I suppose a perspective could be that an 8 pack of Fusion cartridges was on sale at the grocery for the low price of $30.69 making it a per unit cost of $3.84 if you used 1 per week for a year you are already at $200. Ok, so maybe that isn't so fair to compare the thing we love to hate. Personally, if I can justify that cost for a nice straight razor, I can probably do so with something I'll actually use everyday. I am going to go out on a sturdy limb and say cost wasn't the driving factor when making a weapon of folicular destruction out of awesome. I await patiently.