Fake Feathers or do they have a new logo?

sammar · Aug 4, 2011

Last week I ordered some new shaving supplies including one sample pack of DE blades. Among the new blades there were pack of Feather blades I already had tried, but I noticed that packaging is different than my previous pack of Feathers.

So, had they changed their logo and made some slight adjustments lately or did I got some fake Feathers? I tried to search Internet for images of Feather packs but all I could find had this familiar triangle logo on them...

pirateskull · Aug 4, 2011

I got a new pack and it had the triangle

finotti · Aug 4, 2011

May I ask from whom did you get it? Have you contacted the vendor? Have you opened it yet to see how it looks inside?

That is very odd... I just ordered some new Feather's (from Westcoast Shaving, so they should be real) but don't have them with me to look now. (I will write again after I can take a look at them.)

smalltank · Aug 4, 2011

Usually if they were from FleaBay...look where the shipping location is...Japan is the original place or otherwise being a fake

Dalejr · Aug 4, 2011

I don't think they are fakes...

kg0mz · Aug 4, 2011

There is a "Top Rated" UK seller with the rectangular version on eBay.

finotti · Aug 4, 2011

My new ones have the triangle. (Not that it really means anything....)

Gone Gray · Aug 6, 2011

I would wager that the ones with the rectangle emblem are counterfeit because why would they give up or change their famous trademark? Also, the rectangle emblem is much easier to make a graphic picture--the real trademark graphic feathers would take more time to duplicate.

Who did you get the blades from?

rajagra · Aug 6, 2011

The bottom pack has the different logo, slightly different font used for "FEATHER", and a "®" that is absent from the top one.
Does the bottom pack also have any of the traditional typos of a fake?

sammar · Aug 7, 2011

I bought those blades from Connaught Shaving (United Kingdom).

I opened the package and compared one blade to one from other package and they look identical including those grease drops.

Plastic packages are almost identical, except that triangular version has "J 1" code on corner of back side while square version has "K 1". Printed serial(?) number in the end of the package is of course different, in square version it is "266811F".

Wil Dorenbos · Aug 7, 2011

Gone Gray said:
I would wager that the ones with the rectangle emblem are counterfeit because why would they give up or change their famous trademark? Also, the rectangle emblem is much easier to make a graphic picture-?

My Feather Pro Guard blades have the rectangle emblem. They come straight from Japan (group buy last month).
My Feather DE blades have the triangular logo, but has been a while since I bought them.

ikeyballz · Aug 7, 2011

Both of my feather 10 packs, one from dridiot and another from WCS have the triangle.

Gone Gray · Aug 7, 2011

sammar said:
I bought those blades from Connaught Shaving (United Kingdom).

I opened the package and compared one blade to one from other package and they look identical including those grease drops.

Plastic packages are almost identical, except that triangular version has "J 1" code on corner of back side while square version has "K 1". Printed serial(?) number in the end of the package is of course different, in square version it is "266811F".

Bottom line is the use the blades and see how they shave. No other blade on the market (IMO) shaves like a Feather. They're very distinctive...smoooooooth. Please let us know what you think. I would recommend using the same razor when you compare the blades.

The plastic cases are very generic and I wouldn't place much emphasis on their numbering system. I order my blades from dridiot (B&B Vendor) and, so far, all the boxes have the two feather emblem.

Gone Gray · Aug 7, 2011

finotti said:
My new ones have the triangle. (Not that it really means anything....)

So, could these be very old stock?

Wil Dorenbos · Aug 7, 2011

Gone Gray said:
So, could these be very old stock?

Do not know, but the Feather AC SS is a new model, and on the box is the rectangular logo.

john.bradburne · Aug 7, 2011

the difference in logo is as simple as one is a 5 pack and the other is a 10 pack. but the blades are exactly the same. and if they are fake theyre still giving me BBS shaves :001_tt2:

Gone Gray · Aug 7, 2011

john.bradburne said:
the difference in logo is as simple as one is a 5 pack and the other is a 10 pack. but the blades are exactly the same. and if they are fake theyre still giving me BBS shaves

That's good to know.

Myosin · Aug 7, 2011

Why would anyone fake razor blades in the first place?

It's not like mass producing blades is something you can do in your garage. It takes hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, materials, owning/renting a factory, and labor.

Anyone with the ability to mass produce blades wouldn't take the risk of faking a major brand like feather.

rajagra · Aug 7, 2011

Myosin said:
Anyone with the ability to mass produce blades wouldn't take the risk of faking a major brand like feather.

Well, if they take on Proctor and Gamble, a smaller company like Feather wouldn't be considered a threat.
How to spot a fake Iridium Super Extra Stainless.

Go West Young Man · Aug 7, 2011

Myosin said:
Why would anyone fake razor blades in the first place?

It's not like mass producing blades is something you can do in your garage. It takes hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, materials, owning/renting a factory, and labor.

Anyone with the ability to mass produce blades wouldn't take the risk of faking a major brand like feather.

It's not so much that someone would 'fake' a blade as that either

a) someone is running the machinery after-hours and selling those blades into the 3rd party market. The blades come from the same production line, but without any quality control

or

b) seconds/rejects get quietly rescued from the trash pile and resold to the 3rd party resellers.

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