I liked the shaver so much I bought the company - Remington Ad 1979

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  • I liked the razor so much I bought the company. Date: 1979. Advertiser: Remington. Presenter: Victor Kiam
    The president of Remington shavers in 1978: "When my wife bought me a Remington shaver, I was so impressed I bought the company". Victor Kiam would often appear in television advertisements for Remington shavers and say: "Shaves as close as a blade, or your money back!"

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  • @soulplate7939
    @soulplate7939 Před 7 lety +274

    Aphex Twin brought me here.

  • @22Yeller
    @22Yeller Před 3 lety +31

    Remember seeing the ad in 1979. Was well impressed. I thought to myself " Money back? You can't say fairer than that". British companies just didnt make those kinds of promises. Their attitude was " Doesn't work? Tough luck mate ". Bought a Remington + have been buying them ever since. Possibly my fave ad of all time !

    • @johnclarke2997
      @johnclarke2997 Před rokem

      Not got a shaver. I bought some hair clippers with different depths. 15mm depth just right for me. Much easier than the hassle of going into town to visit the barbers.

  • @johncutts6466
    @johncutts6466 Před 3 lety +20

    Possibly the best ad ever. I know it by heart 42 years later

  • @lanilou
    @lanilou Před 7 lety +39

    My dad was Victor Kiams director of advertising from 1969 on . He wrote his commercials at Benrus and later at Remington .

  • @melesmelesfaber3866
    @melesmelesfaber3866 Před 4 lety +14

    This ad is so stamped into my brain, one can't get away from it!

  • @jasons2559
    @jasons2559 Před 11 měsíci +2

    One of the greatest adverts ever made.

  • @TheMOV13
    @TheMOV13 Před 6 lety +21

    Oh no - I remember thinking he was an old guy when I saw this ad on TV all those years ago. Now I guess he's about the same age as I am now.

  • @animanoir
    @animanoir Před 10 měsíci +1

    Thank you Aphex Twin.

  • @SnowDaulphin
    @SnowDaulphin Před rokem +1

    “I liked the Big Macs so much, I bought the Company!”

  • @nmejias370
    @nmejias370 Před 2 lety +3

    I am reading his book "Going For It!", very fascinating indeed.

  • @awilliams468
    @awilliams468 Před 4 lety +2

    This shit has been in my head since 1979... and I just remembered it, again, so here I am. fml.

  • @rockall66
    @rockall66 Před rokem +8

    How many people actually claimed their money back? Having bought electric shavers, quite recently, there is no way they shave anything like "As Close as a Blade" Back in the Seventies, I'd imagine they'd shave as close as a potato.

  • @Freshmouse
    @Freshmouse Před 7 lety +11

    Hi Richard!

  • @oraziolegname5941
    @oraziolegname5941 Před 7 lety +57

    AFX

  • @alexcuin8029
    @alexcuin8029 Před 2 lety +1

    I have 5 of those and work very good

  • @mullokh
    @mullokh Před rokem

    I'm fifty pages into The Dynasty. I just had to check this out.

  • @thatguyineverycommentssection
    @thatguyineverycommentssection Před 11 měsíci

    underrated razor

  • @MichaelCzajka
    @MichaelCzajka Před 8 lety +43

    Always impressed by this ad.
    A good example of putting your money were your mouth is?

    • @thefurrybastard1964
      @thefurrybastard1964 Před 8 lety +4

      And they were true to their word too. My Dad bought one, it didn't give him as good a shave as his razor, and he got his £20 back.

    • @DellaStreet123
      @DellaStreet123 Před 3 lety +4

      @@thefurrybastard1964 I've heard that from others, too. They really refunded money. I'm not sure if it's really possible to shave as close with an electric as with a safety razor like the one shown in the ad, but I guess many men thought that the result was a close call. Wet shaving is also a lot about technique. My grandfather always claimed that he could shave just as fast with a safety razor as with an electric and still got a closer shave that made him feel "clean".

    • @thefurrybastard1964
      @thefurrybastard1964 Před 3 lety

      @@DellaStreet123 My granddad used a cuthroat razor, he always got a smooth shave. He always said it was abetter shave than any modern shaver.

    • @DellaStreet123
      @DellaStreet123 Před 3 lety +5

      @@thefurrybastard1964 I loved those stories my grandmother told me about *her* grandfather shaving in the backyard. He was the only man in the house, WWII, was going on. She liked to watch her grandfather shaving. How he whisked up the lather, how he stropped the razor and, eventually, the faces he pulled during the shave itself. He blew up his cheeks, he tilted his head back and pulled a grinning face before going over his throat -- he even blew up the part over the lip. Self-shaving with a straight razor was still common throughout the first half of the 20th century in Germany. My great-aunt learned how to shave others with a straight during her training as a barber/ladies' hairdresser (she did both) and when she died, this inspired me to learn how to do it, too. I did my first practice on my legs. They are within convenient reach and the skin is relatively though, tougher than the skin on the average man's face. The design of the straight is excellent. It doesn't matter that it cannot get as sharp as a modern razor blade. It's all about the weight, the bevel (stropping is really essential) and technique. It is also great that you can control how close you want to shave your "victim". In the past, barbers sometimes asked their clients how close they wanted their shave. Not everybody wanted it BBS ("baby bum smooth2) as some shaving nerds call it today. A man is a man, not a baby's bum, for critter's sake.

