[TR] Guys - contact me before bidding on Tr-man items on eBay

[Bob Danielson]

Frank............ Rick Patton had the exact same problem with his Fan 
Eliminator Kit. I don't remember the guy's eBay name but he basically took 
Rick's kit, copied it exactly and sells it for a few bucks less. I'm all for 
new creative products but if you're going to steal someone's idea, at least 
make an attempt to improve on the original concept. One of the things I 
respect about Rick is that he will not make a product that someone else is 
already selling, even if it's Moss or TRF. Too bad everyone doesn't have 
that integrity.

And Frank.............. that fuel blanking plate was for the TR6 too!  You 
can see Frank's stuff here:  http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org/FrankFisher.htm

Bob Danielson
1975 TR6 CF38503U
Running w/ Throttle Body Injection,
Toyota 5 speed & Nissan LSD
http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org

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From: "Frank Fisher" <yellowtr3 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 12:13 PM
To: "Tom Deutsch" <tdskip at yahoo.com>
Cc: <Triumphs at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] Guys - contact me before bidding on Tr-man items on  eBay

> I think this is one of the great reasons for the list.
> Our reproduction parts
> are made mainly in Asia because they are the only one's who will make 
> small
> quantity runs at a reasonable price. But along with that comes occasional 
> poor
> quality. And we need to keep each other informed when a really bad batch 
> comes
> along.
> And then there are the individuals who do not act like gentlemen. And
> we donbt need to keep our hurt limited to the big 3.
> I worked with Bob
> Danielson a couple of years ago and did some custom CNC machine work for 
> him.
> With his encouragement I started to make miscellaneous parts for triumphs. 
> One
> was a fuel pump blank off plate for the TR3/4 motors. None had ever been 
> made
> before. It took careful measuring, machining, re-measuring and fine 
> tuning,
> before finally going into production.
> I sold them on eBay and made a little
> money. Probably a few hundred bucks.
> So this one guy buys one from me
> (charger440rt). And a week later he is selling them on eBay for 5.00 less 
> than
> me.
> When I suggested to him nicely that this was not gentlemanly behavior he
> wrote back with a nasty abusive email and threatened to sue me!
> He is still
> trying to sell my design. What aB bum he is.
> he also sells other triumph
> related stuff, and i often wonder where he steals those parts from.
> Letbs
> not let cads off easily. I say we tell it like it is.
> Frank
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> I invested about 4 hours in the measurement
> and planning.
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