As long as a DE blade is still significantly cheaper than a cart, a lot of guys will still use them. Even if they went up to $3 or $4 a blade, some diehards would use them. But it would spell the end of new DE razor production. There are enough good vintage Gillettes going around to satisfy the market.
It would not negatively affect me. Like Rabidus, I have a good stock of DE blades. I have lets see... about 300 Feathers and a few odd dispensers of wilkies, personnas, and a pack or two of 7 Oclock greens. And I use a DE maybe once or twice a month, the rest of the time rotating through my 15 lbs or so of straight razors, or doing something different like a wedge type SE, or an injector.
I imagine that the bluehandle types probably go for about 15 cents in India or China. DE shaving would die out, mostly, in less economically advantaged countries. I think it is largely price that keeps guys using DE in many less prosperous countries. Take that away and the bottom falls out of the bucket.
Injector blades are not very cheap these days, and guys still don't mind paying as much as 80 cents per blade, here in the U.S. but it is mostly the diehards of course using vintage razors who are buying them, not eeny meeny miney moe let me pick a shaving system cause I just went through puberty and need to start shaving type guys.
TBH it is really kind of hard to figure the amazing resurgence in DE shaving in the developed world. The grooming megacorporations really do an effective job of marketing the crappy modern systems but DE seems to be coming out of the fringes somewhat, anyway.
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What if prices went way up?
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