    • @thefurrybastard1964
      @thefurrybastard1964 Před 3 lety

      @@DellaStreet123 Thank you for a post that I thouroughly enjoyed reading

  • @The-Clockwork-Eye
    @The-Clockwork-Eye Před rokem

    I modelled my own little company intro video on this style, struggling to get it all in 30-seconds though, this is an amazing advert. 👏

  • @artemiszeus9735
    @artemiszeus9735 Před 3 lety

    I remember watching this when I was about 6.

  • @Hotshotter3000
    @Hotshotter3000 Před 7 lety +25

    So that's the origin of the 'I bought the company' jokes from all those 80s movies.

    • @Zappy4001
      @Zappy4001 Před 3 lety +1

      uhf?

    • @Hotshotter3000
      @Hotshotter3000 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Zappy4001 Yep. It also cropped up in other places, and even in some more recent media that parodies 80s cliche (Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded for example makes a passing reference to this).

    • @plymouth491
      @plymouth491 Před 3 lety

      @@Hotshotter3000Bloodhound Gang referenced it in a song, too.
      czcams.com/video/nIK-Vgju-AM/video.html

  • @dovehoward
    @dovehoward Před 7 měsíci

    My mum watched this ad and liked this guys surname so much she named her son (middle name) after it, and I named my son (middle name) after him.

  • @ThomasSellers
    @ThomasSellers Před 4 lety +1

    Victor Kiam, loved the Remington Micro Screen so much, he later bought the farm!!!

  • @TheGeezzer
    @TheGeezzer Před 2 lety +2

    R.I.P Victor Kermit Kiam II. Died aged 74
    (December 7, 1926 - May 27, 2001) 🌼

  • @dennisneo1608
    @dennisneo1608 Před 6 lety +1

    This guy was a celebrity in Australia in the early 80s.

  • @alessandrodovidio6833
    @alessandrodovidio6833 Před 5 lety +10

    He was a truly remarkable entrepreneur of the old kind - the kind they simply don't make any more.

    • @MakingPlanetsMusic
      @MakingPlanetsMusic Před 2 lety +1

      love admiring capital hoarders who steal surplus value from workers

    • @dcarbs2979
      @dcarbs2979 Před 2 lety +1

      @@MakingPlanetsMusic How is it stealing? The employees agree to sell their time. The company is supposed to make more from them than the employee, otherwise there is no company to give them a job!

  • @DavidRinkevich
    @DavidRinkevich Před 7 měsíci

    Spatula city brought me here.

  • @rf11404
    @rf11404 Před 5 lety +21

    Somewhere Victor Kiam is rolling in his grave about the new Gillette ad.

    • @mainhattan6038
      @mainhattan6038 Před 2 lety

      Was hat Remington mit Gillette zu tun? Macht Gillette jetzt die alte Werbung nach?

    • @rf11404
      @rf11404 Před 2 lety +2

      @@mainhattan6038 Gillette put out an advertisement that trashed men. I just wanted at the point it came out to remember what a real razor ad was all about and the Remington ads do that.

    • @nardpuncher
      @nardpuncher Před rokem

      No, boomer. stfu

  • @davidshillito
    @davidshillito Před 4 lety +3

    Interesting that this footage was created to run for the UK market (20 'POUNDS') The practice of cutting the same ad footage {at least} twice using different native currencies proves Victor and/or his agency were on the ball in the 70's

    • @robertomoi2044
      @robertomoi2044 Před 4 lety

      In UK hes commonly known as a money grabbing *****

    • @davidshillito
      @davidshillito Před 4 lety +2

      @@robertomoi2044 ~ "commonly known" by whom? I'm in the UK & even Non marketing-savvy pensioners don't know him as any such thing

  • @dontcomply3976
    @dontcomply3976 Před 2 lety +4

    I hated Twitter so much I bought the company - Elon Musk 2022

  • @edmund184
    @edmund184 Před rokem +1

    I wonder how many people actually got their money back?

  • @Xurreal
    @Xurreal Před 4 lety +1

    God. You know those things you wish you could forget, and then you do, and then years later you get a reminder of that?
    Fraking Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged!

  • @lakeviewviking
    @lakeviewviking Před 6 lety

    New Orleans boy!

  • @SnowDaulphin
    @SnowDaulphin Před rokem

    I’m not hiding anything!

