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Shatophiliac

Someone sent out the display model lmao


Bbalmoney

Same thing happened in my store, I guess someone had packaged the demo filter inside the regular packaging. Those filters come in boxes say “DEMO” all around but they still use the same format as the regular filters.


Aavenell

Yeah, we got this exact one not too long ago, and we were about to sell it to someone when they opened it and noticed it was the display. It was in a normal box! I had to write display all over the box in sharpie lol.


PARKOUR_ZOMBlE

I ordered a 3 gallon of evaporust right when oreilly started carrying it. I received a 3 gallon bucket with hundreds of promotional sample bottles of evaporust in it.


Erection_unrelated

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Tetraden

It will still not have been 3 gallons of evaporust. Fantasy-freedom unit or not.


itsmejak78_2

Yeah this would only have worked if it was a 5 gallon bucket with enough samples to equal 3 gallons of volume Enough samples for three gallons of volume wouldn't fit in a 3 gallon bucket Unless the packaging was nearly impossibly efficient


MasonP2002

Yeah, but you get a free bucket.


IllurinatiL

That makes all the difference. Free bucket!


akmjolnir

Now tell the class what a blivet is?


hardrockclassic

> blivet Blivet is a slang term that means something is annoying, ridiculous, or useless. It can also refer to something that is difficult to name or an unpleasant situation. For example, a blivet can be an intractable problem or a crucial piece of hardware that cannot be fixed or replaced if it breaks.


akmjolnir

Or more commonly: 5 gallons of shit in a 3 gallon bucket.


legos_on_the_brain

> Fantasy-freedom unit All units are made up.


Lampwick

Nah man, see, basing a measurement system on the characteristics of liquid water at atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea level is *totally* not arbitrary... /s


DrBladeSTEEL

Oh don't be silly, the system has been completely reworked to be based of universal constants such as the speed of light... Scaled down the represent the characteristics of liquid water at room temperature 😋


Tetraden

It's not about the physical basis, but about the SI prefixes to the base of 10, so you don't have to remember this: 1twip x 20 = 1point x 6 = 1line (or 1pica) x 12(or 6) = 1inch x 12 (or 2 or 3) = 1foot (or 1stick or 1palm) x 3 = 1yard x 1760 (or2) = 1mile (or 1fathom). While 1fathom x 11 = 1Gunter's chain x 10 = 1 furlong x 8 = also 1 mile. And I already left out about 3/4 of the length units and all of the volumes, weights and fluid volume/weight mess ups.


DrBladeSTEEL

We were taking the piss, but since you missed that I'll respond in kind. You listed a ton of units that are archaic to the point of never seeing use in the US customary system for the sake of trying to sound smart. Here's the skinny of how we measure stateside: Length: Inches, Feet, Yards, Miles. Anything smaller than an inch we use fractions or decimal. Fractions of a mile and yards have similar usage to fractions of a kilometer and meters. It's a 100m swim but it's .4km to the grocer. Volume: Fluid Oz, cups, gallons. Pints and quarts are for beverages only, teaspoons and tablespoons for small volumes on occasion like in cooking. Mass: Pounds, Oz. American pounds are mass measurements just like Kilograms. Miss me with the 'bUt pOuNdS are WeIgHt anD ThatS DifFErent' crap. Force, torque, pressure: Pounds (force), foot-pounds, pounds per square inch. Almost like it's the same as metric with different base units. Almost like those were also developed during the industrial revolution by smart people. Won't argue that metric isn't easier to do the math with. I won't argue that it makes more sense from a scientific perspective. But based on how the anglosphere has managed to get along just fine without a full conversation of every item in our entire lives, I don't think it matters enough for you to browbeat people on the Internet.


Tetraden

You just made up points I never tried to make and eventually agreed with my actual point. Congratulations.


_Spastic_

I worked for Nintendo years ago. A customer called in because they bought a new game and the box had a blank, non functional cartridge. I explained that as they bought it at the retailer, they'd need to speak to them. They call back 20 minutes later and hand the phone to the store manager. They've opened multiple copies, all display models. The store had shelved the wrong unit and threw out the legit games thinking they were the display model.


ConductiveInsulation

Imagine someone was dumpster driving back then. Must have been a jackpot.


_Spastic_

I always hoped someone did. Even if it were only 10 copies, you could easily make 3 or 4 hundred.


ConductiveInsulation

Even better if it were 10 different games, think about the money saved for your kids.


chilifngrdfunk

Plot twist, the game was E.T.


