I specifically made sure there are cheap alternatives to the original heads before I bought my tooth brush. Many companies didn't enshittify because they were shit from the beginning.
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Ooh, good idea
Many companies didn’t enshittify because they were shit from the beginning.
Clever, I like this.
I bought extra heads when I bought the toothbrush because they always stop making them and forcing me to replace it... Instead the charging dock thing was completely corroded and there's no way to charge the actual toothbrush anymore... I miss the replaceable battery ones at this point
Now I kinda wish I'd done that! I really miss the old electric toothbrush I had back in the mid-2000s. It had a nice little caddy for toothbrush heads between uses. Sadly, that one left the house with my ex, so I had to buy a new one.
And then another new one.
And yet ANOTHER new one.
But I'm not sure if I'm at 3 or 4 cycles since then. I had purchased a Phillips model that crapped out absurdly quickly (but still outside the warranty window, of course).
Guh, toothbrush purchases ought to be something boring, not something you have to carefully research and compare parts list numbers!
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I "solved" this problem by losing my original OralB (non-IO) and being forced to replace it with an OralB IO, then finding my original OralB. I keep one in the upstairs bathroom and one in the downstairs, and now I can use either type, lol!
Oof, that could be a post entirely on its own!
This sort of thing winds me right up. I've been burned too many times before on things like it to the point that if something is not absolutely essential to my existence I will not buy your thing if it needs replacement parts eventually.
Congratulations, people who create proprietary parts to ensure brand loyalty, you played yourselves.
IO is the expensive line isnt it? it isnt worth it to get those. get 1000-1500 series, the heads the off brand ones are relatively cheap on amazon. i got the german replacement heads for the 1000, 10 for under 20, these are official replacement for the EU version, it still works on the american ones.
dont buy replacement heads in store, oral b gouges people with it. its pratically the printers inks of the brush industry.
Ah, there's the thing. My wife and I try to avoid buying from amazon. Bezos has too much of our money already.
We do look for off-brand replacement heads, but there are more gotchas than I realized until last week.
the OG heads are very expensive unfortunately, thats why i had to buy it replacement heads online that are adjacent off-brand. i dont see my oralb1000 german edition anymore(likely becaise it was from EU and its hard to ship it to the states)
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