Where can you buy Coates shaving cream?
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Where can you buy Coates shaving cream?
Hello,
I am currently working with a distributor to get Coates back on shelves, but need your help. Can you answer the following questions for me?
Where did you used to buy Coates shaving cream from?
Where would you like to buy Coates shaving cream when available?
Thank you, Robert
I am currently working with a distributor to get Coates back on shelves, but need your help. Can you answer the following questions for me?
Where did you used to buy Coates shaving cream from?
Where would you like to buy Coates shaving cream when available?
Thank you, Robert
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Robert...I have one pot of Coates sandalwood that I picked up from Paul over at Connaught. I THINK it was the last one he had, but may be wrong about that.
Vendors I would buy more from include Paul, Phil at BullGoose and West Coast Shaving.
Vendors I would buy more from include Paul, Phil at BullGoose and West Coast Shaving.
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+1 to everything stated above. Currently, I have a pot of Almond and Sandalwood purchased from Connaught and a pot of Lime from Grooming Health. It would be nice to be able to get it domestically (which for me means a vendor in the US).Gene wrote:Vendors I would buy more from include Paul, Phil at BullGoose and West Coast Shaving.
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I would be more prone to buy it from a US vendor due to shipping costs. Of these I tend to shop from QED and Vintage Blades. However, if the total cost differential would not be too great, I would get it from you.
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Robert, my first choice would be http://www.shoeboxshaveshop.com
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Robert,
There are any number of vendors I'd be happy to buy from, but I am doing most of my business with Phil at BullGoose these days. (I see that he's already set up with Salter, too, so that may streamline things a bit, assuming he's game.)
I'm mostly a soaps man, but I would make a point of purchasing Coates cream -- especially the Sandalwood, though I'd make a point of acquiring each as it was reissued.
Best of luck!
Regards,
Doug
There are any number of vendors I'd be happy to buy from, but I am doing most of my business with Phil at BullGoose these days. (I see that he's already set up with Salter, too, so that may streamline things a bit, assuming he's game.)
I'm mostly a soaps man, but I would make a point of purchasing Coates cream -- especially the Sandalwood, though I'd make a point of acquiring each as it was reissued.
Best of luck!
Regards,
Doug
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Yes, I would buy it, assuming it is the old formula. Rose, Limes and Sandalwood and maybe Lavendar (I am liking the Truefitt smell a lot). As others have said, a US vendor would be preferable because you would avoid shipping fees that make it so that you really need a bigger order from say a UK-based vendor to make it worthwhile. If it was available from say Bullgoose, it might be more palatable to just order the one tub of Coates when you ran out rather than have to consciously decide to wait until you order two or three things due to shipping charges.
My last pots of Coates were from trades and/or people selling it on the forum. The only tubes I had bought were early on, say 8, 9 years ago (Gordon can help me out, it was when Wetshavers was ending up) and it was some seller like Cambridge Chemists
My last pots of Coates were from trades and/or people selling it on the forum. The only tubes I had bought were early on, say 8, 9 years ago (Gordon can help me out, it was when Wetshavers was ending up) and it was some seller like Cambridge Chemists
Robert,
Never had pleasure of trying Coate but I would buy from these gentlemen if they carried them:
Paul at Connaught Shaving
Gary at shoeboxshaveshop
Never had pleasure of trying Coate but I would buy from these gentlemen if they carried them:
Paul at Connaught Shaving
Gary at shoeboxshaveshop
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The crucible for north american sales will be a distributor who doesn't think a Kent brush should cost more than one ordered from the UK. I do understand that effort has reduced prices recently
Robert, what initial sales figures do you need to impress the bean counters? And to this question I might propose some manner of group buy or comittment to show we aren't blowing bubbles.
Robert, what initial sales figures do you need to impress the bean counters? And to this question I might propose some manner of group buy or comittment to show we aren't blowing bubbles.
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Robert, Well, I bought most of the Coate's I've used at shops in NYC on trips there; Pasteur's, Cambridge Chemists, etc. I have also mail ordered it on occasion, from Enchante and I think elsewhere ( this was all awhile ago ). Toward the end, of course, I was hustling to buy it from forum members who had managed to score some wherever they could.
Well, it's a specialty item so, realistically, I don't expect it to be that readily available although there was a time when I could get it locally at both Saks and Brooks Brothers. So, even if it reappeared at some of the old haunts in NYC and on a few online specialty vendors that would be all I could reasonably hope for.
Regards,
Gordon
Well, it's a specialty item so, realistically, I don't expect it to be that readily available although there was a time when I could get it locally at both Saks and Brooks Brothers. So, even if it reappeared at some of the old haunts in NYC and on a few online specialty vendors that would be all I could reasonably hope for.
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Gordon
Robert, I would buy Coate's again if the product was as good, or preferably, better than its competitors (T&H, Trumper's et al).
I used to buy my Coate's from SMF, The Shaving Shack and from Maitland's of Picadilly. Since the latter clearly isn't feasable these days, I would look to buy online either from yourself or The Shaving Shack.
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I used to buy my Coate's from SMF, The Shaving Shack and from Maitland's of Picadilly. Since the latter clearly isn't feasable these days, I would look to buy online either from yourself or The Shaving Shack.
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yeah, but this same guy really raised the price of coates when it got to be in short supply and used to really jack up the shipping also. depends what you think, but i always felt he was taking advantage of the situation of there being a distinct lack of supply.Ebay seller Johnnyrainbow1. I can't remember the name of his storefront but I bought a ton of Coate's Tubes, couple pots and some Trumpers pots as well. He always had quick shipping from UK to Canada.
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