, have to get the mach 3 turbo with the aloe!:(

Go electric, takes about a month of pain to get used to it, good electric and a tub of sudocreme.

€5.40 is not too bad, a lot of stuff like that is over double the price in spar/centra, and each blade has about 20 blades on it now

CrowdedHouse

mike65 wrote:

Never buy the "latest thing" a 5 pack of Sensor Excels cost about a tenner.

Mike.

....and in my experience(and I've tried most of them) there has been no significant improvement since Sensor

PCros

Irish GrumPy wrote:

AND BEFORE THEY WERE INVENTED YOU USEd.....? (soz caps)

Whatever ones were before the mach 3. Slightly obvious there.....:rolleyes:

keizer

I bought 24 mach 3 razor blades on ebay last october and im only coming to the end of them now.....only cost me something like €25.

unreggd

U can get 10 Tesco Value blades for like 50c!

And they're amazin! And since they're so cheap ye dont hafta bleed them dry so the blades are always fresh


Mach 3 Shmach 3 IMO

MOH

unreggd wrote:

U can get 10 Tesco Value blades for like 50c!

And they're amazin! And since they're so cheap ye dont hafta bleed them dry so the blades are always fresh


Mach 3 Shmach 3 IMO

But the results are so bad even your avatar has to mask its face ...

squire1

I've being using Sensor since they came out. Still have the original razor too. Don't see any reason to change. Tried some of the new ones with three blades and a strip of stickey stuff on them but...nah. Do some of them have four blades now?

Shave properly with a good sharp razor and your skin will be fine.

egan007

I have the same mach 3 blad in since December now.....
Heat the steel under hot water before a shave and it's still grand.

Jumpy

egan007 wrote:

I have the same mach 3 blad in since December now.....
Heat the steel under hot water before a shave and it's still grand.

Thats skin you are shaving now. I think all your hair follicles were in the previous layer you tore off. :rolleyes:
Since december? jesus... ouch.

ongarite

bloody hell, i'm lucky to get 3 good weeks out of a Mach 3. By the 4th week its blunt as hell and I'm getting bad razor burns, bumps