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Old Jul 21, 2004 | 10:25 AM
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Old Jul 21, 2004 | 11:42 AM
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neato. they should help... I'm not sure to what extent. I would love to try them out.

I wonder if you would need more than just front and rear tie bars to make a noticeable difference; But who knows... 150 isn't too bad of a price for the front AND rear.

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Old Jul 21, 2004 | 01:10 PM
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neato. they should help... I'm not sure to what extent. I would love to try them out.

I wonder if you would need more than just front and rear tie bars to make a noticeable difference; But who knows... 150 isn't too bad of a price for the front AND rear.

$150.00

That price is WAY OVER PRICED!! Looking at it from a manufacturing point of view. My friend who owns his own factory manufactures Front strut bars and rear lower tie bars for Honda/Acura and Mitsubishi. Your talking way more metal than this and their cost on it is like $2.00. Keep in mind they do Volume, but even a good front strut bar and rear tie bar (honda speaking) is cheaper or about $150.00 I hate how manufactures like to JACK people because of the value of the car... You ever wonder how headers on a Mustang or even a Camaro are like $300.00 for both and I have seen them even cheaper at times compared to Z headers going for like $600+. IM sorry but I wouldn't pay $150.00 for those little tie bars, were just used to paying so much money that when you see something cool, I have to admit they look cool and for $150.00 automatically you think CHEAP! but reality is thats way over priced. Something like that shouldn't cost that much... even if its for front and rear...
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Old Jul 21, 2004 | 01:20 PM
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Well... would your friend like to manufacture front and rear lower arm bars?
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Old Jul 21, 2004 | 02:10 PM
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Well... would your friend like to manufacture front and rear lower arm bars?
Sure!! Just give me a sample and he will duplicated it.. I showed him the picture and said if made about 100 of them would cost like $5.00 each and if just made like 1-10 would be like $30.00 each. So the more the better
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Old Jul 21, 2004 | 02:16 PM
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Eh, that means I'd have to buy the set in the first place. Why doesn't your friend buy a set, duplicate it, and sell it on here for $50/set. He'd make a killing. I wish I had the facilities to do something like this.
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Old Jul 21, 2004 | 03:03 PM
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Wheres the group buy?


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Old Jul 21, 2004 | 03:08 PM
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Eh, that means I'd have to buy the set in the first place. Why doesn't your friend buy a set, duplicate it, and sell it on here for $50/set. He'd make a killing. I wish I had the facilities to do something like this.

Because he doesn't do that nor cares for this market... He just manufactures parts for people period. He has over 1,000 products that he manufactures for different types of people why would he want to make $40.00 on an item when he gets orders of over 100,000 dollars and makes a killing on profit. Now if you wanted to do that I can give you his phone number and you can negotiate with him. He does private label for a few big motorsports companies out there that we buy parts from but its all propriatery so no need to discuss private stuff on the net. Lets just say he can make anything you wanted including WHEELS! They do Forging, Stamping, machining, injection molding, extrusion, casting, textile... etc...

His stocking warehouse is 50,000sqft

Trust me, this is cake for him... IM sure if you talk to him the price will go down, it all depends how many your willing to make..
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Old Jul 21, 2004 | 03:13 PM
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I'll try to get some kind of GB going...

wicked; if he sold 30 sets on here @ 40 profit, thats $1200 profit for doing a job that he would consider "cake". I wish I could make $1200 "easy as cake". Ask him about it, he may be interested.

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I'll try to get some kind of GB going...

wicked; if he sold 30 sets on here @ 40 profit, thats $1200 profit for doing a job that he would consider "cake". I wish I could make $1200 "easy as cake". Ask him about it, he may be interested.

It kinda sucks I know what you mean, but the effort/time invested to do this would cost him more money than the profit. Just imagined you have about over 1,000 products manufacturing for people and to say the least he makes anywhere from as little as a few cents to thousands per product. If you had $1,000 products and say each person gave you an order of 100pcs which is very small he gets orders for bigger qnty but im just keeping it very low... That's 100,000 pcs he is making.. say he only made $1.00 on each item and like I said it vary's from item some are even hundreds per piece that's 100,000 of income! $1,200 is chump change for him it may seem like a lot for us and not doing nothing but for him its not worth it.. Just like they said if Bill Gates saw a $100.00 bill on the floor and he bent down to pick it up he would lose more money by doing that. That's how much that fool makes!! But like I said if you are interested let me know...
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Old Jul 21, 2004 | 07:56 PM
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Is he hiring?
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