Binding: Health and Beauty
Brand: Remington
EAN: 0047700169002
Feature: Remington's top-of-the-line rotary shaver
Label: Remington
Manufacturer: Remington
Model: R-9500
MPN: RSR-REML357M12
Publisher: Remington
Studio: Remington

• Remington's top-of-the-line rotary shaver
• Smart Cleaner automatically cleans, charges and renews
• Smart Shaver Technology indicates time to replace heads, clean shaver, and number of minutes remaining
• More total floating action than other rotary shavers
• More blades than other rotary shavers for closer shaving

More cutting revolutions per minute give this rotary more power than other rotary shavers Easy-view pop-up trimmer precisely grooms sideburns, mustache and neckline Cleaning and charging base 55 minutes of run time Cord/Cordless (will run from batteries OR directly from cord) Automatic Worldwide Voltage Chrome finish

Customer Rating:
Summary: What are they talking about!
Comment: I bought the R-9500 for my husband over a year ago. And I think it has gotten a bad name from these other reviews. He changes the fluid and filter every other month. Sure it cost 5.oo for that, but a disposable razor costs more. We've never had any isuues with the cleaning unit or the razor. It is a wonderfully smooth shave. The razor tells you how much time is left on the batteries, so you know when to plug it in. He is a US Marine and takes this thing into all kinds of situations and it has NEVER failed him. When and if it breaks, we will replace it with the same model or one very similar!!!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: cleaning unit is not durable
Comment: There's nothing really wrong with the razor itself. The problem I've found is that the cleaning unit is shoddy and always fails (in various ways) long before the razor does. Thus you will end up buying full, expensive replacements often, including a new razor that you don't need -- or else, you'll end up tossing the cleaning unit and continuing to use the razor and clean it by hand, which is what I finally did.

The cleaning unit is convenient while it works, but it just doesn't last.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice concept, poor execution
Comment: The Remington R-9500 promises a self-cleaning feature using exclusive Remington cleaning fluid which needs to be replaced every month. This incurs an additional monthly cost of around $5. With the fluid comes a new filter. The filter does a good job catching the shaved stubble and must be replaced with the fluid.

A major problem in the design is the impeller shaft that pumps the cleaning fluid from the reservoir to the cleaning area. I've had to replace the entire cleaning base three times because the impeller shaft becomes rusty and breaks off, rendering the cleaning feature unuseable.

Gunk tends to build up in the shaving head and this needs to be disassembled regularly and cleaned by hand. If the self-cleaning feature worked as advertised, this shouldn't be necessary.

I would not recommend buying this product.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: One year later... garbage
Comment: Pros:
1) Rechargeable and could last for 30 minutes.

Cons:
1) Self cleaning is a joke. You must keep "fluid" in the shaver mount. The fluid becomes filled with "shaving by-products" and their bacteria. The "fluid" as a result becomes a "soup" which cakes up the internal components of the pumping mechanisms. After a year, no amount of cleaning can keep this system working efficiently.
2) The shaver itself is not "a close shave". A cheap $20 did a much better job.
3) The shaver has a noticeable reduced power after 10 minutes. I would not take this on the road.
4) Due to the "self-cleaning", the shaver is hard to clean manually.

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