Why is the Mine's trunk lip so stupid?
04-05-2005, 12:14 PM
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Why is the Mine's trunk lip so stupid?
OK, I think it looks great, don't get me wrong.
But it retails for what, around $600? Then they have these fake ones for about $200 on eBay. I just can't imagine why someone hasn't made them from the same crappy material that GReddy made their ver7 lip - you know the stuff that cracks when you look at it? On a front lip that stuff is useless, but for a rear lip it'd be great. If shops can sell the GReddy lip for $160, I wonder what these less complicated and smaller trunk spoilers could sell for. I can't see how a replica of this sort would be 25% more than a genuine GReddy front lip. Am I missing something? Its not like the market for these is jumping either...
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But it retails for what, around $600? Then they have these fake ones for about $200 on eBay. I just can't imagine why someone hasn't made them from the same crappy material that GReddy made their ver7 lip - you know the stuff that cracks when you look at it? On a front lip that stuff is useless, but for a rear lip it'd be great. If shops can sell the GReddy lip for $160, I wonder what these less complicated and smaller trunk spoilers could sell for. I can't see how a replica of this sort would be 25% more than a genuine GReddy front lip. Am I missing something? Its not like the market for these is jumping either...
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04-05-2005, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Aegon
The replica makers had big problems with yield and fitment.
I guess they are easy to make, but hard to make right.
I guess they are easy to make, but hard to make right.
People. I swear.
04-05-2005, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by gruppe-s
sure, if you can find at least 100 confirm buyers, then it will be possible. Its not hard to make. Its the tooling charges that cost a lot of money ($3k-4K) per mold.
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ok, ok , smart alec remarks aside...
Say I instamagically found 100 people, what sorta cost would everyone else
be looking at? How long a wait after commiting would we be looking at?jason
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04-05-2005, 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted by mmboost
People. I swear.
Lots of pissed off people there, I'm sure part of it is due to a vendor who didn't know what was up.
Still, you asked a question (which you later revealed was rhetorical) and I told you what I had heard.
04-06-2005, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Aegon
Look, I'm just repeating what I've read....
Lots of pissed off people there, I'm sure part of it is due to a vendor who didn't know what was up
Lots of pissed off people there, I'm sure part of it is due to a vendor who didn't know what was up
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04-06-2005, 01:38 PM
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Its cool mmboost, I just had my hackles raised after the response to my suggestion that KT wasn't safe for work. I guess some people have pinups calendars on their desks and they don't like the idea that we all don't work in a garage. I just hadn't taken off my flame suit yet.
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