dizzariot

Dude, yes. This isn't supposed to be a hate group for normal people. Only the extreme cases in an attempt to prevent them from becoming the norm.

This guy gets it.

This x678,567,236,989.

This is what I was hoping this thread would turn into. Thanks guys.

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bigs

A new challenger has appeared!

Vertex badge listed on their site for $50 a pair.

http://www.vicelifestyles.com/produc...edition-badges

When you can buy them all day long for under $10.



Here's another ridiculous mark up on an item that is readily available - Origin Labo coveralls listed for $300!

http://www.vicelifestyles.com/produc...labo-shop-suit

They can be purchased new for ~$118.

Jo_Galezo

Brb, gonna open up a new ig & sell these 100x marked up


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jumpman2334

60 god damn dollars for some bolts with plastic in them?!


EDIT: damn you zilvia for not letting me post it in all caps. rest assured fellow zilvians that I typed it in all caps to convey my disbelief.

!Zar!

I can't see your pic because you're using broken ass photobucket.

But, if those badges are $10, and they are being shipped in an envelope over seas, that's about $30.

$10 + $30 = $40, quick maths.
The end seller is making $10 over list price.

Now we haven't factored in shipping from vertex to the destination in Japan, pre-shipping. Nor are we even considering if there is a broker involved.

So how much are they really making over a savy buyer getting it direct?

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!Zar!

Now if you want a shop which is blatantly taking advantage, it would be Central Pine.

They sell items as if they are being custom made in house, when in reality they are listings from off of YAJ. So you WILL be strung along as you wait for them to come from JDM land to you (via dropship).

https://www.centralpine-usa.com/prod...tom-headlights

These headlights can be had for about $500 on YAJ. No they aren't custom. They are a dime a dozen. Yet Central Pine is notorious for posting up indicating they are, "Custom", or "one-off".

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jumpman2334

Central Pine is a joke. I wrote them about a year ago asking about t demand spindle shortening services. after I found out what it was going to run me, he proceeded to tell me that no one else can do it as good as t demand any anything else is downright dangerous. 4 to 6 weeks later I see he listed a set of shortened spindles on his IG that he obviously pulled from YAJ. I sent him a DM and he couldn't even tell me how much they were shortened...


they also recently started 'modifying' lexus subframes for super low guys. I send him another DM asking what exactly is done as this is something I have not heard of for the IS/GS (outside of one-off stuff). he told me he doesn't have any pix or cannot explain what he does because he hasn't done one yet. LOLOLOLOL

bigs

They aren't buying them direct from Vertex. They aren't $10 (which is shown in my sweet photobucket pic). Also, since when does it cost $30 to send an envelope?

They buy parts in bulk. Emblems don't add weight, so they are shipping for free essentially.

It's a stupid mark up on a $5 badge. Anyway, that was just a small example. The Origin coveralls are the real crime.

dizzariot

Dude that fucking asshole that wrote the article in the OP drives an LS. Maybe they're more cancerous than us hahahaha.

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mogli9000

Yaj sellers have adjusted their pricing to fuck boi high levels.

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Jo_Galezo

Umm....


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tuzzio

Fuck that 1K for my silvia louvers, i'll take 3k

!Zar!

Asking and getting are two completely different things.


I can to the FS section right now and price my car at $100k.

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jumpman2334

ouch that stings.

dizzariot

The part where a community might be worse than ours? I know. We worked hard for it :/

OT:

$3.5K for louvers. Post the seller.

*EDIT:

Found them on eBay. It's for a set of all three items and that's the max bid...however he's still asking $1K for just the louvers in a separate posting (before shipping). Items are from Thailand.

I've always wanted the 180SX knee pads (insert dick jokes here...in my mouth) but the prices are fucking ridiculous.

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Almighty So

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p578586429


More than doubled :/

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silviamang

Lol, its so bad.

!Zar!

Then buy these ones?
http://zilvia.net/f/showthread.php?t...light=Knee+pad

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Almighty So

^
@silviamang hahah I didn’t wanna totally put him on blast but I figured everyone knows who I was referring to. Contemplated buying it from YAJ but pretty crusty. Feel bad for the dude who instantly sent a pm to buy it lol.

I give up. Buy and sell whatever. Get your money if they buy.

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Upgarage says to resellers

dizzariot

Nice plug. Gonna message him...sucks it's just one.

The Amsterdam cat is on some other-level shit.

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Almighty So

I’m about to start flipping anything I can find with an old nismo logo
If you can’t beat em, join em.

Don’t price bash me.

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dizzariot

LOL. I doubt the knob actually sold. He probably kept it but wanted to shut you up.

Peter-Stormare-looking-motherfucker would scoop up old logo Nismo toiler paper and mark it up.

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Jake12

I was laughing and banging my head off the table at the same time reading that thread earlier. Lol

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180SX is discontinued.

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It will not be of silly price like auction, they are polyurethane item.

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on the nismo website they still stock the 320 GTR meters 38k yen that go for an insane amount of money reselling and even the triple dins in both colors as well as S15 nismo clusters.

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Gio RMS13

What Bigs said. Kids putting V-OPT url stickers on their cars who have never opened an Option mag in their lives are the same kids driving up prices.

They'll buy whatever fanboy thing they think will make them look cool and throw it at a car, and the funniest part about this to me is the identity crisis these cars have as a result of being a mishmash of hyped up parts. Then they'll realize they were dumb and try to recoup their losses from paying out the ass for a part to just to look cool, by selling it at an even higher mark-up, further driving up prices, and we wind up where we are now.

Prime example is that hubeny loser trying to sell his ABFlug headlights for $2200

Throwing tons of rare shit at a car doesn't automatically make it cool.



or maybe I'm getting old and ranty

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