I bought five quarts of Castrol GTX 0 W 20 on Amazon for $18.31 on July 16. Today’s price is $29.68. That’s quite a swing, and I encourage people to shop carefully. I wish I had purchased (far) more than two containers!
Crazy oil price swing
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Patman
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Even at $18.31 it makes no sense to pay that amount for a conventional oil when you can buy synthetic for the same price. Or is this the new GTX synthetic that you are talking about?
Castrol makes a GTX Full Synthetic as well as Dino and blended oils... https://www.castrol.com/en_us/unite...trol-gtx-oils/castrol-gtx-full-synthetic.html
Bill
Bill
July 16-17 were Prime Days. There were several deals from Castrol those days.
https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/castrol-5w30-prime-day-deal-17-5qt-with-sub-save.385173/
https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/castrol-5w30-prime-day-deal-17-5qt-with-sub-save.385173/
After seeing it on Slickdeals during Prime days grabbed 3 jugs of Castrol GTX FS 0w20 at the S&S pricing and noticed yesterday price had substantially increased. I'll cancel the S&S after before next delivery. Not really too surprised at the price increase. Seen it before on other items, Amazon algorithm pricing at work. I never count on a price holding, especially if it's a low one relative to other sources.
Some of still like conventional for our own reasons. I still run it in my Xterra. You can see how the engine looks in my footer.
I would have bought some for $18.31 but I am no longer a prime member.
It is the synthetic. Sorry about that!
4WD
$50 site donor 2025
Think I’m down to one jug SN+ in me ole stash …
Then I’m all up to date with my other (bargain) stash …
Amazon frequently has great deals on oil. Those deals do not last, which is why I have a bit of a stash.
E.G. Pennzoil Ultra Platinum 5W30 for $21/jug.
Currently showing $29. I’ve seen it as high as $39.
E.G. Pennzoil Ultra Platinum 5W30 for $21/jug.
Currently showing $29. I’ve seen it as high as $39.
Yep, buy on sale and it is really nice to have a jug on the shelf when ya need one.
I keep 0w20 and 5w30, mostly in M1 and QS. Regular and HM. And the occasional Kirkland...
Filters for Honda and Toyota.
I keep 0w20 and 5w30, mostly in M1 and QS. Regular and HM. And the occasional Kirkland...
Filters for Honda and Toyota.
I find it simpler and cheaper to only buy Walmart's SuperTech High Mileage Full Syntetic 5 quart jugs @ $18.64 a jug and then get 5% cash back with the Walmart credit card so total cost is only $17.71 + tax. I like it's additive package with generous levels of phosphorous and zinc (anti-wear) additives, and Calcium (detergent). Also it's Dexos 1 Gen 3 approved, so really protects against sludge / varnish/depost formation. It's my strategic long term oil choice.
Gas went up .40 cents a gallon a little over a week ago and now is down .25 cents.
Triple_Se7en
$50 Site Donor 2024
What swings more than Amazon's oil prices is Amazon's profits. They are either swimming in money one Quarter and find themselves in the Red for the next Quarter. Another problem they have are Vendors / Wholesalers that keep changing the prices on their products. So they adjust prices constantly to maintain ''paying all the bills on time"
Sometimes I leave items in My Cart for weeks. I see price changes to my product 2-3 times in a matter of a couple weeks. One time the price goes up - then next time it goes down.
The bigger juggernaut Amazon has right now is trying to open their Amazon Grocery Stores within four years of being built. The one near me has been finished for two years now and it's never opened it's doors yet.
AWS contributes most of Amazon's operating income. As AI becomes more prevalent, that number will rise.
Software for the win!
Software for the win!
AWS makes all the profit but a lot of that is on paper. Amazon "charges" it's various entities for their use of AWS, thereby funneling their other profits into AWS. If group "A" makes a billion in profit, but pays 1.5 billion to AWS (possibly including international AWS orgs), then they lost a half billion on paper and Amazon gets to offshore some of that money and probably avoids paying some taxes.
Don’t quite think that’s how accounting works. Then again, not exactly following your explanation.
You have to shop and compare when buying from Amazon. Sometimes they are cheaper and sometimes they are not.
