Without A Doubt The Absolute Biggest Piece Of Crap I've Ever Bought
And that doesn't only go for razors. This thing is the worst purchase of any kind I've ever made in<br />my entire life. Nearly $200 worth of junk.<br /><br />I've used nothing but Norelco razors since I was 15 years old. That is well over 25 years now. I've<br />bought more than 10 different Norelcos over the years. I had not and would not even consider<br />buying any other brand of razor. Some were better than others, but none even begins to compare<br />to this piece of junk. The then 10 year old razor I got as a hand-me-down when I was 15 shaved<br />100 times better than this piece of crap ever did.<br /><br />I've always bought the top of line Norelco whenever something new and "better" came out. This<br />piece of crap was no exception. Oh how great they made it look on the commercials all over the<br />TV. The wonder shaver of shavers, they claimed. Just read the company description here on this<br />page. It is all lies.<br /><br />Now I'm not all haired up like a gorilla or anything. I have just normal thickness of hair and<br />growth. I usually shave every day and with every other Norelco I've ever owned I could get the<br />job done in less than 3 minutes. Using this hunk of junk it takes well over 15 minutes of rubbing,<br />scrubbing, and shoving this thing around trying to get it to work. I've tried stretching my skin so<br />tight that the skin on my neck was pulled up to my earlobe and it still doesn't cut the hair. I've<br />tried going back and forth, up and down, around in circles, clockwise, counter clockwise,<br />everything imaginable and no matter how you do it, this piece of junk just does not shave.<br /><br />Even with brand new blades this razor misses about 1 in 10 hairs on my neck. And when I say it<br />misses them, I mean it completely misses them. They are not cut at all. It misses about twice as<br />many under the jaw line. And all of this is after 15+ minutes of shaving! So much for their line of<br />"even on the neck".<br /><br />Oh and don't worry, no one will be able to miss that you look like you had a blindfolded 3 year<br />old give you 10 second shave. I can assure you that after nearly half an hour of ramming and<br />scrubbing this thing around on your neck, it will have a nice red glow for about 2 or 3 hours that<br />just screams "hey look at my 15 minute halfass shave". And I do not even have sensitive skin.<br /><br />If you plan to use the pop up trimmer it is as big of a joke as the rest of the razor. It is about half<br />an inch wide and while it does work better than the rest of the razor it sounds like a wood chipper<br />when it is cutting. Think I'm joking? Just get one and try it. The first time I used it I actually<br />yanked it away from my neck. It didn't pinch or cut me but the sound of it made me think that it<br />had.<br /><br />Oh and do not let me forget, you also get the pleasure of stopping and emptying the hair<br />chambers at least twice during each shave. If you fail to do this it cuts even worse (if such a thing<br />is possible) because this razor effectively does not have a place to store what hair it does manage<br />to cut. There are 3 individual hair "chambers" on the razor. One for each cutting head. They fill<br />up very quickly and then begin to puke the cut hair all over whatever you are standing over while<br />you are "shaving".<br /><br />Now after you clean the bathroom sink (or wherever you were) of all the puked hair, you still get<br />to clean the razor. Don't worry, it is just as easy as running it under the faucet, right? That is what<br />they claim. Simply running it under the facet works for a few times but that does not get<br />everything out of the razor and it builds up over the course of a few days.<br /><br />Now the geniuses that made this piece of junk cleverly decided to make the cutting head all one<br />piece. Unlike every other Norelco I've ever owned you can not take the cutters out of the combs<br />and clean them. They are made as all one piece. You cannot even take the cutter and comb out of<br />the head, everything is all molded together. All you can do is stick the cleaning brush that they<br />give you (which is as big a piece of junk as the razor) in behind the cutters and try to scrape out<br />what you can while spinning the cutter around and around. I quickly wore out the the cleaning<br />brush they supplied and started using a stiff bristle toothbrush instead. That doesn't work very<br />well either but it is much better than what they give you.<br /><br />I've tried many different ways of cleaning the heads of this thing and the best way I came up with<br />was to use a container with a sealable lid and fill it halfway with very hot water. Spray some<br />cleaner on the head and put it in the container of water and shake it around as hard as you can for<br />a couple of minutes. I used foaming bathroom cleaner to clean it. Worked well. Might as well use<br />what you have and with this razor you are going to use a lot of that anyway to clean up all of the<br />puked hair.<br /><br />Lastly, if while shaving you are unfortunate enough to get anywhere near to the hair on your head<br />with this wonder machine, it will suck it up like a Hoover from 3 inches away. Can't cut the hair<br />on your face and neck to save its life but it will grab hold of your hair from 3 inches away a suck<br />it into the cutters. Now with the other Norelcos I've had that was never too much of a problem.<br />You just take the cutter and comb apart and take the stray hair out, but remember this was<br />designed as a single piece so you do not get to do that. I've spent 5 minutes many times, fishing a<br />single head hair out of one of the cutters.<br /><br />So in conclusion, just how bad is this razor?<br /><br />After a year of all of the above I have just completely had it with the piece junk. And like I said, I've never<br />owned any other brand of razor, but I feel completely lied to, cheated, and ripped off by this razor<br />and Norelco. My solution: I have just ordered a Panasonic and I will never again buy anything<br />made by Norelco. I hope they choke on my money, they will never get another cent of it. EVER!<br /><br />Are you going to give them yours?
Rating: 1 stars