Really killer, really expensive wheels that none of you cheap skates are going to buy
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So, wait, you justify buying shitbag ching chang wheels by the fact that one piece of bodywork is more durable than the one that it's a fake of? You realize that there's a gaping hole in causality here, right?
And Garage Vary has hardly dug their own grave. 1.) I beat the crap out of my GV lip, and it's still alive 2 owners, 4 years, and countless cones and street miles later, and 2.) for an extra ~$50, you can still buy a real GV lip if you have principles.
So always gay?
And Garage Vary has hardly dug their own grave. 1.) I beat the crap out of my GV lip, and it's still alive 2 owners, 4 years, and countless cones and street miles later, and 2.) for an extra ~$50, you can still buy a real GV lip if you have principles.
So always gay?
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I justify buying fake wheels because I prefer to spend the money in other areas of importance. If the wheels in question were reasonably priced (like the set and half of 6UL's sitting here), it'd be a different story.
I hope you never step foot in Walmart, Kmart, Sears, Target, or Best Buy... They all have knock offs.
For the record- when someone asks why I bought a knock of GV lip when looking at the car, I walk up and step on it, watch it hit the ground, then flip back up and into shape like nothing happened.
I hope you never step foot in Walmart, Kmart, Sears, Target, or Best Buy... They all have knock offs.
For the record- when someone asks why I bought a knock of GV lip when looking at the car, I walk up and step on it, watch it hit the ground, then flip back up and into shape like nothing happened.
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"You realize that there's a gaping hole in causality here, right?"
Only when I fukc dude's in the a$$ over my piles of fake car parts.
I justify buying fake wheels because I prefer to spend the money in other areas of importance. If the wheels in question were reasonably priced (like the set and half of 6UL's sitting here), it'd be a different story.
I hope you never step foot in Walmart, Kmart, Sears, Target, or Best Buy... They all have knock offs.
For the record- when someone asks why I bought a knock of GV lip when looking at the car, I walk up and step on it, watch it hit the ground, then flip back up and into shape like nothing happened.
I hope you never step foot in Walmart, Kmart, Sears, Target, or Best Buy... They all have knock offs.
For the record- when someone asks why I bought a knock of GV lip when looking at the car, I walk up and step on it, watch it hit the ground, then flip back up and into shape like nothing happened.
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I've said several times in here that I wouldn't ever buy a $2500 set of Volks either. But when the street price on janky Chinesium is within 10% of street price for legit wheels, buying them is the utmost foolishness.
The point stands that buying fake wheels hurts the people who are capable of actually designing and engineering good ones.
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I've said several times in here that I wouldn't ever buy a $2500 set of Volks either. But when the street price on janky Chinesium is within 10% of street price for legit wheels, buying them is the utmost foolishness.
The point stands that buying fake wheels hurts the people who are capable of actually designing and engineering good ones.
The point stands that buying fake wheels hurts the people who are capable of actually designing and engineering good ones.
If they made a street tire to fit the 15*10's, you'd never see my car with anything but
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Can you name one company that's gone out of business due to knockoff wheels? Like I said two pages ago, ---- is gonna get copied no matter what business you are in, and those who innovate, offer a product that stands out, is properly engineered and stays ahead of the trends will win out.
Within 10%, ---- yeah I'll buy the real deal. But half price? No way, I'll wait for some reviews on quality and take my chances. I even offer mass produced "generic" stuff, with full disclosure, to my customers if it'll save them some money. I've got no problem with that if they don't.
Within 10%, ---- yeah I'll buy the real deal. But half price? No way, I'll wait for some reviews on quality and take my chances. I even offer mass produced "generic" stuff, with full disclosure, to my customers if it'll save them some money. I've got no problem with that if they don't.
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Can you name one company that's gone out of business due to knockoff wheels? Like I said two pages ago, ---- is gonna get copied no matter what business you are in, and those who innovate, offer a product that stands out, is properly engineered and stays ahead of the trends will win out.
Within 10%, ---- yeah I'll buy the real deal. But half price? No way, I'll wait for some reviews on quality and take my chances. I even offer mass produced "generic" stuff, with full disclosure, to my customers if it'll save them some money. I've got no problem with that if they don't.
Within 10%, ---- yeah I'll buy the real deal. But half price? No way, I'll wait for some reviews on quality and take my chances. I even offer mass produced "generic" stuff, with full disclosure, to my customers if it'll save them some money. I've got no problem with that if they don't.
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Hotshot Headers is a perfect example. They made niche market exhaust components for unusual applications. It cost them an absolute fortune to design, prototype, develop, jig and produce a header for, say, a B13 Sentra SE-R with an SR20VE. It cost Ching Chang's Chinesium the price of a header and one guy's pay for a day making a jig to copy it. Hotshot went under a few years ago.
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We are sorry, due to extremely poor business practices and quality of Hotshot Headers, RR-racing no longer sells their products. We appologize for any inconvenience and are working hard to develop find a good alternative.
It wasn't the Chinese that led the demise of Hotshots. It was the consumer who led the charge.
as a business Hot Shot headers was super shady, closed up shop and ran with customer's parts and stuff...
I'm not saying knockoff stuff is not the result of theft...it is. But if ANY company in business these days does not think it's going to happen, and banks on that, then yeah they'll probably go under. Build something great, make money, then build something else great and make money on that while China, etc, is busy copying your previous idea. Repeat.
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It's impossible to make your development costs back when there is a knockoff available on ebay 3 weeks after you release a part. You have to be able to see this. The fake houses are so quick to knock off parts that I saw fake HKS Gen 3 BOVs in person before I saw a real one.
What's the motivation to innovate when you know you can't keep up with the Chicoms?
What's the motivation to innovate when you know you can't keep up with the Chicoms?
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When it comes to wheels your talking about two different markets between knock offs and baller wheels. People arent cross shopping them. Rota isnt stealing money from volk, because the people that will drop the coin for the volks arent even looking at rotas.
On the other hand take me, as long as I have 1 dollar of debt, I will never spend the money on pimp wheels, I like them cause they are pretty, but I sure as ---- wouldn't buy them. Would I buy a couple hundred dollar set of knock offs...oh YEAH!
On the other hand take me, as long as I have 1 dollar of debt, I will never spend the money on pimp wheels, I like them cause they are pretty, but I sure as ---- wouldn't buy them. Would I buy a couple hundred dollar set of knock offs...oh YEAH!
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