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Would you knowingly buy a stolen car?
Would you knowingly buy a stolen car stereo?
Would you knowingly buy a fake Rolex watch?
Would you knowingly buy fake or copied JDM parts?
What's the difference between these four statements? You are still paying for an item that the reseller has 0 right to sell.
By buying counterfeit or direct copies the design has been stolen from a legit company that has:
a) developed the part from scratch
b) spent hours designing the part for function, fitment, endurance and style
c) spent considerable time and money on R+D and testing
d) spent company money on marketing to raise product awareness
e) paid for the very best staff to assess quality control
Counterfeit companies do not have any of these costs. They are merely just copying the design. Retailers of such parts actually make far more profit
than retailers of legit parts!
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Counterfeit and low quality "JDM" immitation goods
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Here at Touge we are proud to offer you only authentic products. We believe in offering you the best prices we can on the best parts Japan has to offer.
Unfortunately not all companies do it for the love. Their are some bad apples, too.
A number of manufacturers have made announcements about ebay shops selling counterfeit goods. Cheap means cheap for a reason. One of the largest costs of
auto products (whether it be OEM or after market) is research and development and product testing.
Some of the manufacturers we openly support spend millions of Yen on R+D. Some even fly half way round the the world to carry out testing! Tein have been
known to test their products on the Nurburgring! If you can't justify that extra 30% over buying cheap Taiwanese product that has NEVER been tested in a
vigarious environment that is up to you. But please consider the following:
- Cheap bucket seats can cripple you in an accident, you are safer in an OEM seat!
- Cheap suspension components such as camber adjusters have been known to snap, consider that at 150kph
- Cheap big brake kits have been known to crack under stress
- Cheap wheels have a well documented history of spokes snapping, warping and cracking.
The Japanese are known for their relentless product testing and quality control. Other Asian countries however, are not.
Please consider this when comparing product pricing!!
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But surely saving money is a good thing?
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Yes, it is. But saving money by buying counterfeit, direct copies or poor quality products is a false economy.
Manufacturers of these parts do not care about safety, customer care or quality. They have already shown themselves as talentless companies without ethics
the moment they decided to make copies!
There are thousands of horror stories on the internet about these types of products. Why not just remove that risk of failures by buying the real thing. If you can't afford the real thing stick with OEM!
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But it looks the same, whats the difference?
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A wheel is a wheel right? Wrong!
Materials, workmanship, manufacturing methods, quality and factory efficiency are vital to a production of a wheel.
There are dozens of fake wheel companies from the Philappines to China all copying the designs from Japan and then making cheap cast copies which sell at 1/4 the real forged Japanese made wheels.
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If the price were lower, I'd buy the real thing..
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Simple. Buyer a cheaper part. But don't support the companies THAT DO NOT CARE about the industry. Counterfeit and direct copies are destroying the tuning industry.
Some Japanese companies are now so worried about counterfeit they will not allow export in fear of copies being made for US and EU markets. Help us help you by not support these crooks.
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If people carry on buying counterfeit..
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Bottom line. More and more companies will either:
a) close as export market will no longer be viable due to the number of customers opting to buy counterfeit
b) refuse to allow export of parts in fear of copies being made
The export market is vital to the Japanese tuning industry. More and more damage is being done to this fabulous industry by crooks with 0 ethics.
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The following is a press release from Tein, Co Ltd:
Recently, We have confirmed that some of the eBay stores are guilty of selling COUNTERFEIT TEIN S.TECH springs.
TEIN would like to inform you of the differences between the COUNTERFEIT TEIN S.TECH springs and the Authentic S.TECH.
Difficult-to-tell counterfeit S.tech springs are being heavily marketed. Such replicas may be of bad quality and extremely dangerous!
- NO precise lowering spec (each corner sitting at different heights!)
- Unknown quality, which may lead to sagging, rust, cracking and noise issues
- Unknown Engineering Data
- Extremely dangerous and can lead to suspension failure
We are now in the process of taking legal matters in effort to resolve this issue. We are committed to keep the general public informed as
information becomes available.
 
 
The following companies have also been affected by counterfeit, low quality, immitation goods: Bride, Jun Auto, Spoon, J's Racing, Mugen, HKS, Blitz, Kreissieg, Takata, Cusco, Kaaz, Rays, Advan, Amuse, Apexi. The list goes on and on.
Why should a company that cares very little about your safety benefit from the brand awareness that these companies have worked hard to build? We urge customers to always buy with caution and from reputable companies.
Bottom line: By buying cheaper JDM rip off goods (yes, the ones that sound vaguely Japanese but are not) you are damaging an industry run by
people that love their jobs. The cheap brands manufactured in China, Vietnam, Taiwan are not manufactured by perfectionists. They are manufactured by mass production companies that
make for dozens of cheap, poor quality brands tagged with Japanese sounding names.
Quality costs. It costs because its had intensive testing, its manufactured by highly skilled people, its tested by people that care.
Love JDM. Hate poor quality ripoff rubbish.
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