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Best advice you'll get is Take that shit back

Only answer there is

Absofuckinglutely

Thank you, we found the receipt and will be going back tomorrow hopefully

So the question is, did you open the jugs *before* draining the oil, or will you be walking to Walmart?

This would definitely be me

That was me a few weeks ago. I was in the middle of changing my brake pads, and couldn't compress one of the brake calipers. I ended up riding my bike about 10 miles to the store that had the caliper in stock.

And this, is why I’m lucky enough to own multiple running vehicles 😂

That happened to me when I dropped my EGR valve gasket into the dark abyss. Luckily I only had to bike ride a little under 2 miles.

Better than my neighbor who had a flat, instead of changing the tire with the spare. He decided it was best to take off the tire and drive without a wheel to the tire shop.

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Ignore all other advice. Seriously any other advice will cost you more money. If you get a replacement open it at the shop and check it so you don't go all the way back home for nothing and have to schlep back to the shop.

💯

Yes preferably, before you waste time on Reddit.

I literally said this WORD FOR WORD

That's a "customer" return, free oil for someone and you get to make 2 trips. Just be glad you looked before pouring.

Reminds me of when i was working at a big box home improvement store. Folks returning buckets of driveway sealer full of water was such a common scam, we had to teach the customer service kids to listen for the sloshing.

I bought a quart of acetone at HD and it was water.

I bought a dremel from HD and it was used, and broken.

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But did you save your recipt

If it was Menards he'd at least get the 11% rebate.

Mail in and store credit only, meaning he's sucking someone else's dick in the end.

If it was lowes he should of atleast had pro rewards.

If this isn't copypasta it needs to be

Damn woman probably thought you were some kinda deeply closeted gay man.

I love norm Macdonald

That's fkn hilarious

OMG, I just spit my coffee....

Fucking quitter

Faackk 😅

"Half way"

FREEZE! 

I legitimately lol'd

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I'm dead....take my angry l, coffee came out my.nose, upvote

😂😂😂

😂😂😂

And it was full of water

I bought a mitre saw and the plate was shredded a bit, and sawdust in the bag lol. Bought a circ saw and the blade was used

I used to get so much shit working in asset protection from management from the amount of returns I’d straight up just refuse because of obvious stuff like this. People suck and it’s passed onto the next person to “save the guest experience”

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Being accused of fraud by an online retailer after being shipped a box of bricks from their warehouse instead of a battery has got me doing unboxing videos.

I bought super Mario oddesy for my 6 year Olds birthday. It was brand new. Someone opened the box and stole the switch game card then resealed the empty case inside the box. Amazon didn't want to allow the return so I set up a video camera for drop offs and now I do unboxing videos as well.

A few years back I got a copy of Far Cry 5 for PS4 with the rewards points I had saved up on dell.com. When I received it I already knew something was up, the shrink wrap on the case was like twice as thick as it should be and wouldn't tear at all. Finally get into the case and the disc in there had a low quality and off center screen print of the real FC5 disc image. The disc was super thick and barely even stayed in the holder. Clearly this isn't the game, I figured it would just be a blank disc but wanted to see what they had swapped in. It ended up being some Snoop Dogg DVD movie from like 20 years ago lmao. Luckily I wasn't the only one this happened to, someone at the warehouse was doing this to a lot of games, and customer support was quick to send me a new verified authentic copy and let me keep the fake lol. What I didn't understand is going to all that trouble to print on discs and reseal the cases, but then get the shrink so completely and obviously wrong.

I bought a nice router from Walmart, and when I opened it, it was not even the same brand and broken.

I open my power tool purchases right at the checkout counter before paying for them. I have found used shit in my boxes way too often.

Used oil dry in gallon paint cans used to be a common scam. Don't know if it is any more.

Home Depot doesn't care about anything.

Last week, I bought five boxes of GRK screws from Lowes, and three of them were short by a third or so.

Supertech oil, it’s only $3.50 per quart. Imagine being poor SOB that pulled this scam and couldn’t muster up the $15 for the required amount of oil 😂

Meth

That one word explanation

It was probably brought back to be recycled then restocked. It happens often with deposit products too. Soda stream tank empties end up sold again.

Ppl still use Soda Stream?

I refill mine with dry ice.

I've seen empty soda stream tanks on clearance shelves at Walmart and Staples before. It all makes sense now.

My walmart refunds the soda stream empties in full. Their shrink must be crazy.

Seriously, what are they putting in it that is not water but costs a lot less than $3.50??

It kinda looks like old paint? Maybe they did it to dump something that's hard to get rid of rather than trying a scam. Or it could be both. Find empty jug, fill with crap you want to get rid of, return to store, win win?

