XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: ron@null.invalid   
      
   On May 01, 2023, Cindy Hamilton wrote   
   (in article):   
      
   > Better and cheaper rarely travel together.   
      
   When it comes to working on your own vehicle, they do.   
      
   > Why should I buy Kraft   
   > Parmesan cheese when Parmagiano-Reggiano is available?   
      
   Oil is a commodity fluid, much like whole milk certainly is.   
   Which whole milk do you buy?   
   What's the difference between the other whole milks out the there?   
      
   >> People like you are think there is only one quality metric. Price   
   >> They buy by price BECAUSE they don't understand what it is they're buying.   
   >   
   > My husband is a retired engineer, in the 99th percentile of mechanical   
   > aptitude.  He certainly understands what he's buying.  He is so   
   > rarely wrong, I've just gotten into the habit of trusting him, no   
   > matter how outlandish his proposal sounds.   
      
   If he's the one saying that the only metric of quality is price, then put   
   him here instead of you speaking for him & I'll tell him what I told you.   
      
   >> And there is nothing wrong with that.   
   >>   
   >> What's wrong is thinking that those who buy by UNDERSTANDING what they're   
   >> buying are somehow wrong. They're not. They know the product rather well.   
   >>   
   >> Ron, the humblest guy in town.   
   >   
   > No.  You're an arrogant ass.   
      
   I'd rather converse with rbowman who is actually trying to say something.   
   It's you who is arrogant. You said price is the only quality metric.   
      
   I simply told you that motor oil is a commodity - price isn't a quality   
   metric for commodities - the quality of the oil is the quality metric.   
      
   And that's stamped on every container.   
      
   You think I'm arrogant because you feel that the fact you know nothing   
   about motor oils gives you the right to tell others that they're not   
   commodities, while others here - who do know oils - don't say what you do.   
      
   People like you, who never know anything about what they're buying, always   
   deprecate others who do know what it is that they're buying.   
      
   If you ask how I know you know nothing about motor oils, it's not only   
   because you haven't mentioned a single quality metric about oils, but also   
   because you equated price to quality which is always the mark of someone   
   who knows nothing about what it is that they're buying.   
      
   People who know nothing of what they're buying, are the ones who buy by   
   price because they inherently feel, instinctively, that price equates to   
   quality. It might. It might not. It usually has nothing to do with quality.   
      
   It has more to do with advertising than anything else given oil is a   
   commodity.   
      
   BTW, there's nothing wrong with you not knowing how to buy motor oils.   
   What's wrong is you telling others how they should buy motor oils.   
      
   Nobody said you can't buy by price alone and not by quality.   
   You're the one who said not to buy by quality but to buy by price.   
   --   
      
   Ron, the humblest guy in town.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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