• Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    As long as they don’t lose money on their subscription products (like razor blades) they are glad to make sure your device requiring subscription supplies is functioning and you’re invested in more regular purchases of consumables.

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      19 hours ago

      This looks like a win win situation to me. You don’t have to replace your item and they continue to sell consumables.

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        13 hours ago

        They probably don’t make much money on the “razor” sale, the consumables though are almost all profit. It costs me a dime per blade for my safety razor which performs better anyway and can’t really ever break, plus it’s solid metal so easily recycled some day not that it would ever die in normal use cases.

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      1 day ago

      Jokes on em, I (don’t own any Philips product anymore) just buy off brand.

      But hey, repairability might make me consider their stuff in the future.

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        13 hours ago

        I use a safety razor. My blades are a dime a piece. The thing will last longer than I will, for sure.

        Being able to unscrew the blade to get all the bits of hair out with a quick rinse is way better than any of those multi-blade monstrosities.

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          10 hours ago

          I don’t shave as in shave all the way, I just trim, but I do use classic razor thingamabob for cleaning around.

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            10 hours ago

            I use some wahl clippers for beard trimming. I have so much hair on my face I still need to shave places to not be a scraggly ogre.

            Wahl peanut is great for this, but practically anything nowadays works.