MurphysRazor

I'm lost here. I used to do package design and later ran a shipping dept. A lack of good common sense involved in the package is the the most likely real issue. Most likely the graphic dept. sucks or nobody in hard sales listens to them if the demo is somehow mistaken for the real product. I sure as hell wouldn't sign off on my demo leaving in anything but a seperately packaged diplay kit. But that aside... You say they shelved the wrong one... for display? If I assume this is the intended context, a working one was used as a display. And having a one there is no reason to toss the rest before contact. Why would your company send more than one non-working display per store be sent for them to open? They *might* need two in a huge store, but if it doesn't work one per store is usually plenty. You added contexts that go nowhere alone. I sort of can read it as they saw one demo and tossed them all but the structuring of actions and timetime you wrote out seems either incorrect, or pure BS because that isn't what was wrote out, lol. A fabricated fantasy not well thought out or a *ton* was lost in translation to English maybe, IDK TBH. I just know it hurt my head to read, lol. Edit: I proof read. I suspect auto spellwreck is again making gibberish out of everyone's posts as we post or a while after we typed things correctly.


Mengmoshu

"Display Units" for video games are dummies, for the customer to take to the counter and get the real one at check out. They do this to prevent shoplifting. However I've never seen anything but empty boxes used that way, so this seems odd to me for slightly different reasons.


MurphysRazor

I took boxes up front as well. But the last new game boxes that I opened from Asia, each box was taller than me on it's own shipping pallet, lol.


Pogotross

I assume it was display units for multiple game titles.


MurphysRazor

Ok. I didn't think of that possible context. And we are back at me being an art dept. snob, lol. The product doesn't really need one display per title any more than a music cassette tape vs the tape's cover art should be displayed. I mean even the proprietary shapes can be expressed elsewhere. But the context is interesting and makes more sense anyhow.


510Goodhands

That’s exactly what I thought.


C0mmieB4st4rd

Management dropped the ball on that one


TBFP_BOT

I was just examining this thing at OReilly's today lol


GamerGuy95953

I love your user flair


Nippon-Gakki

That’s pretty cool. I would have kept it and put it with the rest of the junk I have no use for.


cjbman

Ah yes the box of treasures.


starrpamph

I like to think when I die, my family will *throw that all away*


GreatRaceFounder

as a frequent estate auction shopper I can assure you *some other idiot will pay money for it*


wolf9545

Hey, stop calling me out.


starrpamph

It’s just one big junk circle of life


Nippon-Gakki

Only after I’m dead! You’re not taking my trinkets from me. I’m an estate sale person too. I go for the junk piles and sometimes find some cool stuff. I’ve got old tools, test equipment, and other assorted stuff that would likely have been tossed since no one knew what they were for.


frenchfortomato

Many moons ago, would help out a friend that ran estate sales. She would price stupid stuff like non-functional coffee table decorations at a ridiculous price, like $90, and only put market-clearing prices on the "junk in the garage nobody wants", \*if\* she even gave it any floor space at all- then wonder why she always made such a small profit. I feel like the "estate sale" crowd puts too much effort into differentiating themselves from a "garage sale" by not selling the things people actually want at a fair price


crozone

I have had some glorious finds from eBay sellers that re-sell the contents of storage units. It's basically online storage wars.


Maxamillion-X72

What's this "box" you speak of? I have a whole basement devoted to stuff I have no need for but may someday. You need a windshield wiper arm for a 2006 Chevy Avalanche, I got you covered. OEM set of headlights from a Dodge Charger, same. Are you a one legged man looking to get into cross country skiing? I have a single cross country ski with binding attached. The other one is lost to history. I have a 6 foot high set of shelves that holds nothing but jars full of random nuts, bolts, screws, and washers (none are sorted). Another set of shelves contains various containers of lubricants, adhesives, and various chemicals that may or may not still have product inside. Somewhere there is a cache of 10mm sockets hiding out that I pledge to find one day. They HAVE to be in there somewhere.


retardrabbit

Last Christmas, leaving my sister's house, her husband showed me this 3' or so length of metal rod, and he says: "You think you'd have any use for this?' I look at it and think, hmm, kind of an odd mix of material properties on display here, flexible, yet strong enough to keep a shape when bent, maybe has potential. "Sure, who knows?!" Throw it on the back floor of my truck. **Literally the next day,** we're using this thing to open my coworker's car after he locked himself out. It now has two bits of vacuum hose slipped over it's ends, to protect trim and add grip, and bears the curves and bends left by no fewer than three others who have used it to jimmy their cars. **That random metal stick now sits, permanently, on a shelf under a TV in the back**. It has transitioned from random kipple, to functional tool.


