Another happy customer!
A side note about the Evo community (spread this on the message boards please, since I’m not able to have the time to do it myself):
I’m extremely grateful for the support of this trunk project from MOST of the community. As readers of this blog already know, this trunk was one of the first products that Bulletproof invested in to develop. This trunk was never going to exist but we paid Do-Luck Japan’s R&D costs to build this trunk for us because we felt that the US market would enjoy it. And so far many people have!
At the same time there are still some people that just don’t get it…I just read 11 pages of posts on a message board about this particular client’s car and the trunk in particular. There were at least 5 people asking for someone to make a knockoff of the trunk. Are you serious? This trunk was not going to even exist because Do-Luck is already hurting from the knockoffs and they obviously don’t have the R&D budget to do so many new projects these days. I went ahead and helped them pay the expenses (removing their risk to make these trunks) just to have people ask for more knockoffs!? The Evo community needs to become more aware of what is going on with this industry and what these particular people are doing to it.
So let me state it clearly:
1. This trunk was not supposed to ever exist in the first place.
2. I went against my own better judgment and funded the R&D of this trunk because I believed in it after having great experiences with previous Do-Luck trunks.
3. We so far have sold 6 trunks with 4 more in stock of our original 10pc order. This is after 6 or so months or so.
4. If we sell all 10 trunks then we get closer to breaking even after the expense for Do-Luck to make the molds for us on this product.
5. Only 6 trunks sold so far and the Evo Community is already asking for knockoffs of this trunk!? Are you serious…
And people wonder why I think manufacturing in this industry is a bad idea when there are people like this out there…here is your answer.
If a knockoff comes out for that trunk, I guarantee the Evo community that we will not be funding any more development in the future.
Seriously…you guys want to save 20% so badly that you’ll destroy this industry and be left nothing but half-assed junk to mod your car with!? You can have it.
