[Roadsters] Electronic Distributor on Ebay

[tputland at charter.net]

I seem to remember reading somewhere that ebay has a complaint section for copied material or something along the lines of this string's subject matter.... 

Maybe Gary should look into that and get the other guy's auction pulled? 

You have time for this, right Gary? ;-)

Tim
Belleville, WI.
'70 SPL AND SRL
Still clueless but always learning

---- "gregs672liter at netzero.net" <gregs672liter at netzero.net> wrote: 
> I just want to say that I think Gary handled this very nicely, instead of
> flaming the "other guy".  It would be nice if the "other guy", who I would
> imagine is a Roadster person, would create his own documentation instead of
> copying the efforts of Gary... documents that take time, effort and thought to
> get right.  My friend Bill Beaubier and I did our own electronic dizzy back in
> 1988 after seeing one at Shasta done by a guy from the Napa Valley, and we
> always tried to give him credit even though I couldn't remember his name
> (thus, "the guy from Napa Valley").  Competition and free market is part of
> the American way, but so is respect for the efforts of others... at least I
> would hope so.  Just my 2 cents...
> Greg Burrows
> 67 2000
> Fired now by a re-done, custom curved to deal with 11.7 to 1 compression Gary
> B dizzy...
> 
> -- tminerpcav at aol.com wrote:
> FYI
> 
> 
> 
> I bought one of the?distributor from the "other guy", and it works GREAT!?He
> may not be able to spell?as well as others, but he sure knows how to build a
> stealth electronic distributor.?
> 
> 
> 
> It looks completely stock and my 67.5 2000 has never run better.
> 
> 
> 
> Tim Miner
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Boone <gboone70 at yahoo.com>
> To: Datsun Roadsters <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 9:29 pm
> Subject: [Roadsters] Electronic Distributor on Ebay
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi roadster fans,
> I just want to inform everyone that there are 2 EI
> distributors on Ebay
> right now. One is mine, which I put up for auction
> last night, and
> coincidentally there is another one put up a few
> minutes later that has
> a description that has been essentially copied either
> from one of my
> previous auctions or from one of the website
> descriptions of my EI
> distributor.  I don't have a patent on this EI
> distributor conversion
> but the other guy's distributor is a very different
> distributor from an
> earlier Nissan A series engine. His might work great,
> but I don't want
> anyone to think it's mine.  I've never advertised my
> very few Bay
> auctions for my EI distributor on this list.  The one
> I have up now on
> Ebay is a very nice one, suitable for a show car, with
> mostly new parts.
> It's Ebay item # 280144811335
> 
> The other one is item # 280144962163
> 
> I would have been OK with this if the guy hadn't used
> most of my
> description.  The guy can't even spell the words
> "Electronic
> Distributor" in his item description.
> 
> You be the judge.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gary Boone