Gillette Mach3 Turbo Refill Cartridges, 8-Count Box

First, I want to explain that I gave 5-stars because this is a product review and this product is excellent as a razor blade. HOWEVER, be careful where you buy it from, some sellers especially on ebay and amazon (third parties) are selling FAKE blades. It's hard to recognize at first but you can tell from a few things:

1. If you are familiar with Gillette shave, you will feel the difference immediately. For example, my one-month old genuine Gillette razor still shaves better than a fake one.

2. Lubricating strip on the fake one is not real. So, how do you know it? With real Gillette product you can immediately feel there is a lot of lubricant (a little sticky moisture feeling), BUT with the fake one, your face will feel very dry even when you used the blades for the first time. Because they are not lubricating! They are fake strips and made out of some plastic kind material.

3. Even after many months of use, If you try to remove lubricating strip...Read more

I should have read recent reviews regarding this fake blades before ordering it online.

Blades were rough and hurts the skin. I have been using Gillete for yrs
(purchased from store) and never had such bad experience. Even blades are
not clean as original ones and very close look can find other minor differences while comparing it to original.

I checked various things as suggested in another review and one of those clearly proved its fake. I tried to abuse blue plastic strip just under the blades, they were many micro-aligned plastic lines, and this lines tried to align back, but they left marks on abused spots.

Two steps to guarantee your blades will be REAL:

1) make sure it's eligible for Free Super Saver Shipping

2) make sure item is "Sold & Shipped by Amazon"

Very important that it's sold and shipped by Amazon. NOT sold by "So & So" and "Fulfilled" by Amazon - not good. Unfortunately these 3rd party sellers are selling fake blades - the ones everybody's complaining about - the same ones you'll find all over e-bay.

I'm ashamed to say I've been using the fake (knock-off, counterfeit) blades for a couple of years. I had a hunch that either something was wrong or Gillette wasn't consistent with their product. Because some blades were better than others, some just didn't feel right from the start, and none of them lasted all that long. So this time around when I went looking to purchase new shaving materials I heard all this talk about phony blades and it all made sense. Those bums definitely made a fool out of me with their slick packaging,...Read more