I’m going to stand a fairly neutral ground here and post of my thoughts.
Yes, it sucks that for GAS that they didn’t get the sale, yes it sucks that GAS put time and energy into building a box that few bought, and yes it sucks that another guy is building a similar box.
This is modern business everyone. And I can appreciate the posters remark on not wanting to wait for a box to ship (or be built), and wanted it all done under one roof.
I can count on numerous fingers how many times I’ve looked at other products for inspiration only to develop my own. I’m not selling the darn things, but sometimes I want to do it myself (or have someone build a similar product) Engine mounts for instance, yes E30.de sells them, and not all of us want to wait a month – two months for mounts, so we build our own. 24V G260 transmission mounts, several guys sell them on r3v; I modified and built my own. Wiring harness adapters, I make my own.
Yes, GAS has tons of time into boxes, and tons of time into box design, but I have seen many others use PVC pipe to bring noise into a cabin, using MDF to build the box, etc.
Nobody has copyrighted a Subwoofer box. Yes it sucks, but hell, nobody has.
What it all boils down to is this. If I have an option to have something in 3 days, versus a month or two (again I don’t know what GAS stocks or does not) in many cases I’ll want to get it done sooner. However if I had the project planned, perhaps I would have ordered a box from GAS.
Quickly, everyone email Treehouse Racing, E30.de, and everyone else about me stealing their products. See? It does not work that way.
Personally I think going in here and flaming a user because he got inspiration from another product is wrong. Yep he sent over a photo of a Luke box and said, “pipe the audio in with PVC pipe”, so what? Should I be yelled at because I have built a ton of wiring harness adapters that happen to be the same thing that Treehouse makes?
I’ve known Luke for years, he makes great subwoofer boxes, I have two of them in my cars. For my E34 Touring I plan to build my own, why you may ask when he has built several for me in the past? Because I want to try it and see how well I do. Going to flame me because I didn’t buy one from GAS?
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Yes, it sucks that for GAS that they didn’t get the sale, yes it sucks that GAS put time and energy into building a box that few bought, and yes it sucks that another guy is building a similar box.
This is modern business everyone. And I can appreciate the posters remark on not wanting to wait for a box to ship (or be built), and wanted it all done under one roof.
I can count on numerous fingers how many times I’ve looked at other products for inspiration only to develop my own. I’m not selling the darn things, but sometimes I want to do it myself (or have someone build a similar product) Engine mounts for instance, yes E30.de sells them, and not all of us want to wait a month – two months for mounts, so we build our own. 24V G260 transmission mounts, several guys sell them on r3v; I modified and built my own. Wiring harness adapters, I make my own.
Yes, GAS has tons of time into boxes, and tons of time into box design, but I have seen many others use PVC pipe to bring noise into a cabin, using MDF to build the box, etc.
Nobody has copyrighted a Subwoofer box. Yes it sucks, but hell, nobody has.
What it all boils down to is this. If I have an option to have something in 3 days, versus a month or two (again I don’t know what GAS stocks or does not) in many cases I’ll want to get it done sooner. However if I had the project planned, perhaps I would have ordered a box from GAS.
Quickly, everyone email Treehouse Racing, E30.de, and everyone else about me stealing their products. See? It does not work that way.
Personally I think going in here and flaming a user because he got inspiration from another product is wrong. Yep he sent over a photo of a Luke box and said, “pipe the audio in with PVC pipe”, so what? Should I be yelled at because I have built a ton of wiring harness adapters that happen to be the same thing that Treehouse makes?
I’ve known Luke for years, he makes great subwoofer boxes, I have two of them in my cars. For my E34 Touring I plan to build my own, why you may ask when he has built several for me in the past? Because I want to try it and see how well I do. Going to flame me because I didn’t buy one from GAS?
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