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Nice idea. Now make the batteries replaceable in things like shavers, and stop making the replacement foils the printer ink of the personal grooming consumables world. For those that don’t know, you can buy a battery operated shaver for say $60 and the replacement foil and cutter will cost $30-40. Half the cost of a new shaver for a small bit of plastic and metal.
Dude, Just buy a a Wahl clipper set and avoid that headache.
Mine has a big beefy wall-plug one, and one that runs off two AA batteries. Also sturdy as fuck and I've abused and misused the damn thing for like 15 years and they are both still going strong.
I'm with you dude. Every electric shaver I ever bought just kept breaking, so finally I got a pair of Wahl clippers. That's the only thing my beard doesn't just eat up. If I need to get closer I wet shave