You want me to put some energy into it?
Why not?
Full energy, please.
So we're minutes away from opening up this thing, are we not?
And SnapFX is looking pretty good.
Nearly ready to go?
Are you expecting to sell out?
Are you excited?
Yeah, I am excited. It's always nerve.
It looks, I can tell you, is palpable coming from you.
This is me. Excited.
You know, you've known me long enough where?
You know, this is my full excitement.
Yeah. To be fair, this is about as excited as I get.
So, yeah, the really high energy for the people out of there.
But you guys have been working on this a long time now.
Yeah.
This is four years in the making, and it's funny, because
I come from a carpentry industry.
I used to be a carpenter,
as you probably know, and this is a system that's used in professional power tools.
So they use brushless motors, which are the best motors, in my opinion.
Also, they use detachable batteries.
So we've been working on this a long time.
Barbers deserve it.
It's funny because we we used to launch a tool and we'd say it's
got 2 hours of run time.
And people would say, Well, I want three or four.
And then another tool would launch and it have three or four.
And then people say, I want five or six.
What do you people want?
Yes. Well, now it's, it's, it's,
it's unlimited.
So you can, you can run these things cordless as long as you want.
We made them easy to clean Can I walk you over here real quick?
Is that all right? Yeah, sure.
So. So the Clipper is the first.
Now, they have had detachable battery units for detachable blade clippers
because you need the additional batteries to be able to power
the stronger force spring force on the Clippers.
This is the first detachable battery system that uses a taper control
on a clipper.
Also a dual battery system where you can charge
two batteries at the same time or you can quick charge one.
This is the first trimmer that's ever been
come to market with a detachable battery system.
So not only that, but we were also thinking about
why do barbers it was funny because we had we had been getting complaints
from some stylists and some junior level Barbers.
That when they'd go to take the blade off the unit, they were having difficulty
getting it back on because of the sping force.
And so we're sitting there with the engineer and we just said, well,
why do they have to remove the blade to clean it?
That makes absolutely no sense.
And so the magnetic removable hair pocket door came to life
as a solution for barbers.
But all we're trying to do is solve problems.
And as you heard me say last night, I feel that there's a team of people
and I'm just a conduit between what you tell me what
the barbers tell me and what product you see laid in front of you.
And that's all we're trying to do, is just make product for barbers
and trying to listen intently.
And, you know, I hope people like it honestly.
I think it will be a I think it will be a success.
I really do. I think it's a very good idea.
And it's quite weird that nobody has thought to sort of link power tools
and what we do already at least in a marketing way,
make everybody feel a bit more manly, you know?
Yeah.
Some people probably walk like techno
technology, trade shows to get inspiration I'm not going to say
where I go for my inspiration, but it's it's definitely
power tools.
I like power tools.
There we go.
I like that Just got to keep a little bit for yourself.
Yeah. So. And what do you guys think?
I'm really excited to get my hands on it and use it.
I'll be perfectly honest.
I really like the look of I love the concept of it.
And but, you know,
I can't wait to give you a hard time when it doesn't perform the way I want it to.
Well, you know, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
I'm really looking. Forward to it.
We'll send you a check.
One of the other things that we did with this is,
you know, we didn't
forget about some of the other upgrades that you've been seeing to our tools,
like what you would see in the Boost+ models
have the stronger motors and more powerful motors, the faster motors.
These also have those upgrades in them as well.
So they have the stronger motors and they have the DLC, the fade
blade on the on the Clipper, the deep tooth DLC blade on this. And
wait to you see what we have coming next.
Well, that's us back now.
But this is not going to be the review.
The review is coming for the SnapFX now that we've had them for a little bit.
But when we did post up about these rather than people talking about
the performance, everybody wanted to talk about the price of the SnapFX.
So the review is coming because of course, performance is key.
But first of all, we need to talk about why is it so expensive
So no messing about. Let's just get into it.
The price of the Clippers and of the trimmers So the clippers
come in at $379.99
and the trimmer comes in at $299.
Now that is expensive.
In fact, I think the price of the trimmer alone is
more than you would pay for two FX trimmers on their own separately.
So there is a considerable jump up at this point in the price of these items.
So let's start running through all the key features of these
in order to try and see where that price increase comes from.
Now you've got with the clipper you've got this really nice charging
stand here and you've also got a really nice colorway
on it as well, fairly similar to the one we get in the UK.
And you also have the same motor as the Boost+
all the other Boost specs that you've had with the current Babyliss upgrade.
But the big selling point with these clippers here
is what they are calling infinite lifespan, infinite charging
they're never supposed to be out of battery
because as soon as one battery dies, you take that out,
you put the next battery in
and you put the one that's just ran out in the charging stand.
So that's always charging while this is working.
Therefore, you don't need to have two clippers anymore.
You don't need to have to have anything. You can just have one.
You also have all the same features on the trimmer as well.
Plus both have this little magnetic lid here that comes off
and allows you to clean out the clipper and the internals in there
without having to take the blade off.
