I need to learn to read the label.

[Old Rotor Flap]

I bought a quart of Bondo filler yesterday.

When I opened the can it was about two-thirds full. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot I said to the dogs.

Then I read the label. 1 lb 12 oz. This quart can pictures a red Camaro

My old quart can said 30 oz. This quart can pictures a red Mustang. For you University of Colorado Humanities Majors, there is less in the current can.

I looked at a couple of auto parts stores web sites to check prices before stopping at one closest on my way home. Those sites refered to the size as a quart.

This morning a looked on ebay and Harbor Fright. HF calls it a quart. Only two ebay listings stated the weight. The others called it a quart.

My conclusion is, the majority of retailers are falsly advertising the product. Some would argue it is in fact a quart can. The next intuitively obvious question would be be, does it contain a quart of product? And, are the pint and gallon cans also only partially filled?

Bondo is a 3M product and we've all come to learn 3M makes good products and the 3M means 3 times the money.

3M's website doesn't reference to quantities.

 

[Northstar T]

This has become a very common practice among all manufactures (not just bondo manufactures). everything from syrup to bandaids. have you measured the width of a roll of toilet paper lately?? it's about a 1/4" narrower than it was a year ago.
Two stroke oil..... one I know about also: a one gallon mix bottle of two stroke oil was one 8 oz bottle per gallon of gas (16:1). now it's 2.6 oz (50:1). the bottle hasn't changed in 30 years (since it was an 8 oz CAN), there is just less product inside and a higher price outside.
welcome to the age of fuzzy math.

Russ

 

[Gerry]

Yep, thats the way of the world. Even food is being treated to the same thing. Less for more. Old marketing trick. Get consumers familiar with a packet and then change the contents... most people buy what they have before; without checking the small print.

Crafty and underhanded. Is what it is
Gerry

 

[Ted Brown]

It is that small print, screw the customer, it is everywhere... And it sometimes hits you after you order and find out you have made a mistake, you have to order this WITH it to get that price, I just tell them, I and my friends will not be back... Aholes...

 

[Telman2]

Those of us old farts living on SS are doubly screwed. A lot of companies are reducing the amount of product we get instead of raising the price. The government looks at a box of cereal that contains 20% less product but costs the same as not changing. So for the last two years there have been no adjustments for inflation.

 

[T-Odd]

When I was in Germany, the packs of Marlboro only had 19 cigarettes in them, rather than increase the price they removed one cig.

You still could get them from the vending machines for a 5DM coin.

 

[Old Rotor Flap]

Hey gents, need a good laugh?

I decided to rearrange some stuff in the garage yesterday becaue I couldn't find the sandpaper I wanted.
I reinstalled some shelves in a corner I had left down thinking I was going to install a hanging furnace there, but decided I needed the shelves for now.

Guess what I found, stuffed back on another shelf? Yup, Bondo. A gallon, A new, unopened gallon. I don't recall buying it. I'll bet it's been there two years or longer. The can pictures a Mustang and says 7.5 lbs. It was a struggle to get the lid off and sure enough, the gallon can is about two thirds full. I also found a qt can of laquer (sp) primer I'll bet I brought from Wisconsin in 1986.... I'll give it to a friend who has a body shop if he wants it.

 

[fordsbyjay]

That is the whole problem with the imperial measurement system. You can bounce between qts, gallons, ounces etc, and mean the same thing yet confuse the hell out of most people. When I mix oil for my weed wacker I have to add so many ounces to so many quarts of gas in a gallon jug. I mean WTF??? With the metric system it would be so many ml to so many l. Plain and simple. If you want to convert from one to the other the number stays the same you just shift the decimal.

Ok my rant is over. Good luck with the bondo.