You pay for time and effort. The added parts might cost $100 but youre not accouting that someone actually have to make it and ship it. Imagine spending 8 hours to make a front lip to sell it for $100
As someone who plans on joining the car parts retailer business. Youre paying extra for convience. Good retailers have parts ordered on bulk which minmiaze wait time. Instead of waiting a month. You pay $200 more and get it in a week. The $200 helps cover storage fee and shipping.
@@black_n5492 Depends. The “bigger” guys have a storage unit they keep bigger parts. A storage unit cost less than 300/month. It’s not hard to keep big inventory.
@@BlvckPapa Okay dude. Feel free to buy at $$hundreds mark up if you want. The point still stands majority of these sellers drop ship and add an inflated markup to the price of these parts all while getting it from the same Alibaba sources.
Can you make a link in the description from which sellers on Alibaba you bought the parts from? I just bought an e92 m3 and wouldn’t want to pay overprice from western retailers if it is the same quality anyways!
Mmm most business have some sort of uniqueness. A lot of vendors are just buying straight from here not changing anything about it to make it “their product”. Even worse that they don’t have it in stock and drop shipping it lol
unless the company you're buying from is made 100% in America or Europe, this is the quality you get.. 99% of the construction is fiberglass. the carbon I use is about $100/square yard. (prepreg) where Fiberglass is $4.50 per yard. if it was made in China, theres a 99% chance it was made with fiberglass. if it was made in China and it says "prepreg construction" it's like 5050 tbh.
Yeah, they’re not putting out super high-quality parts, to my understanding. Taiwan puts out the best carbon fiber products. But the point of the video is that the stuff I ordered straight from China is identical to half of the products sold by companies here. This hood and trunk is identical inside and out to Seibon, which cost $1000/1800.
@@Sideways_N55 yeah but its not. These are nearly all made with polyester gel coat instead of clear coat, fiberglass reinforcement behind a single layer of carbon, and polyester laminating resin holding it all together. All of these products are going to degrade faster than a part made from prepreg with a high quality clear coat. It might look as nice out of the box, but in a few years it will start to yellow and the gel coat will peel. At the price point you paid, that is reasonable. At the retailer price point and with all the “trucarbon/realcarbon/fullcarbon” marketing fluff added to it, it’s just dishonest and approaches the price for a proper prepreg part. Good video! More people need to expose these retailers.
car parts are a joke because youll buy a $1000 carbon sideskirt that costs at minimum 100 bucks to make. don’t even get me started on euro parts
You pay for time and effort. The added parts might cost $100 but youre not accouting that someone actually have to make it and ship it.
Imagine spending 8 hours to make a front lip to sell it for $100
Getting paid 20 bucks an hour for 8 hrs = 160…ok raise there monies to 200 for selling products because we all know these things are machined lol
As someone who plans on joining the car parts retailer business. Youre paying extra for convience. Good retailers have parts ordered on bulk which minmiaze wait time. Instead of waiting a month. You pay $200 more and get it in a week. The $200 helps cover storage fee and shipping.
There’s no convenience to the example I show at the end lol he drops ships it unless you pay for air which is like $350 for anything small
@@Sideways_N55 literally this. I always tell people, these dudes are drop shippers. They don't make or store shit 🤣.
Yea, you're wrong here. Most of these guys do NOT hold inventory except for the smallest items
@@black_n5492 Depends. The “bigger” guys have a storage unit they keep bigger parts. A storage unit cost less than 300/month. It’s not hard to keep big inventory.
@@BlvckPapa Okay dude. Feel free to buy at $$hundreds mark up if you want. The point still stands majority of these sellers drop ship and add an inflated markup to the price of these parts all while getting it from the same Alibaba sources.
Like your videos bro , do you have a link to the parts you bought from alibab
lol similar situation with e9x exhausts, bomiz and valvetronic drop ship their “titanium” exhausts from alibaba
Did you have to get a shipping agent I’m trying to start buying parts but hard to find a good place to start
Can you make a link in the description from which sellers on Alibaba you bought the parts from? I just bought an e92 m3 and wouldn’t want to pay overprice from western retailers if it is the same quality anyways!
Gotta do your research buddy, we don’t wanna expose our sellers either smh
Sooo good
Whats the sellers name that you used from alibaba?
Can you do a vid on the install of the front hood please and ty
Yes soon!
Only thing that kills me is cost of freight shipping 😭 but will be copping a similar setup next summer
I mean you order from anyone in US you paying more and waiting the same lol and this is all negotiable with the manufactures.
Thats literally how most businesses work
Mmm most business have some sort of uniqueness. A lot of vendors are just buying straight from here not changing anything about it to make it “their product”. Even worse that they don’t have it in stock and drop shipping it lol
Really livin my dream bro 🙏🏾 I’m stuck with a f30 328 at 23
Don’t compare bro, there’s PLENTY of 30 years olds who want to be where you are. Keep hustling, stay in your lane, your time will come G
@@Akac3sh only stage 1
@@threedirty5455 thanks bro 🙏🏾
That’s nicer than what I had at 23 lol wish I had an F30…. You’re chillen bro don’t worry, you got time.
unless the company you're buying from is made 100% in America or Europe, this is the quality you get.. 99% of the construction is fiberglass. the carbon I use is about $100/square yard. (prepreg) where Fiberglass is $4.50 per yard. if it was made in China, theres a 99% chance it was made with fiberglass. if it was made in China and it says "prepreg construction" it's like 5050 tbh.
Yeah, they’re not putting out super high-quality parts, to my understanding. Taiwan puts out the best carbon fiber products. But the point of the video is that the stuff I ordered straight from China is identical to half of the products sold by companies here. This hood and trunk is identical inside and out to Seibon, which cost $1000/1800.
But honestly, everything is pretty good quality. Maybe the lip is a little bit thin that’s about it.
@@Sideways_N55 yeah but its not. These are nearly all made with polyester gel coat instead of clear coat, fiberglass reinforcement behind a single layer of carbon, and polyester laminating resin holding it all together. All of these products are going to degrade faster than a part made from prepreg with a high quality clear coat. It might look as nice out of the box, but in a few years it will start to yellow and the gel coat will peel.
At the price point you paid, that is reasonable. At the retailer price point and with all the “trucarbon/realcarbon/fullcarbon” marketing fluff added to it, it’s just dishonest and approaches the price for a proper prepreg part.
Good video! More people need to expose these retailers.
whats the link to that song towards the end at 3:24
The song is called Win it back by Damma Beatz
"Definitely worth the price" but doesn't show how the fitment is. I'll wait till the next video where you show all the panel gaps.
I got some bad news for you if you’re hoping for gaps :/
First