Confused By Opie Oils Pricing

[goz_83]

I was just about to order a 25 litre drum of Motul 8100 X-cess 5W-40 fully sythetic, but the pricing is just not making sense. Am I missing something?

The price of a 5 litre bottle is £33.84, so 5 x5 litre bottles would cost £169.20. But a 25 litre drum is available at £186.30 (a full £17.10 more expensive than the cost of 25 litres ordered in 5 litre bottles). The same mistake seems to made throughout the page, so I must be missing something (or so i thought).
Then I checked the price if two 5 litre bottles were ordered. The SAVING is £1.69.
If you order four 5 litre bottles, you LOSE £7.54. See the link below and see for yourselves. £17.10 of a LOSS is crazy for bulk ordering. Is there something wrong here? I wanted to order in bulk for the fto and for the zafira, because it seems they can both take the same oil.

http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-877-motul-8 ... -oil.aspx#

[Bernard]

Did you PM Oilman about it?

[goz_83]

No. I figured it's the bank holiday weekend and that I might be missing something, so I wanted to ask here first.

[bluemajor]

it just dont add up maybe they have a surplus of 5 litre packs i normaly use fuchs 5w 40 and get it in wholesalers 60euros

[goz_83]

it just dont add up maybe they have a surplus of 5 litre packs i normaly use fuchs 5w 40 and get it in wholesalers 60euros

What's the quality of Fuchs compared to Motul, or Castrol? I only want top quality stuff.

[bluemajor]

ive used it since duckhams ceased havent had any problems with it

[goz_83]

ive used it since duckhams ceased havent had any problems with it

hmmm. Thanks. Where do you buy it?

[optical illusion]

Just PM oilman.

[goz_83]

Just PM oilman.

Yeah I have already. Hopefully will get sorted soon.

[bluemajor]

tedcastles or drennan oils

[colm_mcm]

tedcastles or drennan oils

Do they stock Motul?

[bluemajor]

you could look up 32touring.com his name is kevin no. 0879102244

[goz_83]

Oilman got back onto me. The price is right. It's just higher because it's harder to get the 25 litre drums. Thanks to me being vat registered, I now get ex vat prices.

[colm_mcm]

Result!

[bluemajor]

so much for carbon footprint 5 instead of one

[colm_mcm]

he's driving an FTO like