Re: Brand of oil to use?

Posted by NCWayne on June 24, 2007 at 16:31:06 from (166.82.164.156):

In Reply to: Re: Brand of oil to use? posted by Bill(Wis) on June 24, 2007 at 12:02:05:

There is a federal law on the books that protects the consumer from rip offs like this. I can't remember the number or the exact wording but the gist is this. If a MFG requires you to use a specific product, such as oil or filters, in order to maintain/honor their warranty they are required, by law, to supply you with that product free of charge. This, I'm told, is designed to keep them from monopolizing the sale of a product when there are others out there, that are readily available, that meet or exceed the same specs. In other words if they require you to use their oil, filters, etc to maintain the warranty on a machine this gives them a monopoly over the sale of those products. That monopoly allowes them to price gouge the consumer by asking higher prices for a product sold only by them when a similar or better product is or may be available elsewhere for a lesser price. Now wether the avarage consumer is able to make something like this stick should a problem occur is a different story since most tend to go with the flow and just spend the extra money so as to not get things stirred up. Til consumers really start banding together and standing up for themselves against the big mfgs their gonna keep buying overpriced products and getting gouged. But that's just my .02

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• Re: Brand of oil to use? Bill(Wis) 17:32:48 06/25/07 (0)

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