Let me first say that I love Personna Med Prep blades and they work phenomenal for me!!! I had bought and used 30 of these blades from different shaving vendors and decided to go ahead and buy a package of 100. So I searched ebay & found a box of 100 for a decent price, the vendor had about 2400 sales and had no negative comments on his history so I thought he should be safe. I went in today and messaged him and he has offered to refund my money after I send him the blades. I had no problems......got them in a timely manner. I having been using Personna Med Prep Blades exclusively for the last year. So I loaded up the trusty 2013 R41 and right away noticed a problem ....a couple of nicks & some weepers. As I stated I can usually use a blade for about 7 shaves and it is still great....but after the second shave this blade was done. So I used 3 blades out of the 100 and had the same problem with all of them. I then pulled out one that I already had and used it......Heaven from the start to finish and again lasted 7 shaves. I compared blades and blade wrappers......the blades looked about the same except the writing looked smudged in a couple of places on the new ones. Now the big difference was in the wrappers....the one I already had was kind of a waxy paper and the new ones were not...... regular paper & thicker than the other one. Has anyone heard of a scam on Fake Personna Med Prep blades.......it would be a lot of work to fake them but hey you could probably do it.
I've actually just had a similar experience. I ordered this box of 100 from Personna: http://amzn.to/1D5JNND When I got them, the blades were just wrapped in plain white paper, not the regular blue wrappers I'd always seen. My first blade out of it gave me the worst shave ever. I tossed it. The second blade I took out of it was just like the Personna I expected. I chalked it up to dry skin and a bad blade. I think in my case at least the blades are fine. It's really pointless to fake a type of blade, especially one that's fairly inexpensive. You'd do better to just launch it as your own brand.
I ordered the same thing back in October. No problems for me. Looks like the price has dropped $2. My blades are wrapped in the blue Personna paper.
The Personna Surgical Prep Products web page shows their single-edge and double-edge blades, along with the corresponding razors. If you click on one of the blade selections, you will find the item number: Personna - Double Edge Prep Blade 100 Pack Item # 74-0002-0000 Personna - Double Edge Prep Blade 250 Pack Item # 74-0010-0000 Just Google on the part number of your choice to get links to sellers with the genuine article. Be aware that it is possible that Personna changed the med prep blades.
I have some new "Labs" and they are wrapped in the same fashion. I have not found them to be rough but very smooth and sharp.
By 'same fashion' do you mean wrapped just in white paper? That's how all of mine are and I think the rest are a-okay, it was just the first one out of the box that was bad for some reason.
Since your a Personna user you may want to try the Vikings Sword and Q-ball blades. They are out of the Personna plant in Israel and so not made in America, but I've found the VS's to be very good blades.
It might help identify the two blade types if pictures were posted. That won't do any good for folks who already purchased the "new" blades, but might help people who read this thread prior to buying Personna Prep blades in the future.
