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Originally Posted by Green Arrow
All of the posts in here "I'd front the 300k to do it, but ROI isnt there"; No.
You dont have the money, if you did you could wait the approx. 3-4 years to make the PROFITZZ.
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Sorry, I have the money but I'm not going to spend $300k to wait 3-4 years to see what happens.
I've done enough S-chassis parts business over the last 20 years (probably somewhere in the neighborhood of around $3-5M sales attributed to me directly on/off over that time period) to know what works and what doesn't.
What works is me trying to source parts from vendors without a MOQ or tooling investment on my part. I've been able to source some parts, but bricks are elusive. My next step is to try to go direct to Nissan's 3rd party factory that used to make the brick headlights, and see if they are willing to make an unbranded "generic" brick headlight using the original mold/tooling. If I can bypass the traditional route it would be a much faster process without the need to front so much money... but part of the problem is that a lot of these Japanese companies will not take meetings without a trusted person introducing, and they also won't take meetings virtually (i.e. I have to go in person). It's all dragging out unnecessarily...
$300k investment isn't the issue, it's inventory turnover. I can sell nothing but S13 Power Braces (and a bunch of other random parts like glass S14 headlights) for the next 3-4 years and turn over $300k much, much faster than waiting for replica S13 brick headlights to show up.
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