Because certainly from experience in here and other people we've spoken
to as well, that a little bit in there with spring loaded on the old clippers.
So when you would take the blade off to clean it,
a lot of people would lose that spring
and wouldn't be able to get the blade back on.
So that's another handy little feature.
Another thing I've noticed with them as well
is that both clipper and Trimmer are fractionally longer
each in order to allow for those batteries, I imagine.
But having used both of them extensively now,
I don't really think you're going to notice that much now, Babyliss
have been calling this infinite charging, and I think that is accurate to a point
because certainly in the shop where you've got both your batteries
and you've got your charging stand, that could be infinite battery for you all day.
But if you make a lot of house calls, you got to take these on the road with you.
You got to travel
and that's an awfully big charging stand to be carrying around very bulky.
And if you don't have that with you and say you haven't charged one
or both of these batteries, there's no charging port on them.
So you go from infinite power to a very finite amount of power.
And that goes the same with the trimmer as well.
Now, I know Babyliss have been thinking about this,
and that's why there are going to be some higher capacity batteries coming out.
These ones currently have a blue light on them.
When you charge them up,
the higher capacity ones, they're going to have a green light on them as well.
You also will be able to buy more than two batteries.
So if you want to have 40 batteries
to be on the safe side, you'll be able to get them.
And also as well on the charging stand, you could have two batteries
charging in here while you have a third battery sitting in the clipper itself.
So there is more capacity for more power by
I think calling it infinite power
doesn't cover the entire thing right now.
Something else that came in the box that might be justifying
that price point as well is that you get the new Babyliss
premium guards with them as well.
You get the full range as well,
not like some other brands where you may be able to get a couple
of the premium guards, you get the full range of premium guards
with these, and they've also color coded them as well.
So they match up with the color way on the SnapFX.
So something else to consider there when looking at the price.
Another nice feature with these is that both charging stands can take up
quite a bit room on your trolley at wherever you work,
but with the charging stand, you can actually charge the trimmer
batteries in the clipper stands.
So therefore you take out one full charging
stand, you only need the one instead of two.
So that's a what a key features in here.
But do all of those features justify the price,
I don't know man, like when this clipper came out?
A lot of people are saying that certainly in the comments that we've got anyway,
they're saying it's just the price doesn't justify it just being
a rehashing of the FX clipper. But
I don't know if necessarily
is a rehashing because the clipper has been out for a while.
You can't just simply
bring out the same thing all the time and not put any upgrades in.
Can't put any of the new technology in it.
You know,
you've got three different versions of this clipper
at three different price points.
Now you have the regular FX you have the Boost+
now you have the sSnapFX as well.
So there's three different price points to come in at depending
on which ones you can afford.
There's also people saying like Oh, it should have been thinner
or it could have been lighter, or it's you know, there's a whole bunch of things
about the actual physicality of this clipper that people are saying
that maybe if that's how you feel something
like the Lithium FX or the FX3 or even the LoPRO FX
three completely different clippers that Babyliss have released in
the last little while would be covering what you're looking for
that you didn't get with this one, basically now Babyliss
have an entire portfolio of clippers whereas they only had maybe one or two.
And so there's
just a lot of different options here and now some of them are going to be more
expensive than others.
So if you find this one a bit too expensive,
it maybe doesn't have to be the one you go for right now because Babyliss
do have other options within their range.
Now, obviously, we've spoken to Dennis from Babyliss about all of this,
and we've had a conversation and one thing that came up were
the sort of the marginal gains, if you will, the different things
that reduce your margins when you're trying to make a profit
with something like this.
Now, it would have been much easier and much cheaper
to make this in a much shinier finish.
It would have been much cheaper and easier to give you one battery instead of two.
And it would have been much cheaper
and much easier to stick a DC motor in this instead of a brushless motor.
But they didn't want to do that.
They wanted to make something that not only was innovative with the battery,
but you wanted to make a quality product that goes with that.
So do you try and scrimp and save on something
and make it less impressive than it could be?
Or do you try and spend a little bit extra
and cut your own margins down to make a quality item for the market?
So I guess the real question is
at $299 for the trimmer
and $379.99
for the clipper, is it too expensive?
Well,
that really just depends on you, doesn't it?
You know, because you might have enough money that dropping that much
on a set of clippers and trimmers isn't that big a deal.
That might be well out with your price range.
It really is a personal choice.
And also remember you don't have to buy it.
This is just simply another option
that has come out and it's also an innovation as well.
And we all want innovation.
We all want longer lasting things that are better bell
that are higher quality and all that stuff.
But those innovations don't come cheap.
And if you don't want those innovations or you aren't willing
to spend on those innovations, then that's OK as well.
There are other options out there for you.
So I guess it really is just up to you whether you do want to spend the money.
I've told you about all the things that come with this clipper and this trimmer.
It's now really up to you whether you think
you would spend that kind of money on it or not.
And as I've had this channel, we've had this channel for a while.
I know you are going to have your opinions as well.
So let us know in the comments section below.
Is it too much money?
Can you be bothered spending that or are you super excited about this
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