[Robert Evans]

Matt,
I have not yet received any emails from you...Not sure which email address you replied to. My Club Cobra addresses are personal addresses and are not generally accessed here at my place of business. I will check later when I get home.

If various dealers are quoting Racedeck at different prices and stating that they can ship to your area in N.J., then they are free to do so if it is shipped from their own location, where ever that may be; be it in So. Calif. or even in Florida. Our agreement with the manufacturer states that we cannot ship from the manufacturer to a location outside of our "territory". There are many, many "resellers" who purchase Racedeck from "dealers" such as myself and resell it to their own customers. They can sell and ship where ever they please. If you are receiving poor customer service from so-called "dealers", make sure that they are indeed authorized Racedeck dealers, and not just "resellers" who have been set up by the dealers. I have some resellers who are charging over well $4.00 per sq.ft. to their customers...is this a problem just because you might be able to find it cheaper with someone else? I'm sure that you could find four different prices on the same model of Ford truck if you went to four different Ford dealers too!

The price that was being quoted both here and on FFR forum is a price that many of our resellers pay for this product before reselling it to their customers. We cannot post these prices over the internet for all the world to view...can you imagine the phone calls that I am going to be receiving from my 40+ resellers now that they have found out that some car guys on a Cobra forum can buy the Racedeck just as cheaply as they are as legitimate resellers?? They have quotas and minimum orders that they need to meet each month and now there is some guy posting wholesale pricing on a car forum. What about all the Club Cobra members who purchased Racedeck at our "regular" member discount of $2.79? Aren't they going to be a little P.O.'d too?

Regarding my email to you; I am not trying to fix prices nor am I trying to protect my own monetary interests. I was trying to help maintain the integrity of the dealer network by trying to find out who it was that was not playing by the dealer agreement rules that we signed to.

"May the best saleman win"....If I really wanted to sell alot of floors outside of my territory to Club Cobra and FFR Forum members, I could certainly do so and do it in a very big way. I purchase and sell more Racedeck than anyone else in the country other than the manufacturer because of the very highly populated areas that I sell in and I get some wholesale pricing that could put every other dealer in the country out of business within a month. Is this how we should run a dealer network?...or should we maintain dealer quality and sell for the market value price in each of our areas? Should a dealer with a much lower population in his area be handicapped by this and just let the best salesman win instead? What about the manufacturer?...They could outsell every dealer in the country too and put the rest of us out of business if they wanted to, right?

Why didn't the NE dealer get annoyed like I did?...well, maybe he doesn't happen to be a member of Club Cobra like I am. Maybe he doesn't frequent these forums like I do. Maybe I'm just trying to keep people like O.J. from causing anxiety between the dealers,...so call me a watchdog of sorts...not a price-fixer.