Bombay Shaving Terms 2026: Blade Plans Renew at the Full Rate

Bombay Shaving Company sells razor blades on subscription. Its terms and conditions contain a section headed RECURRING BILLING, and this is how it ends:

"Some of the Paid Offerings, such as the purchase of auto-replacing razor blades or other products, may consist of an initial period, for which there is a one-time charge, followed by recurring period charges as agreed to by you. You will have the ability to specify how regularly you would like to order any auto-replacing products. By choosing a recurring payment plan, you acknowledge that such Offerings have an initial and recurring payment feature and you accept responsibility for all recurring charges prior to cancellation. All recurring payments are fully earned upon payment."

The next section, AUTO-REPLENISHMENT FOR SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES, closes with the same construction: "All fees related to Subscription Offerings are fully earned upon payment."

And TERMINATION states it a third way: "Any fees paid hereunder are non-refundable."

"Fully earned upon payment" is a billing term, and what it means is that the money is the company's the moment it is taken — not when the blades ship, not pro-rata across the period you have paid for. This is ordinary subscription drafting and a great many subscription businesses use it. It is worth knowing because it sets the answer to the question most subscribers eventually ask: if I cancel halfway through a paid period, do I get half my money back? On the face of this document, no.

This is the sentence to read before you sign up on an introductory offer, and it is the most consequential one on the page:

"Unless you opt out of auto-replenishment, which can be done through your Account Settings, any subscription services, such as any auto-replacing products (“Subscription Offerings”), you have signed up for will be automatically extended for successive renewal periods of the same duration as the subscription term originally selected, at the then-current non-promotional rate."

Three things in one sentence. Renewal is automatic. It is opt-out, not opt-in — doing nothing renews it. And the renewal price is "the then-current non-promotional rate", which is to say the launch discount, the festive price or the first-box offer that brought you in does not carry forward.

Every part of that is lawful and common across subscription commerce, and the terms do state it plainly rather than burying it. The practical point is arithmetic: if you joined a blade plan on a promotional price, the amount that leaves your account at the next renewal is a different number from the one you agreed to, and the terms do not promise to tell you in advance what it will be. The opt-out is in Account Settings, which is where to look before the term rolls over rather than after.

The same section sets out what cancellation actually does: "You can change or resign your Subscription Service at any time. If you terminate a Subscription Service, you may use your subscription until the end of your then-current term; your subscription will not be renewed after your then-current term expires."

That is the fair reading of "fully earned upon payment" in practice. You keep what you have paid for to the end of the period, and nothing further is taken. You do not get a refund of the unused portion. "Change or resign ... at any time" is a genuinely easy cancellation right and it is better than schemes that require notice periods — compare Plum's user agreement, which asks for termination in writing by registered post.

The company's own termination right is where the asymmetry sits. "We may terminate your access to all or any part of the Offerings at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately, which may result in the forfeiture and destruction of all information associated with your membership. If you wish to terminate your Account, you may do so by following the instructions on the Site or through the Offerings. Any fees paid hereunder are non-refundable."

With or without cause. With or without notice. Effective immediately. Fees non-refundable. Termination clauses of this shape are standard in online terms and nothing here suggests the right is exercised arbitrarily; it is quoted because a reader weighing a twelve-month blade plan is entitled to know that the document permits the account to end without cause and without the money coming back.

Three more are worth quoting because they all touch what you pay.

The payment processor is not the brand's responsibility. "We use a third-party payment processor (the “Payment Processor”) to bill you through a payment account linked to your Account ... The processing of payments will be subject to the terms, conditions and privacy policies of the Payment Processor in addition to this Agreement. We are not responsible for errors by the Payment Processor." That carve-out is ordinary, and it means a double charge or a failed refund may be a conversation with two companies rather than one.

A pricing error can be corrected after you have paid. "We reserve the right to correct any errors or mistakes that it makes even if it has already requested or received payment." The wording "that it makes" is the page's own. The practical reading is the same one that applies on the marketplaces: a confirmed order at a surprising price is not a closed sale.

Liability is capped at what you have spent. "In any event the liability of bombayshavingcompany.com, for any loss or damage caused to you, whether direct or indirect, shall not exceed the amounts already paid by you to the bombayshavingcompany.com in relation to the purchase of Offerings through your Account." On a razor subscription that is a small number, and the clause is standard; Dot & Key's terms cap liability the same way.

Disputes go to one place, and the document says so twice in slightly different words: "Courts situated in Delhi, which Courts shall have the exclusive jurisdiction" and "the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts at New Delhi." If you are buying from Chennai or Kolkata, that is where a dispute would have to be taken.

Four things, all of them from the document rather than from us. First, find the auto-replenishment switch in Account Settings before you need it — that is where the terms say the opt-out lives, and renewal happens unless you use it. Second, write down what the non-promotional rate is, because that is the number that will be charged at renewal and the terms do not promise to tell you beforehand. Third, do not expect a part refund: payments are "fully earned upon payment" and cancellation lets the current term run out. Fourth, set the delivery frequency to match how fast you actually get through blades — the terms give you that control explicitly, and it is the one lever that changes what a subscription costs over a year.

None of this is a criticism of the product or of the company. Every clause quoted here is ordinary subscription drafting, stated openly in a document anyone can read, and the cancellation right is easier than several brands we read this month. The reason to read it is that a blade subscription is the one purchase on a grooming site that keeps charging you after you have stopped thinking about it.

Nothing on this page is legal advice, and nothing here says Bombay Shaving Company has breached any law, charged anyone improperly or refused any refund. This describes a published document as it stood on 10 October 2026.