"johnhh" wrote in
:

Larry, you seem to be hung up on the fact that they don't make it
themselves. I don't see what the issue is, private labeling is
extremely common marketing. So they by by the barrel and sell by the
quart, big deal. I have a much bigger problem with the MLM aspect of
it. It's the cultism of the MLM's that gives me the creeps.


Gives me the creeps, too. When I was young, I got sucked into Amway.
Scientology has nothing on Amway. Wanna see? Stand up in an Amway promo
meeting and ask what a pyramid scheme is...(c;

Amsoil is something "special". If it's Mobil 1, it's not. All I wanted to
know was what it was and who made it. Noone seems to have an answer. I
don't think they even let their "dealers" in on this secret....

Yamalube was a target a while ago of mine. Dealers hawk it at $30/gallon.
It turned out to be Chevron TC-W3, rebottled. Chevron is $8/gallon. Nice
markup....nothing special, though, as I suspect Amsoil isn't.

During my search for Yamalube's manufacturer, I called on the USCG oil
forensic lab in MD, where they tie the oil slick into the boat it came
from. I asked the lab guy what Yamalube acted like in his testing. He
told me the oil from different batches of the SAME manufacturer were
entirely different! This would point to my premise that oil is oil and
what you're buying comes from the "lowest bidder" for this lot, not the
manufacturer, even the oil manufacturer, on the label. His statements
reinforced my beliefs this is true. Could be anyone's oil brand in the
swamp.

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Larry