Annual Alpina Kopi Wheel (Classic Replica) Group Buy - Delivery late May

[thedeal]

Hello Mel - Out of all the Wheel Manufactures that there is, Only one will talk to you? I would think if you had a well put together Sales Proposal / Contract and sent it to ALL of them that you would get a reply from the ones that's interested. What happened to the Original Manufacture? If not enough profit is in it for you from them then just raise the dam price and we will choose to pay it or not. Tell us what they are wanting from you in order for them to make the wheels? We want the dam wheels and getting tired of this waiting game, with no updates unless we ask for it. I have worked with a lot of contracts negotiations, Company's do not put Proposals on the back burners when they could be making money and expanding their business.

+1! Frequent and up-front updates will be the only thing keeping me in this group buy if things continue.

[Philo]

And it's not like it takes weeks for a pigeon to fly across the atlantic and deliver a message. Last time I checked the business world moves quick. How much thumb twiddling is there in the wheel production world?

[SickE30]

Why not get an American wheel manufacturer? If the cost is greater for production, I'm sure the shipping cost would offset the difference in price. And you would look like you were running a more ethical business. After reading this thread I as a consumer would be hesitant at best to do business with your company.

[Philo]

Why not get an American wheel manufacturer? If the cost is greater for production

Entirely untrue. It would cost a shit ton more to make them in the US. I'm still hoping Mel can pull through and redeem himself.

[thedeal]

entirely untrue. It would cost a shit ton more to make them in the us. I'm still hoping mel can pull through and redeem himself.

+1

[Danny]

Is it too late to get in on this?

[ck_taft325is]

The question is, do you really want too??

I would love a set, but this looks like a fiasco. Not any one singular person to blame, from what I've read, but I can't justify paying for something and not seeing it for potentially 3+ months.

Good luck, hope everything works out.

[Danny]

Waiting for Mel to chime in.

[BMWE34M5]

We're not taking any more orders for the wheels until we know the status of our existing order's production date.

Waiting for Mel to chime in.

[VacMan]

Over a month since the last update. Is there anyone left in this thing?

[BMWE34M5]

We have a factory that is interested in producing the wheels.
I am waiting for a sample.

[csermonet47]

I would be interested in a set if things finally get rolling.

[thedeal]

...Just my luck, I pull out at the last minute...

[pdxsdo]

I might be interested in a GB if one got rolling.

[VacMan]

...Just my luck, I pull out at the last minute...

I think that was a good move on your part.

Do you ever notice how he logs into R3V every day but doesn't update this or the Lowtec thread until someone calls him out on it, and then gives vague answers without any concrete proof of who he's talking to or what's going on? I do, and I'm thankful that I don't have any money tied up in anything he's involved with.