I'm resisting buying any more detailing products

I bought so much in the beginning, but the way I look at it is you have to buy to try. I really don't regret any purchase I made as this rollercoater led me to find the products I love and will continue to use. Yes when new products come out, I am interested but now carefully pick and choose if I am going to try it. I have a good friend who has caught the detailing bug and have been giving him products to get started with, and he is also sharing them with his two son in laws.
 
Ditto here.
Was just talking with the WaxMaster about this subject. Neighbors come by and ask what I am doing and see how my cars look and how some of my neighbors cars look and ask what I use.
They usually leave with products because like others I will never use them all.
 
fly07sti said:
Let’s agree to disagree. LOL
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Yeah but those are your retirement plan, let’s be real. Some people collect coins, some people invest, you are buying microfiber because you know in the future it will be a precious resource.

You think I don’t see what you’re doing, but I definitely do.


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Coatingsarecrack said:
Like the crack dealer of the detailing world. Watch out guys if he offers you a free sample....lol


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Hey. You want it I can get it lol. I know ppl

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I love AutoGeek. So please, don't anyone (including AutoGeek) take this the wrong way.

But AutoGeek is a sales and marketing company. They make their living marketing and selling products to their consumers. We are all salesmen (and saleswomen) ourselves. When we are successful, it is because we've helped our customer identify a need, sometimes that the customer didn't even know he has, and then we provide a solution for that need.

AutoGeek is good at it's job. It has developed a list of customers from which it can count on "needing" their products. Sometimes it's the new item (how many of us are going to buy a Rag Company item just because it's now available?). Sometimes it's an improvement. Sometimes it's a product that Mike makes a video about that proves a particular product will solve the problem. Sometimes it's by educating their customer, via this forum, or even classes, to help us understand our need, and then they are right there to help us solve it.

This is not a bad thing. Like I said, we all do it, at least to some degree. But part of being a good consumer is understanding the relationship between the salesman and the customer, and taking the time to make sure that when we think we need something, we'd be wise to make sure it's really a need.

Do I heed my own advice? HELL NO! I buy stuff all the time when a sale makes it too good to pass up. But I'm finally getting to the point where I understand I don't often really NEED anything, and have begun being able to resist AutoGeek doing such a good job.

Until the next sale.
 
I consider it a healthy obsession. It is difficult to pass up on the next best thing but it is even more difficult to pass up a good deal. Go ahead and purchase that new product and tell us how it works.
 
Tell us so we don’t have to buy it ourselves lol
 
I struggle with this sometimes, as well. The more people I meet though, the more I realize that the amount of money I spend on detailing products is fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things. I know several people holding such large sums of debt they probably feel like Atlas, and plenty of other people who blow so much money on hobbies they simply can't afford or who just blow a lot of money in general.

As people explain to me their various situations, and how a lot of them got into them by simply not being aware of how bad it was getting - I came to the conclusion awhile back that since detailing is primarily my one bighobby (aside from strength training - which requires very little in the way of money once you get a rack, bar, bench, and plates) that I don't have to feel bad buying 25-50 dollars worth of stuff that may be absolute garbage every once in awhile. I don't go out of my way to waste exorbitant amounts of money on towels, or polishes/compounds (I actually sold a real big box of stuff on facebook for super cheap. basically gave it away.) But if something catches my eye I'll for sure buy it.

This year my goal is to thin down what I have to a reasonable amount, and really figure out what I want to be my "go to" products for certain things. With the addition of my work van, I'll have something I drive several hundred miles a week (like 80 miles daily, on average) to burn up some product on. So I'm looking forward to that.

It is shocking how easily you can accumulate massive (using this term loosely, for my situation) amounts of product that will take some time to use. I blame dilutable products being sold in gallon containers. They're just so economical.
 
Let me ask this. How much do y'all spend on a bottle of APC?

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I noticed people going nuts with cabinets full of product early on. I've been very careful to maintain a grasp on reality when it comes to how much product I need on hand.
 
ClearVue18 said:
Let me ask this. How much do y'all spend on a bottle of APC?

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Funny I haven’t bought a bottle of APC. Rather buy multiple bottles of apc label and marketed as specific cleaners.... in gallons if available......


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ClearVue18 said:
Let me ask this. How much do y'all spend on a bottle of APC?

