The older tallow versions of their shave soap are the best soaps of the dozens I've tried. Luckily, I've got half a dozen extra pucks in storage.
The lecture you received was part of the sales pitch. They want you to conform to their prescribed method of shaving so you'll buy their recommended products. When I hear the person talk--and it's always a woman curiously--it's like hearing an 18 year old at Best Buy tell me about TVs. All I hear is "blah, blah, blah, I don't know what I'm talking about".
I only go there to get samples. Of course they'd rather you buy something, so that's the direction a salesperson will go. If they don't give you samples, just turn around to leave. Their balm is OK, but their oil is wayyy too thick. I used a sample and it coated my sink and gunked up my razor, so use very, very sparingly.
Poor/not listening kills more sales than anything else.
P&G bought Gillette in January 2005. The TAoS deal happened in June 2009.
Yeah. I know it's fun to rag on AoS here, but that exchange sounded no different than going to a car dealership.
The difference is, one goes in armed, ready for battle into a car dealership. I didn't expect to have to be that way at AoS.
I'm also wondering about this....People dry clean shaving brushes?
AoS is selling an exclusive lifestyle and charging for it.
It's insulting on a personal level. And such tactics are doubly insulting when the person clearly doesn't even know what he/she is talking about. But as many of you have pointed out, this sort of sales technique is not unique to AoS.
AoS is to wet shaving what Bose is to home audio--they sell low to mid-range products at high end prices. This is because their primary product is a lifestyle. And because people want to be part of something exclusive and because money is the easiest metric to measure exclusivity, like with Bose, AoS products are way overpriced.
The lecture you received was part of the sales pitch. They want you to conform to their prescribed method of shaving so you'll buy their recommended products. When I hear the person talk--and it's always a woman curiously--it's like hearing an 18 year old at Best Buy tell me about TVs. All I hear is "blah, blah, blah, I don't know what I'm talking about".
I only go there to get samples. Of course they'd rather you buy something, so that's the direction a salesperson will go. If they don't give you samples, just turn around to leave. Their balm is OK, but their oil is wayyy too thick. I used a sample and it coated my sink and gunked up my razor, so use very, very sparingly.