Defendoor
New Member
Hello All,
Let me put it too you straight. I screwed up.
I now realize that I did spam, it was however more unintentional than you think. I am new at this forum thing and at eBay and Defenders. Although I have belonged to eBay since 2003 the first item I ever sold were these fuel filler recess covers for the Defender.
I can only explain my actions by saying this. I live in the Sumava Mountains and, in November 2007, fulfilled a lifetime dream of owning a Defender. I spent the first year without a garage and dealt with digging mud, snow and ice out of my fuel filler recess as I came up with the idea of making a cover out of necessity. We all have ideas and I have many, the problem is seeing ideas through to the end, mostly I get halfway through before I realize it wasnt such a good idea and it dies. This idea not only worked, it worked great. I got excited and spammed.
I put my first covers up on eBay and got unexpected results and super feedback. Even more unexpected were the many, many inquiries I received. Ding, ding went the little bell in the head and I have been working feverously since that day to get material and get my tool on a machine. I have now produced over 10,000 and sold a good bit of those. Companies are discussing exclusive rights in 3 countries and I have agreed with the big boys to halt single sales on Feb 15th. It seems that the single item price they have in mind is about triple of mine.
I am truly interested in your input and I realize that 99% of you probably understand more about Land Rover and Defenders than I.
I have three completely new Defender ideas in the working, all something that most owners would like because they are actually useful and helpful on a daily basis. I am afraid to mention them here for fear of spamming but will certainly search for a method to present them in a different way and invite constructive comments and criticism. How to do this is a bit difficult. I will need to explain the idea early enough in the project to be able to make positive changes but I dont want to have the idea ripped off.
Anyway, thank you all for your feedback, and sorry that I spammed.
Let me put it too you straight. I screwed up.
I now realize that I did spam, it was however more unintentional than you think. I am new at this forum thing and at eBay and Defenders. Although I have belonged to eBay since 2003 the first item I ever sold were these fuel filler recess covers for the Defender.
I can only explain my actions by saying this. I live in the Sumava Mountains and, in November 2007, fulfilled a lifetime dream of owning a Defender. I spent the first year without a garage and dealt with digging mud, snow and ice out of my fuel filler recess as I came up with the idea of making a cover out of necessity. We all have ideas and I have many, the problem is seeing ideas through to the end, mostly I get halfway through before I realize it wasnt such a good idea and it dies. This idea not only worked, it worked great. I got excited and spammed.
I put my first covers up on eBay and got unexpected results and super feedback. Even more unexpected were the many, many inquiries I received. Ding, ding went the little bell in the head and I have been working feverously since that day to get material and get my tool on a machine. I have now produced over 10,000 and sold a good bit of those. Companies are discussing exclusive rights in 3 countries and I have agreed with the big boys to halt single sales on Feb 15th. It seems that the single item price they have in mind is about triple of mine.
I am truly interested in your input and I realize that 99% of you probably understand more about Land Rover and Defenders than I.
I have three completely new Defender ideas in the working, all something that most owners would like because they are actually useful and helpful on a daily basis. I am afraid to mention them here for fear of spamming but will certainly search for a method to present them in a different way and invite constructive comments and criticism. How to do this is a bit difficult. I will need to explain the idea early enough in the project to be able to make positive changes but I dont want to have the idea ripped off.
Anyway, thank you all for your feedback, and sorry that I spammed.