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vendor wars - the saga continues?

To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: vendor wars - the saga continues?
From: "sidney raper" <spl310@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:45:29 -0400
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
http://www.geocities.com/roadsternut/index.html






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