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July 30, 2009

Two Out Of Three Aint Bad

Filed under: A Better Shave, All Shavers.com Blog Posts, What's New, Which Shaver Is For Me? — Tags: , , , — Bogie @ 9:59 am

It’s finally happened.

The heavens have opened. Pigs are flying. Snowballs are not melting in hell.  All that and the fact that Shavetronics finally has another shaver ready for sale. The first attempt came out pretty good with the Weekender double-head pocket rotary shaver. Then there was the disaster of the ST-50 single-head cord model shaver–there will be no need to rehash that here. But now, finally, another success with the “soft launch” of the new ST-100 universal (110-220v), Intercontinental Rechargeable Shaver.

Hallelujah.

What’s the skinny? Well first and foremost what must be said is that this is a POWERFUL shaver. It’s like a freight train across your face so the first piece of advice we are offering with the sale of this unit is to please us a gently touch with this razor. Pressing hard against your face with this machine will dramatically reduce the lifespan of the foil and cutter, and in some cases cause razor burn. Dont press hard.

Another thing we are proud of is the single unit foil/cutter/headframe combo for replacing the parts. Oh sure, you can take the foil and cutters out individually if you want to, but we will be selling the entire unit as a combo to make the swap as easy as possible. And yes, the headframe is one solid unit of metal. Yes, a metal headframe. Try damaging that by tapping on the sink. You’ll break the sink.

The shaver comes with everything you need to get going, so if you are looking for a simple, powerful, easy-to-use shaver with minimal bells n whistles and at a great price, then the Shavetronics ST-100 Shaver is for you.

Available now on Shavers.com.

May 20, 2009

Sereez Three dash thReEseveNty

Filed under: All Shavers.com Blog Posts, What's New, Which Shaver Is For Me? — Tags: , , — Bogie @ 12:59 pm

The first round of new Braun shavers have landed with a resounding “thud” at the doorway of Shavers.com. The new “series-3″ shavers, as they’re called, promise a whole new experience of good shaving fun for all us unbearded boys.

Yeah, right.

Y’see, there’s a problem. Now I hate to start off resoundingly negative, especially when I have yet to touch of those new beauties to my face as of yet. The problem started even before the shavers went into production. As many of you may have noticed, for some reason the Braun company (aka P&G) feels that there are far too few numbers in the universe and therefore must reuse them continuously and promote mass confusion in those who have bought a Braun shaver prior to…well, today. 

While this new line has many of these examples, let’s focus on one in particular. A shiny new example called the “Braun Series 3-370″. Sounds simple enough, right? It’s a series 3 shaver and it’s the 370 model. What’s the problem?

The problem is that up until about a month ago (as of this writing) the Braun series 3-370 was a completely different shaver. It was a shaver that used to be called the model “5885″ which was changed to “series 3-370″ in order to conform to the new naming and numbering system that the young suits at Braun are all frothed up about.

Confused yet? No? Don’t see the issue here? Wait…it gets better.

You see, the “old” series 3-370, formerly the 5885, takes a foil and cutter set called the “5000/6000 series”. Why? Because when it was still called the “5885″, that made perfect sense to all the existing Braun customers and shaver sellers. 5885=5000 series, and it was good. But then the name was changed to include the words “series 3″ which said to existing Braun customers that it must be the 3000 series foil and cutter set that fits that shaver. That would only make sense based on the way Braun did their numbering system for the past 60 years, right? Wrong. Not anymore.

So what do we have here? We have a brand new “series 3-370″ that just came out to replace the old “series 3-370″ that uses a different foil and cutter set (not yet available for sale) that has no relation to the old (5885) model, that comes either with or without a clean & charge system, and no way for the poor customer to officially differentiate the models they have for the purpose of purchasing parts.

OH! And did I mention? The number “370″ also refers to a Braun pocket shaver that is still out for sale today, but has been officially been renamed the “P70″, despite that there are literally thousands of Braun 370 pocket shavers out there with the little “370″ imprinted on them. What fun!

All summed up, my fine fellows, this is a mess. And not just some crumbs on the table, mind you. We are talking mud on the celling, lost all control of the hose, dog ate the ex-lax kind of mess that makes you want to just suck the thumb and cry for awhile. We’ll do the best we can on the website to keep the confusion under control, hopefully Braun will learn from mistake backlash they’re going to get from all this. Maybe.

November 25, 2008

Thankstaking

Filed under: All Shavers.com Blog Posts — Tags: , , , — Bogie @ 3:47 pm

Okay, I know that is a really stupid title, but how can you make fun of Thanksgiving and somehow tie it in with shavers?
You can’t, so instead I’ll just do my yearly pontification of what looks hot in electric shavers this year, okay?

We all know that Braun Pulsonic…sorry, I mean the “Braun Series 7″ model shavers are by far the hottest thing out there in
shaving these days, having whooped the collective asses of Norelco, Remington and Panasonic together. While this fact
continues to be the case (Panasonic is the only manufacturer to come out with a new shaver this year
(see the Arc IV Model ES8249), that does not mean that the
collective scruffy-faces of mankind and their gift-hunting significant-others, should not look at all the possibilities.

So as a reminder and with a callback to past posts of yesteryear, let’s be reminded that Remington still offers some really
nice, economical options. Especially the rotary series of shavers (the R-1000, R-520, and R-825) have always proven to be
excellent alternatives to Norelco’s dominance of the rotary style of shaver. The micro screen shavers are also good standbys
and the F720 Titanium is a rinseable “lift n’ wash” shaver that is nothing to be sneezed at.

Norelco is still penitently offering up its Arcitec line to us, sticking to their guns that this design is definitely the
nextgen of rotary electric shavers. Personally, and a lot of customers agree with me, this line of shavers has really gotten
a bum rap over their first year of distribution and while Philips fights to get the recognition they deserve, rotary users
should not thumb their noses at these shavers. After all, they do give you two months to decide whether you really like it or
not. What’s to lose?

Panasonic seems to be looking for the Guinness World record for “Most Expensive Shaver, Ever” category. The Arc IV Nano Vortex
series of shaver (three words and a roman numeral that effectively mean absolutely nothing) promises the same ol’
“best-ever-washable-super-fast-billion rpm-blah-blah-blah” but ultimately looks like every other Panasonic model that has come
out over the last three years. Now, I am NOT saying that it is a bad shaver-the verdicts have not come in yet. It may be the
greatest shaver ever, but as always, time will tell. They are certainly charging enough so it better have something behind it
to justify that kind of price.

Well, here we are again at another holiday season kickoff. Basically the all too rare situations exists where all the major
manufacturers have some really good shavers, and more importantly, some really good deals considering this economy.
Have at it…
…and save me a drumstick.

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