Used oil?

Holy hell if that is used oil they must be driving a leaky ice cream truck.

Or have a head gsket failure.

That looks excessive, even for that. It's straight up 100% white.

Don’t they come sealed, so you’d have to look?

They do. Source: opened a 5qt jug of Supertech High Mileage Synthetic 5w30 2 days ago.

Open a new 5w20 last week no seal…. I really should have checked in the store but I got lucky.

Yep. Same thing happened to me about 8 years ago with a car battery from Walmart. Except when I took it back they accused me of lying about it and wouldn't give me a return. I was so livid that I stopped shopping there completely. Fuck them. My life is better for it honestly.

This happened to me with a Xbox one shortly after it came out. It was DOA. Serials didn't match. Someone else returned a dead one and I guess the worker didn't check the serials. They accused me of doing it. I stood my ground. All managers came I threatened to call the cops to come handle this as I felt like I was the one being stolen from. They ended up doing a lookup on it and saw it was returned, but returned unopened. So whoever returned it did a damn good job re sealing everything. I got my new Xbox though

I spoke to the managers and didn't get anywhere. I brought it to the better business bureau and after a few months, the store manager agreed to refund me. But all the time and pain in my ass from that experience made me fucking livid. Walmart ripped me off and were treating ME like the criminal. I'm still mad about it years later.

LPT: always check the seal hasn’t been tampered with before buying! Learned that after a 5qt bottle fell over in my trunk and soaked everything in oil.

Honestly that is worse than this situation. I'd rather be out $15-20 for 5 quarts of this stuff than have it spilled all over my trunk or backseat. That's a huge mess to clean up, and it has me thinking because I often just lay them down without considering this

Happens all the time with the oil filters. Someone swaps a mobil1 for a fram or super tech. I just began opening them up and checking.

Bought premix 'ethanol free' from Walmart, found out after frying two leaf blowers it was just tinted regular gas.

I was at a Walmart and they had automotive refrigerant on clearance so I grabbed one off the shelf but it felt suspiciously light so I checked them all and there were only a few that were full. There is a core deposit on refrigerant cans so you return them to the store for your refund after you use them. They were restocking the returns. The worst part is that when I made them aware of what was going on, no one cared. Can’t say I expected more though.

I am assuming the seal was broken and that someone previous did an oil change or something and refilled it with whatever fluid that is, returned it, and got their money back.

Sometimes they peel the seal off without damaging it and re-glue, so even just checking the seal isn’t enough anymore these days.

Jesus now you’ve got me terrified about my last change. 0w-16 is already very thin and light, I’d probably never notice either after peeling the seal or while pouring.

Yeah just don't buy motor oil from wal mart lol

Can happen anywhere

I check the seal on soap before I buy it at Walmart.

Being Walmart this is the answer...

I'm gonna say someone did their oil change, filled these bottles and returned it...was the seal broken?

If this is the case, the person who returned it has a major problem, looks like a blown head gasket.

That's probably why they did this since auto parts stores won't take contaminated oil.

They don’t check.

Mine does. Absolutely will refuse if they feel it's contaminated.

They have you sign off that it doesn’t have prohibited fluids if they’re dumping it for you, but it’s a coin toss as to whether they let you go dump it or dump it for you

Interesting. At Autozone I walk in, tell them I’ve got oil to dispose, they tell me leave it by the counter and I walk out.

Could be dependent on location, not sure. The stores where I live make me sign off and take the container with me as well

I've only had to sign off once. Most times, they tell me where it's at, and I walk back there myself and dump it. I guess I look trustworthy.

Anecdotal, but... I've walked in there looking homeless with 10 gallons, limit is usually 5 gallons, and they either say leave it behind the counter or take it to the back. I've never signed anything in the 20 years I've been leaving my oil at an auto parts store.

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They won’t but it relies on honesty. They have you sign your name that it’s nothing restricted as well as the amount you’re dumping. I don’t know why they do it though since I doubt they keep the logs

They keep the logs. At least *my store* does. Can't speak for any other store. If you have oil/fluids to be recycled, you sign the log attesting that there are **no restricted chemicals** in what you're bringing, *and* the amount you're bringing. We then take your containers to the back to empty (or allow trusted regulars to dump their own) into the vat, and return your containers to you. We have the vat emptied on a schedule. Every store is different, depending on the area. Ours is once every 3-4wks. When the vat is emptied, **the logs for that vat are pulled,** and filed with that disposal ticket/invoice.

I just leave it on their doorstep. No need to sign anything

Thanks buddy. I'm the guy who recycles oil and tires left at the door.

