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Chad Uses BAD blades!

Thank the Lord for buying power of larger distributors! I’m curious as to why a 3rd party vendor would even bother to pick up and sell any at that price, they can’t be moving that inventory very quickly...

Anyway, at least the shave was good! Thanks Chad!
 
Glad you started out with your Safety Crew. Would the Gillette Platinum almost be a relabeled Nacet?
 
There were two versions of Platinum blades from Russia, in two basic packs, dark platinum (dark blue frame on the box) and white platinum (white box). In the last couple of months, I belive they've all been replaced with one new version (for Europe at least) All blue box, white letters, printing on the blade is metalic. I can post a picture tomorrow (it's 1am, I'm in bed right now). Not sure what version you're using, on the sites you mentioned there is a dark one, but I'm guessing it's white packed in a dark box (because of the market). Reason is, DP were not so smoth on the first shave, and they gave me 3 shaves. White were better, and I could get 5. With this new pack I'm getting 6, and more. If you post picture of the box and the blade, I would be able to tell you more.
 
Gagi said:
There were two versions of Platinum blades from Russia, in two basic packs, dark platinum (dark blue frame on the box) and white platinum (white box). In the last couple of months, I belive they've all been replaced with one new version (for Europe at least) All blue box, white letters, printing on the blade is metalic. I can post a picture tomorrow (it's 1am, I'm in bed right now). Not sure what version you're using, on the sites you mentioned there is a dark one, but I'm guessing it's white packed in a dark box (because of the market). Reason is, DP were not so smoth on the first shave, and they gave me 3 shaves. White were better, and I could get 5. With this new pack I'm getting 6, and more. If you post picture of the box and the blade, I would be able to tell you more.
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Thanks for posting. In my research I remember reading about that. But what I could tell they were the same blade. I could be wrong though. The ones I used are the White Box. I bought singles from Tryablade.
 
Then you have black print Gillette with an arrow. They are better, DP had Gillette Platinum print on both sides. Here's the new pack
307
And blade now has metalic print
308
Nice of them to improve it a bit (white) and to drop cheaper version. They cost around 1$ here, and can be bought everywhere.
P. S. Glue amount is the same;)
 
Volume 73 Gillette Platinum Use 2

Well this morning I opted to go for the Game Changer Razor it has been awhile since I have used it and it is a bit more aggressive. And WOW the blade delivered. This blade is an excellent blade. I got great results. This blade just gives a good shave. There is no denying it, this deserves a 100 pack rating. I will have to invest in these blades that is for sure.




RATING SYSTEM
TRASH: Can't get a good shave. This blade is horrible. Never use again.
BAD: A bad blade but technically still got a serviceable shave, but have no desire to use the blade again.
GOOD: It was good enough that if I have another blade I wouldn't hesitate to use it.
100PACK: This blade was good enough to warrant stocking up!

Here are the updated lists and rankings:

** Blades Used **
  1. Muhle = Bad
  2. Van Der Hagen = Good
  3. Graham Field = Trash
  4. Super Homex = Bad
  5. Shark Super Chrome = Bad
  6. Shark Stainless Steel = 100 PACK
  7. Sputnik = 100 PACK
  8. Rockwell = Bad
  9. Parker = 100 PACK
  10. Bic Platinum = Trash
  11. Timor = Good
  12. MEM Super Silver Platinum = Trash
  13. Blue Bird = Good
  14. Gillette 7 O'clock Black = Good
  15. Royal Super Stainless = Bad
  16. Topaz Platinum = Bad
  17. ^Dorco 300 = Good
  18. Dorco 301 = Good
  19. Dorco Prime = Good
  20. Dorco Titan = Good
  21. Qball Platinum Plus = Good
  22. Treet King = Bad
  23. Derby Premium = 100 Pack
  24. Derby Extra = Bad
  25. Assured $1 = Trash
  26. Vincent VT300b = Trash
  27. ^ Gillette Super Thin = Good
  28. Lord Super Stainless = Good
  29. Lord Platinum = Good
  30. Lord Chrome = Good
  31. ^Lord Captain = Good
  32. Topaz Stainless = Bad
  33. Gillette Platinum = 100 Pack


^ - Discontinued

* 100 Pack Ranking*
  1. Parker Premium
  2. Sputnik
  3. Gillette Platinum
  4. Derby Premium
  5. Shark Stainless Steel
Good Ranking
  1. Qball Platinum Plus
  2. Lord Chrome
  3. Lord Captain
  4. Blue Bird Stainless
  5. Dorco Prime
  6. Gillette 7 O'Clock Black
  7. Gillette Super Thin
  8. Dorco Titan
  9. Dorco 300/301
  10. Timor
  11. Lord Platinum
  12. Lord Super Stainless
  13. Van Der Hagen
Bad Ranking
  1. Derby Extra
  2. Topaz Platinum
  3. Topaz Stainless
  4. Muhle
  5. Treet King
  6. Royal Super Stainless
  7. Super Homex
  8. Shark Chrome
  9. Rockwell
Trash Ranking
  1. Bic Platinum
  2. MEM Super Silver
  3. Vincent VT300b
  4. Assured $1
  5. Graham Field
 
Gagi said:
Then you have black print Gillette with an arrow. They are better, DP had Gillette Platinum print on both sides. Here's the new pack
View attachment 307
And blade now has metalic print
View attachment 308
Nice of them to improve it a bit (white) and to drop cheaper version. They cost around 1$ here, and can be bought everywhere.
P. S. Glue amount is the same;)
Click to expand...


How much to ship stateside lol.
 
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