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FE Power Forums => FE Technical Forum => Topic started by: 428kidd on April 12, 2024, 07:47:59 AM
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Good little video about what speedmaster products do...
https://youtu.be/9dsHrSq8pso
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Wow. Great share.....hope this gets seen far and wide.
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Thank you for this.
A lawsuit should be filed by Broader - copying a product is one thing - but then using a company logo on the copied part too?
Tells me everything I need to know about crapmaster products.
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Summit did reply directly to his video. I looked on their website and could not find it so they must have already pulled it. Which is good, but, give it a month and it will be available again without the Broader name.. It would not surprise me one bit if they literately grind off the name on current inventory and sell any way.
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There is a fact regarding thiefs.
A thief steals to gain.
Most of the time the theif steals to gain from a buyer.
This means the buyer is driving the theft market.
Take time to know what you are buying, know where it was designed and manufactured, and know whom you are purchasing from.
If you knowingly purchase knock off, stolen design/intellectual content, copied items, or just plain stolen items (hot parts) YOU are the problem driving the market and YOU are complicit in the illegal activities and downfall of the harmed parties.
Remove the gain for the thief and that theft is likely to diminish to almost nothing as the thief now only steals to serve himself, rather than serving a buying market.
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The audacity of them putting "Broader Performance" on their counterfeit product is likely because the counterfeiter was lazy. They likely used a 3D scanner and machined to data. Chinese machine shops don't understand English. I have received parts back with "Part Serial Number Here" milled into a surface instead of the serialized part number. It was pure laziness. I hate outsourcing machining to China, and have avoided it as far as my job would allow me to. I've gotten into heated arguments with executives (former employer, not current employer) over it. I like supporting local machine shops. They cost a little bit more but they will always stand by their workmanship, and you can communicate with them. Low-cost-country brokers may give you a tiny piece price but they charge you like mad for shipping, and God forbid you need to talk with a machinist or a part gets made wrong. All so that some pointless bean-counter can say "I saved the company $121.54 last year." I hate it.
Yes, I hope Broader sues them into oblivion.
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i try not to buy anything from china if I can.
After thinking about it for a while I have decided not to buy from company's who sell counterfeit parts- Jegs,Summit, Amazon etc.
There are a lot of company's in America who have ethics and are honest.
I know I don't spend enough to make a difference but I will feel better if I support American company's because these slimy lowlifes will drive the good ones out of business and we will just have junk available to us in the future.
Greg
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Agreed wished more people would try that and they wouldn't be out there making this stuff. Its consumer driven, as long is someone is out there looking to buy this stuff , in the name of saving a dollar then it will be out there.
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You will never stop it. All you can do is what is right for you.
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Just saw this.
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Good for Summit Racing for doing the right thing.
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Wow, good on them! A step in the right direction.
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Good for Summit.
I buy a lot from them and was getting ready to quit them like I have jeg's.
When they put all the innovative manufacture's out of business we will only have crap available to buy.
Greg
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Good to see Summit step up and do the right thing :)
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gregaba thats what happen to ebay nothing but import garbage.
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I haven't bought car parts or anything else from e bay or amazon since 2004.
Greg
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I take that back.
I bought a pair of NOS license plate lights for my 71 Ranchero about 5 years ago from ebay.
They are impossible to find and somebody sent me a link and I ordered them.
Don't want to come across as a liar.
Greg