A short, but interesting article, on this form of marketing. It started with razor blades...Giving Away the Razor, Selling the Blades
Cell phones and razors. The best way to deal with those disposable blades is to grow a beard. Those 2, 3, 4 and 5 blade razor blades are a marketing gimmick in themselves. They're so thin, as razor blades are, that they dull quickly enough themselves, but when you put so many on one head they plug up with soap and beard hair long before they get dull. They're almost impossible to clean adequately enough to use until they dull. The result? You have to buy new blades. Yay! for the company! I've always hated these new multi-blade razors. (Actually, I've found one company that markets a disposable razor that has a little button on the back that pushes a simple divider forward and pushes out all the muck that accumulates between the blades. It's nice, but it's disposable. Not very green.) My small rant. Sorry...
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