I’m making a callout post on my tumblr dot com. (I’m ranting about some inconsequential bullshit) What is it with companies these days having the most generic names possible? I bought a journal today, the brand was “Bullet Journal”. The marketing card in the front says they’re featured in NYT, WSJ, Forbes, BBC, genuinely who cares? I don’t buy my journals because they’re recommended by some iNfLuEnCeR. I will use literally any journal with dot grid paper that doesn’t bleed like it’s been shot.
The second company I’m calling out for this bullshit: Supply Co (yeah the razor company). Talk about a generic name, like no shit your company supplies something. That’s what companies do.
Supply Co specifically is such a Shark Tank (derogatory) company. They advertise on their website that they’ve been on Shark Tank, which explains far too much. I can tell, and I hate it. They started with a perfectly good product, and made every single quality of life feature cost extra. I can tell that they’ve spent an incredible amount of time engineering their product and its accessories to charge exactly as much as you’re willing to pay for exactly as many accessories as you’ll buy, and it’s awful.
Part of their claim to fame is that injector blades cost less than proprietary cartridges. That’s true, but when you’re nickel and diming your customers like this, your intent is hardly better than Gillette and the Procter & Gamble monopoly.
Their razor is great, I have one. But I’ll never ever recommend their product to someone, because their business model is consumer-hostile garbage. The rubber grip that you need to be able to hold the razor in the shower without dropping it and slicing your toes off is an accessory you have to pay extra for. So is the stand, and literally everything except the bare minimum product. It feels like paying for a car and receiving a bare frame with an engine on it. Seats cost extra, I guess? Fuck off and go back to sucking the toes of J. P. Morgan’s rotting corpse.
