<story><title>Dollar Shave Club Is Valued at $615M</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/21/dollar-shave-club-valued-at-615-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nobleach</author><text>I liked their branding. It had that hip internet company feel. The little leaflets and stuff that they sent with each razor pack were just fun. After time, their razors began to hurt and feel like they were pulling hair more than I remember at the beginning. One Saturday I did an A&amp;#x2F;B test with a store-bought Gillette 5 blade against the DSC ultimate 6 blade. I lathered up and shaved with a brand new DSC blade and it was just a little painful. Brand new Gillette, smooth as silk. I decided that even though the Dollar Shave Club was cheaper (Gillette from a drugstore is 15-20 bucks for refills) I couldn&amp;#x27;t have a painful shave experience. I had my phone in hand to take pics of the experience and thought... hey, I&amp;#x27;ll just cancel right now. I could not find a way to do it. I could only pause my delivery. Finally a couple of months later, I hunted around their website a bit and didn&amp;#x27;t immediately see anything related to &amp;quot;quitting the club&amp;quot;. After a google search, I finally met with success.... only to start receiving plenty of email from them. I unsubscribed and so far I haven&amp;#x27;t heard from them again. I doubt I&amp;#x27;ll try Gillette&amp;#x27;s shave club as I&amp;#x27;ve heard they just send out their &amp;quot;not as sharp&amp;quot; razors for the reduced price. Maybe I should just grow a beard....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fennecfoxen</author><text>Consider a simple old-fashioned safety razor with double-edged razor blades. They&amp;#x27;re not quite as fast and effective as the 4 (+1) bladed razors, but for the $30 you&amp;#x27;d pay for a four-pack of the Mach 5 blades you can also get ~100 Feather blades off Amazon (Prime) so even if you replace the blade &lt;i&gt;every single time&lt;/i&gt; they&amp;#x27;ll last you &lt;i&gt;four months&lt;/i&gt; or so. and if you do that, they &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; be sharp enough.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dollar Shave Club Is Valued at $615M</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/21/dollar-shave-club-valued-at-615-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nobleach</author><text>I liked their branding. It had that hip internet company feel. The little leaflets and stuff that they sent with each razor pack were just fun. After time, their razors began to hurt and feel like they were pulling hair more than I remember at the beginning. One Saturday I did an A&amp;#x2F;B test with a store-bought Gillette 5 blade against the DSC ultimate 6 blade. I lathered up and shaved with a brand new DSC blade and it was just a little painful. Brand new Gillette, smooth as silk. I decided that even though the Dollar Shave Club was cheaper (Gillette from a drugstore is 15-20 bucks for refills) I couldn&amp;#x27;t have a painful shave experience. I had my phone in hand to take pics of the experience and thought... hey, I&amp;#x27;ll just cancel right now. I could not find a way to do it. I could only pause my delivery. Finally a couple of months later, I hunted around their website a bit and didn&amp;#x27;t immediately see anything related to &amp;quot;quitting the club&amp;quot;. After a google search, I finally met with success.... only to start receiving plenty of email from them. I unsubscribed and so far I haven&amp;#x27;t heard from them again. I doubt I&amp;#x27;ll try Gillette&amp;#x27;s shave club as I&amp;#x27;ve heard they just send out their &amp;quot;not as sharp&amp;quot; razors for the reduced price. Maybe I should just grow a beard....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>Funny how their strategy seems to be based on annoying ads and locking people to their service&lt;p&gt;About shaving: after I got an electrical one I never looked back</text></comment>