I think you need to reread my post. You obviously have trouble seeing the difference between a company designing their own products, and then making them in China and selling them through normal retail channels with real support and warranty (ipod for instance) vs. what is going on here where a company is stealing anothers designs and dumping it on ebay in a fake Rolex flea market way. If they want to design their own headers and sell them in a reputable way with support, I would not have one complaint. But then again the headers would cost a bit more too.
Are you willing to accept a set of Kooks made in China with no warranty or support?
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Originally Posted by axis
Go back and read your posts. While you apparently have no problem with buying cheap chinese knock offs of american products at Wally world, you do have a problem with headers? Is it a fair comparison? I guess that depends on what you sell. Where do you draw the line? If you just wanted everyone to know how and where these are made, that's fine. Coming back over and over to hammer it in is something different. No one comes into the ARH, Kooks, etc threads to say they are overpriced and perform no better than the cheap knockoffs. I'm not debating whether this is ethical or not, just wondering why people jump in these threads in order to make the reviewers come across as unamerican. I think we all got where and how these are made in the first 5 threads on them.  This is the same crap that came up when Pacesetter put out their headers. You could put out the mild steel arguement to discount those. I think the heat is on now that 304SS headers have hit the market for half the price of other well known headers. In the end, it's the end consumers $$ and they will spend it how they wish. |