Originally Posted by Econ (Post 1225725)

im tired, and dont feel like reading all that, so ill assume it is dilligent.

....well said, rep for you!

Originally Posted by TypeOne (Post 1225653)

If you can't afford to buy nice parts(*regardless of what type of car you drive*) then you shouldn't buy anything. (in my opinion, of course)

I know guys with Honda Civic's that save their money and spend it on a $1500 front bumper, just because they want high quality, nice stuff.

Quality is quality, regardless of what you are buying for. I bought a $50 iPhone case yesterday because the $10 case was a cheap piece of china crap. (even though they looked the same)

Selling or buying fake, copied parts will only HURT our industry. Obviously some companies get offended when this fact is brought up because they try to make it seem ok.

The argument "hey, who needs to pay all this money for the same parts" isn't going to work. You pay for so much more when you buy an authentic part.

If you (and not you personally) have a successful company selling knock offs, why don't you try to be original and let other people copy you? Tell me how that goes.

:ugh2:

Originally Posted by Jamaica@UAMotorsports (Post 1225764)

How about you ask Shine Auto?
You dont pay for so much more. The Authentic part has flaws and errors. JDM parts are not always perfect. Buying fake, hurts the JDM community but the American community benefits. IF Companies were willing to go half way then we wouldnt have issues with replicas simple. I can say this, When I bought my Authentic kit from a vendor on here, total jerks about the whole procedure. Thankfully another vendor (Amplified Motorsports) were able to help out with the second one. I mean imagine spending 10k on kits and they fit like crap? tell me is that money well spent?

Originally Posted by TypeOne (Post 1225768)

Is that the kit you bought to copy?

Originally Posted by 370Ztune (Post 1225611)

The problem is they don't just lose profit from one sale, it's more like 20, 30, 40 or even more in some cases; it all starts with just 1.

Regarding the 10% of value comment, does that logic extend to other parts as well because Work Wheels aren't cheap!

Originally Posted by TypeOne (Post 1225653)

If you can't afford to buy nice parts(*regardless of what type of car you drive*) then you shouldn't buy anything. (in my opinion, of course)

I know guys with Honda Civic's that save their money and spend it on a $1500 front bumper, just because they want high quality, nice stuff.

Quality is quality, regardless of what you are buying for. I bought a $50 iPhone case yesterday because the $10 case was a cheap piece of china crap. (even though they looked the same)

Selling or buying fake, copied parts will only HURT our industry. Obviously some companies get offended when this fact is brought up because they try to make it seem ok.

The argument "hey, who needs to pay all this money for the same parts" isn't going to work. You pay for so much more when you buy an authentic part.

If you (and not you personally) have a successful company selling knock offs, why don't you try to be original and let other people copy you? Tell me how that goes.

:ugh2:

Originally Posted by docaam (Post 1225960)

I bought Shineauto replica amuse to save 3500$ and it was worth it, fitment was spot on:tup:

I will say again if you guys feel to support feel free to buy original, for me it was a waste of money just for the bodykit, mainly talking about quality replica body parts, for performance side there shouldnt be any compromise.

Originally Posted by Raizon (Post 1226017)

I wonder how many people would actually buy the authentic Amuse kit if no replica exist in this world. I can't imagine it being a whole lot more then they have sold now.

I bet most people would never even consider getting a body kit if they had to spend $6k+ on any authentic kit so even if replicas doesn't exist, JDM wouldn't necessarily be getting that much more orders on their kit.

Buy a replica wheel and they will eventually find out how bad they are versus the authentic wheel. But when replica kits are getting same or better fitments than the authentic kit, then its even harder to justify spending more on the real kit.

Like most people said, pricing needs to be more reasonable in this economy or its too hard for most people to justify spending that much money on a kit.

Originally Posted by haddy98 (Post 1224723)

Hey guys. I just want to ask your opinions about replica kits. I'm planning to get a replica body kit. What do you think about it? The ori is way too expensive for me. What is the difference between the replica and the ori?

Thanks in advanced

Originally Posted by kenchan (Post 1226023)

Yah but coming from a guy that cant make up his mind doing all the different faux (or watever) kits, vinyls, and paints I'm saving hell of a lot more money on buying just the originals I wanted for my car and keeping them. And I can bet you that my car runs better than yours like how a real Z was meant to be. Not just a pinup girl. :D

Main issue with you is you seem to lack focus and spend on all kinds of stuff that can probably buy a second Z or a higher performance car. That's a much bigger waste of money to me. :icon17: but it is entertaining to watch how your car transforms. :tup:

Originally Posted by de_dust (Post 1226150)

dude give it a break. u just coming out as a douche. each person has the right to buy whatever they want with their money and you have to accept how it is. if u really care about the original manf, why don't you just contact them and report. their IP is the only thing they can use to protect themselves, and it would be easy for them to enforce. maybe this is the reason why we are not seeing Zele kit replicas. they can at least force some of these companies to get a license agreement with them (which can be an advantage for one of these companies doing replicas because it will corner the US market for them).

it doesn't appear that amuse care anyways, or else they would have taken action already. they're probably thinking its free advertisement for them.

props to these companies providing replicas/CF versions for having good quality, which is really the only concern for replicas.