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Originally Posted by Boss Paco
I liked my AFE knocked off GReddy Momentum intake. Even had AFE coupler in the box too. Was it a lesser product? Nope.
It's great that this is aired out. It's no secret who got my money nor that I am very happy with my purchase. In today's global economy, how much do you think is actually produced by the actual company and sold under their name?
That said, if someone stole my product and sold it for less, I'd kick their ass and sue them. If they were bigger than me, then I'd just sue.
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aFE contracted with Greddy USA to make that product for them and badge it as Greddy, it's a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SITUATION. Meaning aFE was still getting paid for the intakes.
In this situation, ZAGE just copied the design because that's what they do, and then SPD resells the same copied design. It's very similar to ROTA wheels, they copy the design of popular wheels and sell them for cheaper.
This stuff happens all the time in lots of different industries, car parts are no different. If everyone was in the US, it wouldn't happen. Greddy could license their design for ZAGE to build, but Greddy would still be getting paid from it. In this case they get nothing for their R&D work.
The reality is SPD insinuated Greddy was sourcing their parts/kit from ZAGE in a different thread, and it is a completely untrue. Instead of just owning up to it, Chris has chosen to defend ZAGE and SPD by just ignoring that and spouting off something about ZAGE being a big turbo parts manufacturer. Yeah they manufacture stuff they copied from people who do real design work.
SPD pays the site, Greddy doesn't, so I'm guessing this will get closed and Greddy will get banned which is the norm for this site. People have asked me about the SPD kit and I always steer them elsewhere.