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So, I'm doing a little body work on a car. Nothing major, but requires a little touch-up paint when I'm done. No big deal, car has an almost 30 year old paint job on it, so it doesn't have to be perfect.
So I'm primed and ready to paint, so on my last trip into town I pop into the local Advance Auto for a spray can of Wimbeldon White. The repair area is way too big for the little brush-on can, but not big enough to get a quart of paint, reducer, etc.
Go down the paint aisle and I see it -- all the 11 oz spray cans are gone, replaced with new, easier to carry 8 oz cans! Same great low price of $6.97, just 3 oz less of paint to carry around?
WTF? The cans are the same diameter, so they can't get more on the shelves. There is no other reason for them to be smaller except that Dupli-Color is saving 3 oz of paint with each can. 3 oz that they can put in the little touch-up brush cans, which will now be pure profit aside from the little can they come in. (Which cost the same price, by the way.)
Bravo, Dupli-Color, you win. What a brilliant business plan. Except --
What's this? Since I'm the type of person that seeks out the best deal I can get on things I decided to check out Wal-Mart and see if they had anything to offer. Nothing in the automotive section, but, guess what Dupli-Color, Krylon Indor Outdoor Ivory = PERFECT MATCH for Wimbeldon White, and it's only $2.97 for 12 ounces. Perfect for my 30 year old paint job. It even sprays better and has a better spray tip!
So screw you, Duplicolor. You can take that 3 oz of paint you "saved" and shove it up your collective asses. From now on I will exhaust every other available resource before I buy your overpriced, crappy-spraying self righteous paint, even if it means repainting the entire freaking car. It didn't really match that great anyway.
If you have a hard to match color I would suggest you go out today and stock up on the bigger cans of touch-up paint. It'll keep. God knows how long it's been on the shelves already.
So I'm primed and ready to paint, so on my last trip into town I pop into the local Advance Auto for a spray can of Wimbeldon White. The repair area is way too big for the little brush-on can, but not big enough to get a quart of paint, reducer, etc.
Go down the paint aisle and I see it -- all the 11 oz spray cans are gone, replaced with new, easier to carry 8 oz cans! Same great low price of $6.97, just 3 oz less of paint to carry around?
WTF? The cans are the same diameter, so they can't get more on the shelves. There is no other reason for them to be smaller except that Dupli-Color is saving 3 oz of paint with each can. 3 oz that they can put in the little touch-up brush cans, which will now be pure profit aside from the little can they come in. (Which cost the same price, by the way.)
Bravo, Dupli-Color, you win. What a brilliant business plan. Except --
What's this? Since I'm the type of person that seeks out the best deal I can get on things I decided to check out Wal-Mart and see if they had anything to offer. Nothing in the automotive section, but, guess what Dupli-Color, Krylon Indor Outdoor Ivory = PERFECT MATCH for Wimbeldon White, and it's only $2.97 for 12 ounces. Perfect for my 30 year old paint job. It even sprays better and has a better spray tip!
So screw you, Duplicolor. You can take that 3 oz of paint you "saved" and shove it up your collective asses. From now on I will exhaust every other available resource before I buy your overpriced, crappy-spraying self righteous paint, even if it means repainting the entire freaking car. It didn't really match that great anyway.
If you have a hard to match color I would suggest you go out today and stock up on the bigger cans of touch-up paint. It'll keep. God knows how long it's been on the shelves already.
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