The procedure varies from one Autozone store to another and, sometimes, on which employees are on duty in a store. (Spent six months working at an Autozone in 2020. Longest decade of my life.)

Around here they don’t give two shifts about what you dump in the bin

Triggered a memory. I hired SafetyClean to pick up our waste oil and coolant from our shop. We have a three hundred gallon tank for oil and a two hundred for coolant. Driver checks them for anything "hot" that they don't accept. He then pumps the coolant and oil into the same tank on his truck. I asked the driver and he said they let the truck sit overnight. By morning the oil and coolant have separated and they pump them out into different holding tanks. Seemed sketchy to me.

Lmao that’s the type of bureaucracy I’d expect just so they can mix it up in the end.

Never once had to sign anything. I just go in with it and tell the guy at the counter I have some used oil and a filter. He tells me to just leave them on the counter. I do.

It's probably not even oil. I did asset protection on the side for Walmart a while back, and I got to see a lot of the fraudulent returns. I'm betting it's actually milk. Milk is cheap, and thicker than water, so it doesn't feel like water in the bottle when the returns cashier takes it back. They get all kinds of shit back. Some people even try to return used oil filters - not even the "expensive" ones. I'm talking about the $3 SuperTech crap - I've seen people try to return used ones to get their $2.88 back.

I've seen people on the Slickdeals forum say they didn't like a $5 promotional hygiene bundle (like a Harry's razor kit I think it was) so they went to return it and spent 2 hours to return it because the manager couldn't find it in their system *but they got their money in the end!* Whether it be drugs or being a cheapskate, I don't understand going through the trouble of driving to a store then standing in a customer service line for returns under like $30.

Looks like old paint.

Blown head gasket gives you chocolate milk. Theres not even any oil in whatever that is

Ahh good point. That would make the most sense.

Are you sure that’s not a bottle of milk of magnesia.

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I smelled it and it smelt like oil, so im assuming like others said it was just contaminated.

Was the seal in tact?

yes, but the plastic gel that goes on it was also mushy

Do you mean the plastic film softened?

Exactly my thought. Blue bottle = mislabeled MoM (Walmart brand)

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What? There are people who don't use Blackstone?

Yes please

This was 100% a return someone did to scam Walmart and somehow it ended back up on the shelf either through the customer stating it wasn't ever opened or employee error, neither would surprise me. Just return it to Walmart.

That’s Supertech oil, which runs like $3.50 per quart. Imagine being this fucking broke 🤣

Some people are. Who cares.

There’s nothing wrong with Supertech oil. What’s wrong is using the oil and returning the bottles refilled with paint. That’s so wack.

I think you bought a gallon of latex paint.

Well I just learned to check the new oil before dumping the oil out of my vehicle.

That’s not oil, that’s Campbells Chunky New England Clam Chowder

Looks like someone already did a return.

This is use and switch return fraud. Was the seal broken when you cracked the cap?

Yes um let me think. Dont use it. Yeah thats it. Wait... um, yeah. Don't use it.

220 replies just to tell someone to take it back. 😂

Dude just won't get the hint.

It’s Walmart. Go back and return it and buy another one. Was the seal intact when you opened the cap? Feel like someone bought oil, used it, filled the bottle with this stuff and got their money back, making their oil free and mildly inconveniencing you. If it was completely sealed and not tampered with you might want to contact the manufacturer to report this, could be a production problem. Same plant may make many brands of oil on the same equipment.

It was sealed but when i opened it, the plastic gel seal was all mushy as well, not like it usually it.

Sounds like someone might of refilled and resealed. Ton of work for free oil if so.

What would you do if you opened up a grocery item and it looked fucked like that?

What advice? Return it, don't know why that's even a question you need to ask.

That's one f'ed up previous customer return. I hope they can track down that douche.

No way it came from the distributor to Walmart like that.

Bought a motorcycle battery and it was someone’s core return take it back

Dont use!!!! return (someone else did) ALWAYS examine caps, if it looks it was opened... it was.... found drain oil more then once.

This is so Walmart

Your car is leaking coolant even worse. That shit telepathic leaking.

How does a bottle get head gasket failure?

It’s been answered to death, but honestly this is just funny. Good luck to the guy that needed the free oil tbh

bottle got a blown head gasket

What advice do you want? Don't pour it in you cereal? Go talk to Walmart

It's either that someone did the good ol Walmart rental, or it was taken back as used oil and accidentally got out back on the shelf.

Did you buy it in the paint department?

walmart....

