No more turbo logo's period!

[Gmachine]

While at B.G. I found out that we have a vendor spoiling everthing. He has informed GM as to all the vendors who are not licesnsed! This is about everybody! Kirban can't even sell the turbo six sunvisor stickers! In order to be licesned, you must pay $2500/year, 5% of what is forcast to sell along with sending a sample of each item into GM(without return) for them to approve it. Then buy all the holigram official stickers! So no longer can you buy any embriodered shirts, jackets, hats, etc. for all our great vendors. This is sad! We already have such a small following and could only handle a small # of product. It wouldn't be cost effective to produce the amount that someone big would take on the job. It's just sad that someone had to go to these measures to keep some business. Not to mention, everything they sell is high $$$$! The stiching on their embroidery looks like a$$. To all vendors that haven't gotten a letter, beware! It's probably in the mail!

If anyones interested, I do have the email address. You could send him a nice little email.

Ryan

 

[Two Lane]

Thanks for letting us know!

 

[Vendor Defendor]

who is this vendor? we should boycott them from being jerks...

-Neil

 

[Gmachine]

Don't worry, he also carries Olds and Pontiac stuff, so I'm sure they'll all be complaining too! I'd be embarassed to put their Hurst Olds logo in a nice car. $35 for polo shirts, $13 for a patch, $13 for key chains. It's just said that he has the market cornered with such limited product line. I doubt he plans on making everthing we were once able to buy cheap.

 

[Gmachine]

Oh yeah, GM even sent a letter to Molly!(the GN designer) The one thing GM never got rights to is the GNX logo. Anyone can make all they want of it! I guess we'll just have a lot more clones. It just sucks that you can buy a new interior minus head reest because of the logo 6.

 

[86brick]

So who is this vendor? If you don't want to post it on here email me or PM me because I would really like to know!!!!!

 

[86brick]

BTW, the vendors could always just say to GM that they are selling Jiffy Lube logo stickers

 

[NASSTY]

Is this what your looking for?

http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=75420

 

[86brick]

AV68U, check your PMs, but yeah this is old news from the looks of it...... Oh well!

 

[86brick]

Well after reading that thread it appears that all of us shouldn't jump to conclusions about the vendor in question and he is a member so maybe he will chime in and tell his side of the story....

 

[NASSTY]

Originally posted by 86brick
Well after reading that thread it appears that all of us shouldn't jump to conclusions about the vendor in question and he is a member so maybe he will chime in and tell his side of the story....

I doubt it he never replied to the other thread to confirm anything or to defend himself.86brick you are right he is a member,in more ways than one.

 

[86brick]

To tell you the truth I can kind of see where he's coming from and IMHO it won't help any of us to bash him because like it or not he is a vendor and sells a good amount of stuff for our cars and for that I respect him.... It sounds like he just wanted to do things the right way and as a result GM found out that some vendors where making a buck without paying them a dime.... I don't really think he intended to do this to some of the vendors, but it happened and sh!t happens in life that you can't predict!!! I still think the vendors will make T-shirts, hats, and all the other stuff they make, but just in "other" ways....

 

[86brick]

Originally posted by 2NASSTYBUICKS
I doubt it he never replied to the other thread to confirm anything or to defend himself.

Umm,
Yes he did on page three of that thread you posted at the very bottom....

 

[equalizer442]

dude, that guy sucks. kinda makes you wonder with the limited number of us dwiendleing every day just when will we not be able to buy parts for our cars. i plan on using mine as a daily driver until the day i die so i see several rebuilds in my future and im not looking forward to being forced to use a chevy 350.

 

[86brick]

Originally posted by equalizer442
dude, that guy sucks. kinda makes you wonder with the limited number of us dwiendleing every day just when will we not be able to buy parts for our cars. i plan on using mine as a daily driver until the day i die so i see several rebuilds in my future and im not looking forward to being forced to use a chevy 350.

This issue has nothing to do with being forced to use a chevy 350 cause it's about using a power 6 logo! As far as our numbers dwindling I tend to disagree since there are still a good amount vendors making parts and vendors such as TA Performance stepping up to the plate to make newer better parts so there still must be a good interest in our cars and I don't see it going anywhere because these cars have reached legendary status in the automotive performance car world and there are new people that enter the Turbo Buick community each day by buying a TR/TTA from somebody else.... Maybe I'm just an optimist and NOT a pessimist, but a positive attitude does nothing but good IMO

 

[Two Lane]

HOPEFULLY...

Hopefully, someone like Year One will have a full TR/GN line one day soon.

 

[86brick]

Re: HOPEFULLY...

Originally posted by Two Lane
Hopefully, someone like Year One will have a full TR/GN line one day soon.

I think it's bound to happen cause our numbers can't be much if any worse than some of the other cars they have a full line of parts for....

Again I am an optimist, not to be confused with pessimist......

The glass is half full NOT half empty!

 

[TylerDurden]

jeez guys, just freakin say it, its JAX SEATCOVERS we are talking about....no reason to hide that.....


as far as the situation goes....i'd like to know if people like peachstate are now not allowed to sell die casts due to the center caps and whatnot having logo's on them....

 

[fubar2.5]

Originally posted by Gmachine
Oh yeah, GM even sent a letter to Molly!(the GN designer) The one thing GM never got rights to is the GNX logo. Anyone can make all they want of it! I guess we'll just have a lot more clones. It just sucks that you can buy a new interior minus head reest because of the logo 6.

I don't understand the headrest comment as I paid GM direct for the use of the power 6 logo on the headrest.T-shirts,keychains,jackets etc notwithstanding.

 

[fubar2.5]

Just to clarify-It's part of the car soaslong as it is in a GN it should be allright.