JamesDowning wrote:Haha... sounds like the standard response when real money enters the equation. We can speculate and send emails to suppliers asking for product... they produce something in your price point... and oh, nevermind. And we wonder why fender flare companies don't bend over backwards because they get 7 hits on facebook asking for TB flares?
Sorry... I'm a bit worn out and sour right now.
bartonmd wrote:JamesDowning wrote:Haha... sounds like the standard response when real money enters the equation. We can speculate and send emails to suppliers asking for product... they produce something in your price point... and oh, nevermind. And we wonder why fender flare companies don't bend over backwards because they get 7 hits on facebook asking for TB flares?
Sorry... I'm a bit worn out and sour right now.
LOL! Don't even get me started on that! There's a reason I require deposits before I order ANYTHING!
- "dood, I want ______ BAD! I wish somebody would make it! Why won't anybody make stuff for us?!?!"
= "Here's your product"
- "Sweet! It's on my list of things that I want to someday get, if I win the lottery! I just want products to be made so they can be on my list of things that I'd like to do to my _____ to make it more bad ass..."
8 rad skids and 6 bumpers... but EVERYBODY wants them! (just not now that they're actually available)
If I was a "real" supplier, the rad skids would be close to double what they are, and the bumpers would actually be double, and I'd still be on the cheaper end of the spectrum!
This is not this group in particular, either... It's pretty much most of the people on the Internet... Back when HID kits were $500, our bike forum hooked up with the south-Asian rep, and was getting them for $180 shipped... EVERYBODY on the W-body forum HAD TO HAVE them for that cheap (maybe, literally 30 people said they were "in"), so I contacted the same guy again, and did all the orchastrating involved in setting up a GB for HID kits on the W-body forum... Oh yeah... 2... Literally 2 people ponied up for them... The GB was open for 2 months, too, so it's not like nobody had money that week...
That's just the way business is in the Internet age... Companies these days take the number of requests they get for a product and divide by 5 or 10, and that's how many they hope to sell...
For the record, I'm not mad at anybody, here, at all! Money is tight right now, and everybody's got something else going on... Wife being out of work for almost 2 years, believe-you-me, I know!
Mike
bartonmd wrote:JamesDowning wrote:Haha... sounds like the standard response when real money enters the equation. We can speculate and send emails to suppliers asking for product... they produce something in your price point... and oh, nevermind. And we wonder why fender flare companies don't bend over backwards because they get 7 hits on facebook asking for TB flares?
Sorry... I'm a bit worn out and sour right now.
LOL! Don't even get me started on that! There's a reason I require deposits before I order ANYTHING!
- "dood, I want ______ BAD! I wish somebody would make it! Why won't anybody make stuff for us?!?!"
= "Here's your product"
- "Sweet! It's on my list of things that I want to someday get, if I win the lottery! I just want products to be made so they can be on my list of things that I'd like to do to my _____ to make it more bad ass..."
8 rad skids and 6 bumpers... but EVERYBODY wants them! (just not now that they're actually available)
If I was a "real" supplier, the rad skids would be close to double what they are, and the bumpers would actually be double, and I'd still be on the cheaper end of the spectrum!
This is not this group in particular, either... It's pretty much most of the people on the Internet... Back when HID kits were $500, our bike forum hooked up with the south-Asian rep, and was getting them for $180 shipped... EVERYBODY on the W-body forum HAD TO HAVE them for that cheap (maybe, literally 30 people said they were "in"), so I contacted the same guy again, and did all the orchastrating involved in setting up a GB for HID kits on the W-body forum... Oh yeah... 2... Literally 2 people ponied up for them... The GB was open for 2 months, too, so it's not like nobody had money that week...
That's just the way business is in the Internet age... Companies these days take the number of requests they get for a product and divide by 5 or 10, and that's how many they hope to sell...
For the record, I'm not mad at anybody, here, at all! Money is tight right now, and everybody's got something else going on... Wife being out of work for almost 2 years, believe-you-me, I know!
Mike
mikepeters1983 wrote:while looking on Amazon I found this rear bumper. Has anyone seen this or heard of this before? if s\not will it work
http://www.amazon.com/Westin-21105-Fey- ... &sr=1-3216