Why Is Motorcycle Oil So Expensive?

[nobbie48]

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Given past history I wouldn't waste a call to them. I called them last year about trying to price match a pair of $750 boots and it was a 20min waste of time just to hear them say no. Saved $150 and bought elsewhere. Actually they lost two sales of those boots as my riding buddy liked mine so much he bought a pair as well.

I overheard a buyer for a major electrical contractor hang up after telling a distributor "Name something you sell that I can't buy from someone else."

 

[nobbie48]

Its like every thing else, GREED. Simple GREED. The world has gone crazy, retailers / manufactures charge what they want, most everything has increased in cost 100%. did u get a 100% raise ? Did fuel costs increase 100% ? ETC....simple GREED. Rant over

It's the law of the stock market. Publicly traded companies in particular need more profit every year. The need more, MORE, MORE.

If they don't get it their share values drop.

Watch Dragon's Den or Shark Tank. The panel consists of money makers not innovators. They don't create jobs they just move them around to make wealth. It's a parasitic relationship. If the parasite is too hungry it destroys the host. If it isn't hungry enough it never matures.

Big companies rule the world and we let them do it by purchasing their wares. It's not all bad in that things tend to work better and last longer than a half century ago. My TV dates back to 2009 and still works fine. I could get a bigger new one for fewer dollars than I paid in 2009.

Anyone remember watching an old CRT set in total darkness because the main tube was burning out and any light in the room overpowered the projected image.

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