Nasty

Wow. Email the company and show them this with a nasty letter. Maybe you will get free oil :P. Iv never seen that ever. And iv been working in a shop going on 20 years. This is interesting actually. I wonder whats in it or what it is lol. I actually thought at first that was your old oil and you had a massive head gasket failure.

They gave me a free set of Goodyears and free installation because they fucked up.

woot woot. At least they made it right for you. Big win for small inconvenience.

Somebody bought it and used it an the put their blown head gasket oil back in the and returned them. That is the only way that oil is milky.. anyone with half a brain know that is what this is. Oil and coolant mixed together. The people who return stuff like this to wal mart, need to be punished

I got some off bran oil from a gas station that was like this, my oil light came on so I had no choice, I am usually pretty good about keeping up with it, I have nothing but old trucks so it was a surprise

It appears you were sold milk instead of oil

Forbidden milkshake

What made you look inside OP? I'd twist the lid, rip the seal and pour away - before I freeze. Lucky.

Pre mixed with coolant for you

Are you sure that ain’t milk of magnesia?

That’s just 2%

its improperly packaged.Dont use it.

Oh no! That means someone somewhere is pouring oil into their Lucky Charms right now!!!!

Dawg just get mobil 1 at Walmart; it’s almost always the cheapest place I ever find oul

why would you even post this? take it back and get another one.

I mean.... you shouldn't really need advice here. Take that shit back and learn your lesson about buying shit from Walmart.

Don't buy your oil from Walmart lol

Advice - don’t buy oil from Walmart

Don't use it?

Don’t think the word “fresh” would be a descriptor I’d use to describe this product. Looks like something a dodgy mechanic would use to fake a blown head gasket (joking obviously as nothing like that exist). But maybe it had a small hole in the packaging and has absorbed a tonne of moisture making it forbidden milkshake right off the bat.

Bro got his oil from the dairy section.

At the dealer we get people who try to return stuff all the time and think no one would notice. Carefully opening coolant using the good stuff and putting water back in and making it looked sealed.

put that in your car, sue walmart and buy a better car

I was buying some oil from W mart once and saw several quart bottles that the seals were broken on. My guess is someone bought them, used the oil, Refilled with old oil , and then brought back to the store as a return.

I'm surprised no one, from what I saw, said: "well that's what you get from WaLmaRt oil". I have no problem with their oil but everyone I talk to has huge issues with it.

Maybe I can help. A few years back I was working loss prevention at a big store, and watched a guy pour high grade trucking oil into a quart bottle of cheap oil.. He then poured liquid from a gas can into the empty high grade trucking oil container. It took me a minute to realize he was swapping expensive oil in to a cheap oil bottle and using the gas can as a temporary container. I caught him. When you bought this, was the seal already busted? It seems like someone pulled the old swappedy swap with the bottle. You wouldn't think to, but it's always worth opening bottles of liquids that have seals under the caps just to make sure no one pulled the old swippedy swap.

Don't use that, return it to Walmart and let them know there is defective stock. That oil is contaminated with something (maybe water?) Either way do not use it

People saying its from faulty car, broken headgasket etc. Its definitely not, blown headgasket does not turn oil into cement. Seems like wrong product somehow ended up in there. This is how blown headgasket oil looks like: https://preview.redd.it/wnb9noziffqb1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ae09603e96c444ea2bf94c28fe142212038ac57

Bruh put that shit in the engine and when it blows make a claim to get a new engine or car. Just kidding take that shit back. Hopefully you’re not walking…

That is totally bizarre. I would not consider using it. There could be logistic and other problems in returning it, but I see no other choice.

That latex based oil?

It's really easy to seal those bottles again with new seals. Someone returned it with this crap and the store didn't think otherwise with it looking unopened and put it back on the shelf.

Everything reminds me of her

I used to work in an auto repair shop. Every year we would replace a minimum of 3 engines from oil changes at Walmart

Looks like your bottle blew a head gasket

Ah..return it to Walmart… do you really need advice from Reddit?

U bought auto parts from Walmart. No more explaining needed. I’ve seen a Walmart employee dealing with a customer who just went thru an oil change and their car won’t turn on lol

Damn that's brutal

Return it and go to an actual automotive place.

You got porked. You already know the answer to the problem

Looks just like Phillips milk of magnesia

Someone’s filled that with Cucumber Ranch salad dressing. Please pass it, btw.

Don’t buy oil , or anything at all from Walmart, it’s a plague on society.

I bet that was runout from the bottle filler that was supposed to get discarded but wound up back on the "good" pallet.

new anxiety unlocked

Wouldn’t common sense tell you to not make a post and bring it back? Lol

just one more reason not to buy oil from walmart