Quote:
Originally Posted by Less
Why? The product represents a $2,100 investment!! Isn't he entitled to recoup that expense?
|
Yep he sure is... And I think the answer and concencious on the matter of the OP's question is a $100 upcharge is a fair estimate for a wide variety of reasons. Hopefully he can get more than 21 cars out of a tub in which he may or may not get refills on based on how he uses the wax.
Everything else in this thread is just filler garbage of a difference of opinions.
I honestly think Zymol gets this bashing alot because there's simply no other company I know of making $2100 and up wax. I know there's a $1000 wax from a competing company which is considered super high end. But with Zymol a mere $1000 breaks you into their mid grade stuff (or so it seems) And anyone with half a brain that can think for themselves clearly has to ability to ask.... Why???.
You have this notion that 61% nuba means something special. I can go out in my shop and pull half a dozen waxes off the shelfs that claim that and higher. ( a few claiming 100% right on the bottles) No I know it's a bunch of bull. I know pure Nuba isn't usable. But the claim is right there on the lables of many waxes... And it all means exactly jack crap to me. A good wax is a good wax. It dosen't need to cost much. Most of my waxes (all but one) cost less than $30. I've personally compared these to the $100+ waxes I've gotten to sample and it's simply no concernable difference and thus a waste of money to spend the big dollars. If I actually had clients that wanted "Brand X" and asked for it so be it I would then look into getting some of "Brand X". However right now I present my wax as 2 options. 1 Paste wax or 2 Liquid wax. I've never had anyone ask anything above that. 99% of the people just don't care. They just want a nice looking car. Which is why I go back to the hobbiest. If they want it by all means go buy it and have fun with it. but to most people it dosen't make any sense. You seemed to be beyond obsessed with it for some reason. Rest assured I'm not jealous of Zymol by any means. I can get great cars looking great without it just fine. Even if I had the means to plunk down there's just nothing about it that appeals to me.