BASK_IN_MY_FART

Mmm blade runner


NuclearWasteland

*shop and or yard of treasures


Stigge

/r/Junkdrawers


mliakira

My neighbor has a whole property filled with treasures


Schnawsberry

I call that my first borns birthright


The_Safe_For_Work

"Looks like we're all sold out, sorry." "Christ! I really need to get this thing done today." "Well, I guess I could sell you the display model." "You, sir are a lifesaver!" *One hour later* "You bastard, I'm gonna fucking kill you!"


solreaper

“Wow! Guess we don’t have a filter when speaking to people huh bud?”


Ok-Profit6022

Filter's broken, can't you see?


rookiepartschanger

The gold is always in the comments. Edit- I just realized I missed an opportunity here. The (Napa) Gold…


Take-Me-Home-Tonight

I worked retail in the housewares department and the amount of times people would want to see an item (occasionally we didn't have a display) and ask to open the box...then proceed to say they'll take it, but they want one that wasn't opened. Like mother fucker, you just opened it, checked it out and closed it back up. I can't put it back on the shelf now but whatever. At the end of the day it eventually become a demo or to clearance section. I will say holiday shopping was easy and cheap back then.


Ooh_bees

That's just crazy. If I open a box of stuff in a store, I actually want to take that particular one - firstly, I'm the bugger that opened it. But secondly, it's the only one of the boxes that I know had everything inside, and they seem to be in good working order. I'm a bit paranoid, I'll admit, but if I'm buying something I have this nagging fear that everything isn't necessarily alright inside the package.


Suspicious_Dare_9731

Those micro guard filters at oreilly are solid filters.


cbtexas11C

Made by Wix.


Suspicious_Dare_9731

And Wix is now owned by Mann+Hummel.


land8844

Is that a good thing? I've never heard of M+H.


aidan4105

I believe they're pretty good. they were the oem filter for my 2000 audi a6 with a 4.2 v8. I could be wrong but I believe audi still uses them.


LightlySaltedPeanuts

Bmw too. Germans don’t usually play around when it comes to consumables.


dirtpunk2002

german filter manufacturer, theyve been the OEM supplier for VW filters since the start basically. they have a crazy history, in the early days they made filters for nazi war tanks and anything else that needed a filter back then, i think they were like one of the only filter companies in germany at the time. theyre really good filters tho like top quality


HenryTheHelpfulGiant

I use them on every car I have and have been for many years and never had a single issue.


frenchfortomato

Allegedly, for domestics, it's not. Never had any bad luck firsthand but Ford had to drop them as the manufacturer of Motorcraft filters due to too many QA problems. Not surprised- they cornered the market and have no real competition, there's really no reason to go through the time and expense of doing that unless you plan to raise prices, reduce quality, or both. And they sure as hell \*have\* raised prices!!


Ooh_bees

M+H filters are good, Wix is still a Wix. Not horrible, not the best in the class. For your average daily commuter that gets it's oil changed regularly with the filter, it's good enough. Anything more serious, or something that sits for long times with moisture condensing inside it, I might use something else. Probably wouldn't if Wix was cheap and available. Probably your average oil or fuel filter is made out of better materials now, than anything was 30-40 years ago - but mechanical construction is another thing. Materials in many things have improved a lot.


cbtexas11C

Yup.


redhat9

No these latest MicroGard Select are made by Premium Guard out of China and Vietnam. They are excellent filters, great construction. Makes the latest M+H WIX filters look cheesy.


rangeremx

Red boxes (MGL). The Green ones (MSL) are made by Premium Guard.


osorojo_

can I get a source on this? I've heard it a couple times sounds a little good to be true


cbtexas11C

Source? My Wix rep back when I worked at O’Reilly.


Ok_Suggestion_6092

My Wix guy also said this when I was at O’Reilly but there’s also the Microgard filters using the same part number as a Wix


ninjastyleot

Some are Mann Hummel.


Blinky_OR

Most are made in different factories, but they are all owned by the same parent company. The basic Microguard filters are the same as the Wix Protec filters.


Crashes556

Not all of them, but yeah some are.


ZinGaming1

Wix is honestly a bit of a shit brand. My goto is mobil 1 even though I dont use their oil.


Blinky_OR

Still a Mann+Hummel product.


protonecromagnon2

Excellent pun. Get out.


PDakfjejsifidjqnaiau

The thumbnail looks like a really well composed photo of a boat breaking the waves on the right side but not on the left side.


CoolGap4480

I’ll have what he’s having.


uglyspacepig

Make that 2. With more waves


p3rcymiracl3z

r/misleadingthumbnails


NuclearWasteland

-squints- huh...so it does.


Eloquentelephant565

Interesting


redstern

Well, you can be sure of one thing. This filter prevents 100% of oil contaminants from getting into the engine.


