You have avoided every point I made in my previous post, and since you have refused both offers to talk privately, we can just chat on here.
First off, check your history books. Bassett and Trapp (now Unique) have been the wheels available from 600 dealers like yourself, far before the wheel rule change. Bassett isnt a new guy in town who made a fat deal with 600.
Yes, everyone knows I sell Bassetts, but also doesn't everyone also know that you are a new 600 parts dealer? You, I would think, would not have a problem selling Bassett wheels, since they are a 600 catalog piece.
As far as my dealing with Bassett, since you don't have a single fact about me or my business, I will elaborate for you. I began selling Bassett wheels after the rule change was announced, as you inferred. Why did I do this? To help out the racers. If you don't believe that, please read on.
Where you stated that it would hurt my business if I didn't sell anymore, it would certainly not. I could stop selling wheels tomorrow and be doing just fine.
I will now lay my cards on the table...I have a sneaky suspicion that you will not:
My cost for a Bassett wheel is $52.74, whether I buy one or one hundred pieces. This is the cost if I drive an hour and a half one way to pick them up from the factory, no shipping charges.
I sell them for $62.00 each, a gross profit of $9.62 per wheel. Round trip of 120 miles at 12 MPG is 10 gallons of gas. Currently, as I look out my window, gas prices are down to $2.54.9 per gallon. I'll drop the .9 so you can't accuse me of mis-stating the facts. So, $2.54 X 10 gallons=$25.40 for fuel. That takes away the profit for 2.6 wheel sales for every trip I make down there. You can put your own value on what you think that wear and tear on my truck and 3 hours of my time are worth. I wont even get into the fact that I only charge $60 each for the guys I race with that pick their wheels up on race day.
The MSRP for the Bassett wheel is $66.10.
600 sells them for $72.99.
I sell them for $62.00.
You can deny it all you want, I am helping my fellow racers to get the parts they need at a better cost than they can buy from either Bassett or 600.
If I'm a bad guy for that, I guess I'll be a bad guy.
To date, I have sold 19 wheels at a total gross profit of $182.78, and made 2 trips at a cost of $50.80, for a total income of $131.98 not counting my time, vehicle depreciation, or the fact that a majority of those sales were made at the track for $60.00, not $62.00.
If I were to never sell a wheel again, I'd be just fine.
Why you have chosen to make this personal, I'm not sure. My issue is with the fact that a rule was made, the majority of racers have purchased new wheels in the last year or so to conform to it, and now, for some reason, it's not going to be enforced. There is an air of impropriety here, and that does not sit well with me. I know for a fact that at least one of the racers on this forum disposed of 5 Aero wheels because of the wheel rule, as they had no value a couple wheels ago. He could have used them this year, or sold them to someone who could.
As with all things, I have made a decision to race Legends cars, and will continue to do so, but I also have the right to state my feelings on a particular subject if I feel it is not being handled correctly, do I not? Just as you have the right to state that you feel it is a good decision. Why you took it to a personal level, I will never know, as I don't recall having a negative experience with you in the past. If you're just toe-ing the company line, thats fine, but do not try to personally involve me in your propaganda...it won't work.
I laid my cards out on the table...your turn