  • @nicholasmanzoni1371
    @nicholasmanzoni1371 Před 4 lety

    Do you know where I can find replacement blades for Remington Lektro Blade 4

  • @aphex14
    @aphex14 Před měsícem

    Am i missing the connection to Aphex Twin??? Please someone link the answer.

  • @zhang2003
    @zhang2003 Před 3 lety

    The Chase brought me here

  • @johntate5050
    @johntate5050 Před rokem +1

    £20 in 1979 is £83 in 2022.

  • @jeremyanderson1139
    @jeremyanderson1139 Před rokem

    Kiam bought the Patriots solely for the prestige of owning an NFL franchise. Unlike Remington Razors, Kiam had no idea what he was doing when it came to owning the New England Patriots. He sold the team to St. Louis businessman James Orthwein in 1992, who bought the team solely to move it to St. Louis (they would've been renamed the St. Louis Stallions). Robert Kraft wouldn't let Orthwein out of the team's lease with Foxboro Stadium, so Kraft bought the team in 1994

  • @thewildmonkey3923
    @thewildmonkey3923 Před 3 lety

    Here from the dynasty

  • @undertow1985
    @undertow1985 Před 2 lety

    UHF brought me here.

  • @musclehamster4120
    @musclehamster4120 Před 3 lety

    Anyone else here after reading The Dynasty?

  • @FrostbiteUK
    @FrostbiteUK Před 7 lety +4

    My wife bought me an Apple iPad, I liked it so much, I bought the comp.............oh wait... :-D

    • @Peter-J-Thomson
      @Peter-J-Thomson  Před 7 lety +2

      That's exactly the point. If you'd bought stock in Apple on the day the first iPad came out. How would your investment be doing today?

    • @FrostbiteUK
      @FrostbiteUK Před 7 lety +1

      I know, thanks for uploading this. I remember his adverts on British TV in the early 80's, Victor became a household name overnight and so did his catchphrase.

    • @agfagaevart
      @agfagaevart Před 7 lety

      to think that, they wanted to use kevin keegan in the adverts :-/

  • @BazNard
    @BazNard Před 3 lety

    Is that Bill Simpson? WBS? WTF!

  • @robertlindo8058
    @robertlindo8058 Před 3 lety

    if you found a shaver that cut as close as blade it would rip your skin off

    • @8BitNaptime
      @8BitNaptime Před 2 lety

      Well I know they don't work in guillotines.

  • @thegrimyeaper
    @thegrimyeaper Před 7 lety +3

    SPATULA CITY!

  • @toastehh09
    @toastehh09 Před rokem

    The company cost me considerably more (:

  • @thecorbeauxking7342
    @thecorbeauxking7342 Před 3 lety

    Microsoft after seeing Fallout 76's performance on Game Pass

  • @sashasidi95
    @sashasidi95 Před 4 lety

    AFX :)

  • @joshuaclemons9039
    @joshuaclemons9039 Před 2 lety

    Victor kiam patriots owner

  • @robertomoi2044
    @robertomoi2044 Před 4 lety +1

    The guys only 55 there. Looks 80. People look so much younger today than back then.

    • @DellaStreet123
      @DellaStreet123 Před 3 lety +1

      Not really. Middle-aged people dress differently, they groom themselves differently, and dying one's hair also makes a difference. Only at first glance, though. I don't see any problem with being young at heart, dressing casually, etc. -- But what scares me is that our culture seems to be addicted to anti-aging. Which isn't even a thing. Once you're born, you're aging. In a way, your dying process has already begun. Healthy habits help with aging gracefully, but you have to accept the reality of death. It's never been optional, nobody has ever been forgotten yet, not even Jeanne Calment, the oldest person whose age could be verified.

    • @The-Clockwork-Eye
      @The-Clockwork-Eye Před rokem

      Behave.

  • @thunderlightning1980
    @thunderlightning1980 Před 9 měsíci

    When he bought the Patriots, fans got their money back after those horrid games

  • @NachosElectric
    @NachosElectric Před 2 lety

    "The Remington M3 will cost you about twenty pounds..." Twenty pounds of what? Cabbages?

  • @tompchromedome
    @tompchromedome Před 2 měsíci

    I had a PG 6020, made in chynaaaa and they are fucking rubbish. Remington in Oz replaced it because the battery lasted about 30 seconds, the replacement was no better. I replaced the battery following many youtube videos, but now the 240v charger HK28A-3.6 -100 has come apart while I was removing it from the powerpoint exposing the internal electrical components luckily it was switched off at the plug.
    clearly this mob has gone downhill since Victor Kiam was running the show.
    It is now a part of an international conglomerate who no longer give a toss about their customers.

  • @rovercoupe7104
    @rovercoupe7104 Před 2 lety

    They used to be great shavers, now they are disappointing. M.

  • @adelineriehl2401
    @adelineriehl2401 Před 7 lety

    Ft