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Re: vendor wars - the saga continues?

To: "sidney raper" <spl310@hotmail.com>, <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: vendor wars - the saga continues?
From: "Richard Brown" <reblues@reblues.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:51:37 -0400
Damn it man!!   Well said!

Richard


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sidney raper" <spl310@hotmail.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:45 PM
Subject: vendor wars - the saga continues?


> If this has been rehashed to death, delete this.  Since I am on digest, I
> get the stuff after the fact...
>
> Eric, I don't think that Gerardo's comments were intended as a slam
against
> Stan.  True, there seems to be a bit of animosity there at times, but here
> is what I can throw into the mix.  The OEM shift plate was the "tin foil"
> type while Stan's product is a much better than OEM piece as it is
thicker.
> I know because I bought one of those.  So, I think that you were reading
> into that statement that Gerardo was trying to slam Stan.  I don't see
that.
>   Now, Gerardo did mention that his is a significant savings from the
others
> that have been offered on the list.  That probably was aimed at Stan's
> product as a point of information about the value proposition of each.  I
> don't see that as a slam, but as price competition among vendors.  There
may
> have been other vendors that offered those items, but I am not aware of
any.
>
> As I said above, I bought one of Stan's, so I can speak to the quality of
> it.  It is fine.  I have not seen Gerardo's, but knowing what a stickler
> Gerardo is with regards to his reproduced items (license trims, grill
> mounts, solex linkage, shift boots, etc.) I am sure that his is also a
fine
> product.
>
> I guess my point is that no matter what vendor posts, someone will see it
as
> a slam or an attempt to be a flame war.  That is unfortunate because if we
> (the list) blast them for announcing that they have a new product, then we
> (the roadster community) are running off the very vendors that we NEED to
> get products to keep our cars on the road.
>
> Personally, I don't have a problem buying what I need from whichever
vendor
> that has it.  If I get the option of choosing, I will shop for quality,
> value and price.  If a vendor lets me know that he/she has something, it
may
> be something that I did not realize that I needed until they posted, so I
> want to see those posts!
>
> Just my comments from the peanut gallery...
>
> Sidney Raper
> 1964 1500 (still a project.... sigh....)
> 1967 SRL311 00076 (alive again!)
> Jacksonville Florida






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