Philips S5466/17

dont bother – Shaver was actually really good, but with only light use it has only lasted 4 months as the motor has decided to stop working. Always had Philips shavers in the past but now i wouldn't touch one with a bargepole. Not cheap but rubbish. If i can only convince one of you not to buy this junk the review would have been worth it. Show details

Dreadful waste of time & money – Very happy with succession of Philips shavers over 45 years, but not the actual succession, only necessitated by Philips replacement heads being such a rip-off you are compelled to buy a new shaver for less. Until this horror story, that is. Should have spent more time examining it, and stuck with the conventional, simple models. Where to… Read more

begin...? 1. The 90-day money back satisfaction guaranteed blurb was worthless when I neglected to unwrap it for some months. 2. Can’t remember what exactly now, but some trivial aspect of use was not explained in the awful ‘user guide’ paper slip, requiring a call to Philips before I could use it. At least it was promptly explained, but why not in the guide? 3. The guide is laughably poor. A series of ‘international’ images - eg man holding shaver, man holding shaver to face, etc. Puerile and utterly uninformative, and useless. Why do they bother? 4. It’s so slim you can’t hold it as you would any other, with a thumb tucked around; you’re obliged to hold with fingertips, giving poor control. Unbelievable. 5. The power switch is located where a right-handed man naturally holds his thumb (sic - thumbtip) causing a constant on-off ... lift shaver from face ... ON-off ... lift shaver from face ...ONNN!-off ... You get the picture. Mindlessly bad design. 6. The trimmer is separate! What? Worse still, there’s no obvious key to head alignment. You have to squint, then fiddle and twiddle to get a head on. Appalling. 7. But wait, there’s more. Head-cleaning is a nightmare. The hinged cage retaining the rotors is easily accidentally dislodged, spilling rotors everywhere. It is NOT easily re-attached. Nor are the rotors easily re-inserted in the cage, in any event. Atrocious.

Compared to past experience this model’s poor design instils the view Philips shavers have turned to faecal matter. Avoid like the plague. I couldn't bring myself to donate it to an enemy. It's binned.

Top shaver and value – After using Panasonic, Braun and Remington I have had-all of them fail in different ways bit sad. So went out looking price of some shavers we’re round $400 so I decided to purchase the Philips 5000 for $120 was very surprised at its performance very clean shave and half the time to do it. I’m very happy with this shaver well done on this model, price and performance Show details ·  2