Originally Posted By: TheMidnightNarwh
Originally Posted By: MotoTribologist
Originally Posted By: TheMidnightNarwh
Originally Posted By: MotoTribologist
What you are describing as "gimmicks" are just things. I'm not sure what the complaint is really about. As far as I can tell, you just don't like choices.
Gimmicks are silly things that don't actually work or are pure marketing hype. Things like semi-synthetics, conventionals, and full synthetics are not gimmicks. They are types of lubricants.
How are they not gimmicks. Who would not just follow their owner's manual recommendation. Manual will either say synthetic or not and grade.
What is the point of the rest of the oils I listed?
So now I'm confused about why you were even looking at these different types of oil. Just buy the OEM oil if that is your stance.
Companies compete with one another and just printing the same exact thing as the next one doesn't do much to catch a customer's eye. They aren't gimmicks, they are branding trying to convey a message. For instance, if they say something like "High Mileage" but actually offer nothing different in that formula from their other types, that would be a marketing gimmick. However, as far as I am aware, the formulas for different types are different in one way or another, thereby making them not gimmicks.
The definition of gimmicks is "a trick or device intended to attract attention, publicity, or trade.". So they are.
So by that definition; the mere fact it is offered for sale, it has a price, it is in a container, the manufacturer has a website, they print their name on the container, etc. are all gimmicks.
Originally Posted By: MotoTribologist
Originally Posted By: TheMidnightNarwh
Originally Posted By: MotoTribologist
What you are describing as "gimmicks" are just things. I'm not sure what the complaint is really about. As far as I can tell, you just don't like choices.
Gimmicks are silly things that don't actually work or are pure marketing hype. Things like semi-synthetics, conventionals, and full synthetics are not gimmicks. They are types of lubricants.
How are they not gimmicks. Who would not just follow their owner's manual recommendation. Manual will either say synthetic or not and grade.
What is the point of the rest of the oils I listed?
So now I'm confused about why you were even looking at these different types of oil. Just buy the OEM oil if that is your stance.
Companies compete with one another and just printing the same exact thing as the next one doesn't do much to catch a customer's eye. They aren't gimmicks, they are branding trying to convey a message. For instance, if they say something like "High Mileage" but actually offer nothing different in that formula from their other types, that would be a marketing gimmick. However, as far as I am aware, the formulas for different types are different in one way or another, thereby making them not gimmicks.
The definition of gimmicks is "a trick or device intended to attract attention, publicity, or trade.". So they are.
So by that definition; the mere fact it is offered for sale, it has a price, it is in a container, the manufacturer has a website, they print their name on the container, etc. are all gimmicks.