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Guess it depends on which one I land on wanting to use for most things. If I went with D101, like 25 bucks a gallon, 2 bucks per 32oz diluted 10:1.

If I decide to keep buying power clean, 40 a gallon, 4 bucks a bottle at 10:1.

I can't imagine it ever being worth buying like.. a single bottle of APC, that would be wild.
 
Coatingsarecrack said:
Funny I haven’t bought a bottle of APC. Rather buy multiple bottles of apc label and marketed as specific cleaners.... in gallons if available......


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Ok lol so much do those bottles run I?

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Finick said:
It is shocking how easily you can accumulate massive (using this term loosely, for my situation) amounts of product that will take some time to use. I blame dilutable products being sold in gallon containers. They're just so economical.
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Yeah, I think that's a knee-jerk reaction, some of us for work or personal are tasked or simply feel the need to search for the most economical way to buy stuff, so by extension with the detailing stuff it's "well of course I'm going to buy a gallon, it's so much less per ounce" without really thinking about how much product that was and whether you were going to be able to use it up before the next flavor or even before that product got revised. So I started buying smaller bottles of stuff.

And then I lost my mind and bought 5 liters of Ech2O...but you have to understand, they were selling it for LESS than the 4 liter bottle! You understand, don't you??
 
LMAO! You have an ADDICTION Problem! I have THE SAME ADDICTION PROBLEM!.....LOL! KEEP ON ROCKING!
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Yeah, I think that's a knee-jerk reaction, some of us for work or personal are tasked or simply feel the need to search for the most economical way to buy stuff, so by extension with the detailing stuff it's "well of course I'm going to buy a gallon, it's so much less per ounce" without really thinking about how much product that was and whether you were going to be able to use it up before the next flavor or even before that product got revised. So I started buying smaller bottles of stuff.

And then I lost my mind and bought 5 liters of Ech2O...but you have to understand, they were selling it for LESS than the 4 liter bottle! You understand, don't you??
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I've also started paying more per oz for the smaller sizes. It feels bad sometimes, but it just makes so much more sense. I wish companies offered 64oz on some of their dilutable products, but I get that it probably makes no sense to set up bottling and spend the money to make that happen. I also always underestimate how much space gallon containers take up, lol.

And I definitely understand that. I mean when I bought 32oz of the pinnacle advanced finishing polish, there was a sale and it was hardly much more than if I had bought the 16oz bottle the day before. Why I thought I needed 32oz of finishing polish is beyond me, lol. Given how much I use to do my whole car, I could probably get by with 8oz polishing a couple times a year.
 
Finick said:
Guess it depends on which one I land on wanting to use for most things. If I went with D101, like 25 bucks a gallon, 2 bucks per 32oz diluted 10:1.

If I decide to keep buying power clean, 40 a gallon, 4 bucks a bottle at 10:1.

I can't imagine it ever being worth buying like.. a single bottle of APC, that would be wild.
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So we talking $10 or so a bottle?

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This 1 gallon of chemical guys is $32. I can get 5 gallons of APC for $35 that's the same thing that's 10 times more powerful than this 1 gallon bottle. See the joke.
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Setec Astronomy said:
Yeah, I think that's a knee-jerk reaction, some of us for work or personal are tasked or simply feel the need to search for the most economical way to buy stuff, so by extension with the detailing stuff it's "well of course I'm going to buy a gallon, it's so much less per ounce" without really thinking about how much product that was and whether you were going to be able to use it up before the next flavor or even before that product got revised. So I started buying smaller bottles of stuff.

And then I lost my mind and bought 5 liters of Ech2O...but you have to understand, they were selling it for LESS than the 4 liter bottle! You understand, don't you??
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I own 4 gallons of rinseless wash (Pinnacle, WG, BF, Mckees N-914), six 16oz concentrate bottles of rinseless wash (Ultima Plus, Ultima Acrylic, Ech2o, DG 931, Mckees Wash n Wax, another WG), three 16oz concentrate bottles of WW (Pinnacle, 2 BF), and 5 gallons of QD (Pinnacle CM, BF ID, Mckees HG DS, FK425, Poorboys Spray n Gloss).

What the ____ is wrong with me?? I’ll never live long enough to have that many date nights.
 
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