While looking for Christmas gifts, today, I saw a jug of Weems & Plath
"liquid paraffin" lamp oil for the fakey Chinese lamps they sell at
amazing profits. It had been marked down from $129.95 to $108.95,
just in time for Christmas!

I started looking around the display, as if looking for something, and
when one of the nasty salesailors came over to enquire what I was
looking for I said, "Where's the drum?" That threw him, "What do you
mean, drum?" "For over $100 for some fuel oil doesn't it come in a
55-gallon drum?", I asked, innocently.

You just KNOW there's some idiots handing over $109 for a quart of
GENUINE Weems & Plath fuel oil to go in their cheap Chinese lamps,
don'tcha? I used to think the reason people with money had money was
because they were really smart. Waste Marine sure blew that theory
all to hell. They got a 10' plastic dingy out front for $1000!
"Wanna buy some oars to go with that, sir?"

(Aflack duck goes running out of store like he does Yogi Berra's
barber shop, violently shaking his head and making funny noises.)


Larry W4CSC

NNNN

Larry,

That can't be right. Lamp oil at our WM locally is $10.99 retail.
A 2.5 Gallon jug is 32.99. Alot less via Port Supply. And if course
quite a bit less via other outlets. It must have been a marked
incorrectly. The price seems about right for the lamps themselves
though.

Doug, k3qt
s/v Callista

"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...
While looking for Christmas gifts, today, I saw a jug of Weems & Plath
"liquid paraffin" lamp oil for the fakey Chinese lamps they sell at
amazing profits. It had been marked down from $129.95 to $108.95,
just in time for Christmas!

I started looking around the display, as if looking for something, and
when one of the nasty salesailors came over to enquire what I was
looking for I said, "Where's the drum?" That threw him, "What do you
mean, drum?" "For over $100 for some fuel oil doesn't it come in a
55-gallon drum?", I asked, innocently.

You just KNOW there's some idiots handing over $109 for a quart of
GENUINE Weems & Plath fuel oil to go in their cheap Chinese lamps,
don'tcha? I used to think the reason people with money had money was
because they were really smart. Waste Marine sure blew that theory
all to hell. They got a 10' plastic dingy out front for $1000!
"Wanna buy some oars to go with that, sir?"

(Aflack duck goes running out of store like he does Yogi Berra's
barber shop, violently shaking his head and making funny noises.)


Larry W4CSC

NNNN

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:33:42 -0500, "doug dotson"
wrote:

Larry,

That can't be right. Lamp oil at our WM locally is $10.99 retail.
A 2.5 Gallon jug is 32.99. Alot less via Port Supply. And if course
quite a bit less via other outlets. It must have been a marked
incorrectly. The price seems about right for the lamps themselves
though.

Doug, k3qt
s/v Callista

Not only was that marked on the original sales tag, but it was also
marked on the red sale tag. None of them seemed to notice (or care,
of course). It was a pre-printed Waste Marine tag, right off the
computer....(c;


Larry W4CSC

NNNN

Larry, are they "selling" any?
--
c ya Wim
www.cruising.ca/thousand/f-index.html


"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...
: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:33:42 -0500, "doug dotson"
: wrote:
:
: Larry,
:
: That can't be right. Lamp oil at our WM locally is $10.99 retail.
: A 2.5 Gallon jug is 32.99. Alot less via Port Supply. And if course
: quite a bit less via other outlets. It must have been a marked
: incorrectly. The price seems about right for the lamps themselves
: though.
:
: Doug, k3qt
: s/v Callista
:
: Not only was that marked on the original sales tag, but it was also
: marked on the red sale tag. None of them seemed to notice (or care,
: of course). It was a pre-printed Waste Marine tag, right off the
: computer....(c;
:
:
: Larry W4CSC
:
: NNNN
:

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:19:56 -0500, "Wim" wrote:

Larry, are they "selling" any?
--
c ya Wim
www.cruising.ca/thousand/f-index.html

Don't know. There was only one bottle left, though!


Larry W4CSC

NNNN

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:19:56 -0500, "Wim" wrote:

Larry, are they "selling" any?
--
c ya Wim
www.cruising.ca/thousand/f-index.html

Don't know. There was only one bottle left, though!


Larry W4CSC

NNNN

It had to be a mistake. I'll pop into my loac WM and check it out.
If it was a computer generated tag I'd bet that the entire chain is
wrong.

Doug
s/v Callista

"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:33:42 -0500, "doug dotson"
wrote:

Larry,

That can't be right. Lamp oil at our WM locally is $10.99 retail.
A 2.5 Gallon jug is 32.99. Alot less via Port Supply. And if course
quite a bit less via other outlets. It must have been a marked
incorrectly. The price seems about right for the lamps themselves
though.

Doug, k3qt
s/v Callista

Not only was that marked on the original sales tag, but it was also
marked on the red sale tag. None of them seemed to notice (or care,
of course). It was a pre-printed Waste Marine tag, right off the
computer....(c;


Larry W4CSC

NNNN

doug dotson wrote:
It had to be a mistake. I'll pop into my loac WM and check it out.
If it was a computer generated tag I'd bet that the entire chain is
wrong.


$19.99 on the web site...
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...oductId=124429

Cindy Ballreich wrote:
doug dotson wrote:

It had to be a mistake. I'll pop into my loac WM and check it out.
If it was a computer generated tag I'd bet that the entire chain is
wrong.


$19.99 on the web site...
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...oductId=124429

I can't imagine what could in the stuff WM sells that would make it
worth that much...'cuz a quart of lamp oil at my friendly neighborhood
hardware store is $3.29/quart. Prob'ly even cheaper at Home Depot.

Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html

I notice on that link, there is an opportunity for someone to submit a
review of this product.. It presently show "0" reviews..

Do you suppose that they would post a negative review regarding the price??

Steve
s/v Good Intentions