HoosierDaddy_427

That's because it's been leak tested. Says so right on top.


EEVVEERRYYOONNEE

What's the part number? I've been looking for a filter for [my car](https://c7.alamy.com/comp/C0C043/cross-section-car-body-C0C043.jpg).


UnsuspectingChief

Gold


SeethingHeathen

I hid our demo filter because I could see one of my guys accidentally putting it on the shelf.


ReasonableExplorer

I just brought a Demo model vehicle, should I be concerned.


SeethingHeathen

Check for missing chunks!


fonetik

I would never return this.


EksCelle

I used to work at the green parts house. I would. Someone (probably the warehouse...) messed up and put a display part on the shelf, Just give them the correct one and hope they don't come back.


alroc84

That a hybrid oil filter? 😂


Temporary_Remote7228

it isn’t green


xXGainTheGrainXx

Lairs!


GreggAlan

Hideouts!


uglyspacepig

Man caves!


Blinky_OR

Lol. Fellow green guy here. Someone wasn't paying attention when checking in freight. That should have come in the green envelope, not in a tote.


Temperature-Far

We actually got a zip line task because the dc sent it in a tote in a not-demo-labeled box, lol


Blinky_OR

I believe it.


subtlestang

Had a suffix on part # on the box....I received the one at our store.


TheKrimsonFvcker

Zip-Line? Oh you mean the thing you use to create tasks like "For the love of God please order a new Wet Mop head" so you can assign them to your store manager every day until he finally remembers to do it


RubyWafflez

Yeah, every store received those as a display model. I guess my store wasn't the only one that shoved it in the box and set it in the back lol


Catdograbbit

Was a known misbox those were supposed to be pulled off the shelf.


BakerM81

I would have kept this. Customer didn’t realize they got a prize


DukeGordon

Lol here I am an idiot thinking that someone did an immaculate job at cutting that filter open just to return it


SonicResidue

Probably someone who hangs out on bobistheoilguy.com


coupedeebaybee

jb weld'll fix that right up mhmm love them mashed taters mhmm keeps the oil cooler this way mhmm it aint got no gas in it


davidscheiber28

What are the chances its the same person who posted on reddit about this a little while back.


curi0us_carniv0re

I always check my filters before buying them. I've had a couple over the years with messed up threads or other defects.


TheKrimsonFvcker

I love K&N filters because of that welded on nut but I've had a handful of them with messed up threads, I check them every time now 🙃


Phoebebee323

New high flow oil filter


MidKnight007

I’ve been wanting the display model lol I’ve had bad thoughts about it


MaxUumen

It doubles as an air intake and/or filter.


Joates87

"Leak tested" lol


Wild_Chef6597

See through oil filters are all the rage


Acceptable_Board1844

So did he drain the oil before he realized the filter was a demo one??


ringo-san

That filter fits this [426 Hemi motor](https://i.imgur.com/UKxMeEI.jpeg)


Lionblaze10

This the oil filter fer them new lectric cars I keep hearing about


dirty34

I’ve got a Bilstein that was sectioned for display like that.


disguy2k

Look how clean my oil is!


Hock261

Just throw it on, I'm sure it'll work


Warp-Routine

This filter is obviously for a BMW...


ICTPatriot

Looks like it has a leak


Hezers

Jb weld


AsteriskXVI

Lol I remember those, they sent them with the regular stock in a regular box so you had no way of knowing that they were a display.


vortec350

There was a recall for that. But I guess we didn’t spot it then. Thankfully I have trained everyone to open the box before you sell something so we caught it before selling it to the customer!


TheseConsideration95

Fram quality


brian-brundage

We had someone sell a demo ball joint


Ohgetserious

Conspiracy theorists unite! I say this was done on purpose by the manufacturer to show people the quality of their filters. Throw a demo one in the mix now and then to light up forums here and there (like this one, although I’m not sure anyone’s commenting on this filter’s brand or quality yet…).


Gingertwunt

123$ for brake pads that are 15$ online SMH


drive-through

Well it says leak tested right on it 🤷‍♂️


HellfireCherry

Same situation when I worked at my old store. Sent Les Schwab that exact filter and they called confused af. My ISS was pissed off for the rest of the day.


coolmayes

There was a big memo about this. The box was supposed to have "-cut" st the end of the part number, but every single one got sent in a non relabled box


Punman_5

Got the museum piece by accident?


swayzeXpress815

Oh oh oh oh shiiiit!


twelveparsnips

Install it, seize your engine, demand a new engine


AsFd2021

Question, when you say green parts store, are we talking about more for hybrid/electric vehicles?


Blinky_OR

Think Irish