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The last vehicle I had ran amsoil its entire life, first owner drained the factory oil and used amsoil at 29 miles when he brought it home. Engine only made it to 189k miles before it spun a bearing... It was a 3.5l v6 from chrysler that was supposed to be "such a great engine!".. MAJOR PIECE OF *****!. I had the vehicle for about 2 weeks before the engine spun the bearing.. I am a FIRM believer in NOT using amsoil now! But if you insist on running it, then I would look for someone who deals it. If you feel like coming to beatrice Nebraska I know a guy that can hook you up for a decent price, but I'm sure you could find better.
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you can get dealer prices for about $20 a year. you just find a local dealer and get signed up with them. and you cant go off what big-ugly had happen to him. oil wasnt the cause of a spun bearing.
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The last vehicle I had ran amsoil its entire life, first owner drained the factory oil and used amsoil at 29 miles when he brought it home. Engine only made it to 189k miles before it spun a bearing... It was a 3.5l v6 from chrysler that was supposed to be "such a great engine!".. MAJOR PIECE OF *****!. I had the vehicle for about 2 weeks before the engine spun the bearing.. I am a FIRM believer in NOT using amsoil now! But if you insist on running it, then I would look for someone who deals it. If you feel like coming to beatrice Nebraska I know a guy that can hook you up for a decent price, but I'm sure you could find better.
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ya well, I know a guy who had a battery blow up in his face. Does that mean we should all quit using batteries? No, you had one bad experience not oil related that you blame your oil for. Doesn't mean others shouldn't use it. Especially since there's people who have run hundreds od thousand miles with no such isues
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Multi-level marketing. It drives up costs for a casual retail buyer, and encourages you to become a dealer yourself for the cost savings, plus you can try to sell it to close friends or family members to make a little money. Then you also get bonuses for signing up other dealers, and get a small percentage of the sales they make. I was considering becoming a dealer until I found out how the sales system was set up...and you can see that most of the cost comes from markup because of the number of middle-men. To me, it seems like Amsoil is a good product, but is not truly as good as its dealers claim; it's no miracle oil.
There are other products set up like this...Mona Vie comes to mind. You have to ask yourself...if this product was really this good...wouldn't it be available in every parts store? There is too much money to be made through the sales food chain to supply directly to big chain stores for a bulk discount.
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Multi-level marketing. It drives up costs for a casual retail buyer, and encourages you to become a dealer yourself for the cost savings, plus you can try to sell it to close friends or family members to make a little money. Then you also get bonuses for signing up other dealers, and get a small percentage of the sales they make. I was considering becoming a dealer until I found out how the sales system was set up...and you can see that most of the cost comes from markup because of the number of middle-men. To me, it seems like Amsoil is a good product, but is not truly as good as its dealers claim; it's no miracle oil.
There are other products set up like this...Mona Vie comes to mind. You have to ask yourself...if this product was really this good...wouldn't it be available in every parts store? There is too much money to be made through the sales food chain to supply directly to big chain stores for a bulk discount.
There are other products set up like this...Mona Vie comes to mind. You have to ask yourself...if this product was really this good...wouldn't it be available in every parts store? There is too much money to be made through the sales food chain to supply directly to big chain stores for a bulk discount.
Plenty of people make a living as "middle men" and I don't see anything wrong with it as long as in the end, the price accurately reflects the product, IMHO. Which, in this case I think it does.