Billetflow Copied Again

[The Pun]

I got an e-mail the other day from Steeda with this new copied product in it:
http://www.steeda.com/PR/Products/555-8118/555-8118.htm

I e-mailed Doug about it right away and he posted this:
http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150113

see thread for more details:
http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150401

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[Wiked03]

Fricken bastards.

 

[hj16]

LOL, those welds are horrible. I hate cheap theiving low quality bastards and their products. aka UPR, Steeda, Motoblue and LFP.

 

[Mystic Terminator]

That thing is ugly.

 

[The Pun]

Here is the response to the e-mail I sent Steela.
____________________________________________________
Jeff:

Not sure where you got your information. However, when I came to Steeda Autosports last year I brought with me 40 years of racing experience and a large collection of parts that I have designed and raced over the years. Although I cannot say for sure, since I did not know everyone at the dragstrip in Baytown that Saturday night in 1999 when we broke the first IRS assembly, but I am very sure no one from any company, including Billetflow, was in my shop when I designed and built the first one of these IRS braces that next week.

Regards,
William

William R. Mathis
V.P. Manufacturing and Engineering
954-718-6500
www.steeda.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Gus Irizarry
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 8:20 AM
To: William Mathis; Dario Orlando
Subject: FW: IRS Brace


-----Original Message-----
To: [email protected]
Subject: IRS Brace

Why would you copy a product that someone else developed? You should have gotten permission or just distributed his product which is way better than your copy. Billetflow developed and made this unit and you stole it.

You companies new name is officially Steela on all the Mustang Forums. Actions like this will do nothing but hurt your rep and cause us to avoid your other products.

 

[gnxs]

What a bullshit response. Yea, I'm sure it took them 5 years to get it to market too, since it's such a complex piece of engineering.

 

[Flyn]

Because William may have built some kind of brace in 1999, he claims now that he didn't copy this one from Doug. One look at the Steeda brace tells me it's a poorly made copy. Hey, Doug's is cheaper anyways so hopefully he gets everyone's business.

Edit- I just sent them a similar E-mail. Let's see what they say.

 

[Wharf Rat]

There is not a knowledgable person on the planet that would spend the same ammount of money, let alone MORE, on that piece of shit over the Billetflow peice.

Go Doug. :hail:

STEELA is right, I will never buy anything from them theives.

 

[I love RC]

check with brent on the site, i think he had problems with them too

 

[Flyn]

Because William may have built some kind of brace in 1999, he claims now that he didn't copy this one from Doug. One look at the Steeda brace tells me it's a poorly made copy. Hey, Doug's is cheaper anyways so hopefully he gets everyone's business.

Edit- I just sent them a similar E-mail. Let's see what they say.

Update- No response from Steeda to the E-mail I sent. Maybe they are sick of people mentioning the fact that they copied it?

 

[The Pun]

I think so, they lowered the price big time.

Update- No response from Steeda to the E-mail I sent. Maybe they are sick of people mentioning the fact that they copied it?

 

[ShelbyGuy]

doug didnt come up with this

he bought it from mark

 

[The Pun]

I know, but Steeda still sucks.

doug didnt come up with this

he bought it from mark

 

[Flyn]

I think so, they lowered the price big time.

It's really interesting to get these inside looks at companies you see in the magazines. Doug really one upped them when he lowered his price.

 

[Mystic Terminator]

Steeda dropped thier price to $129.00. With SCMC or SVTOA discount it would be $116.10 + shipping. I still like the BF one better.