20 cents is 20 cents. Would you rather they make it cheaper produce and increase the price like Castrol did to pad their bottom line more. In my local Wal-Mart Castrol Syntec is more expensive than Mobil 1, now that's a joke.quote:
Originally posted by Spector:
As quoted above somewhere
"They also LOWERED the price to reflect the change in formulation. They are not trying to fool anyone into paying for a PAO when they are only getting a Group III."
Hmm, not quite true. Hey lowered the price, TWENTY CENTS GIVE ME BREAK!!!
They still market the XLseries as a SYNTHETIC using the Castrol ploy. Not really kosher in my opinion but AJ needs that boat payment.
Another quote from above.
"I'm mean how you can you compete against a product that is much cheaper to make but still calls itself synthetic?? You tell me?"
Yes, by continuing the quality. If they had lowered the price a buck or two yes, but twenty cents, that's insulting!
Why shouldn't they be able to market the XL7500's as synthetic if everyone else can? Again, one key difference is that they had the balls to say "Hey, heads up, we reformulated it" rather than shamelessly bilk consumers. There's also a huge link on every product page that features XL7500 that refers people to the article that describes the formulation change so new customers aren't left in the dark either.