I know a company in the US doing these but im pretty sure ive seen someone selling these on the Parts For Sales section a few days back asking for £30 and £3.95 delivery for both sides - am i going crazy or has he disappeared??? UK based seller on here?
I’m seeking 2 Blue Roadster side decals for my S Special, so any info on a UK supplier will be most useful.
Meanwhile I’ll check out Parts For Sale.
Keith
No you aren’t going mad, the advert has gone. You could try the MX5Nutz forum
Yes the advert has been very kindly removed by the admins! They even had the audacity to attack “the seller” about the pricing!!!
might be worth a look here
http://www.mx5nutz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=110719&st=0
The level of “policing” on this site is, frankly, ridiculous!
It’s no wonder people / members are defecting to Mx5Nutz.
I deleted the post in question. Out of courtesy I told the op why.
This is an extract from the post [I was quoting a representative of the club]
“The Roadster stylisation device you are using is a Mazda International
trademark” etc etc
Give me a dozen examples of over policing of this forum!! You have no idea of the amount of moderation that goes on behind the scenes to keep this a nice place to be.
People defecting to nutz…yeh right…
inferno
I am sure you would certainly not appreciate a call from your local Trading Standards office - as I for one don’t want ever have to deal with trademark infringement / counterfeit case being asserted at the Club - and these things happen several times, every day accross the country. I asked for this to be pointed out to an admin as this action is in your best interest as well as that of the Club.
Mazda representatives both here in the UK and from Japan are on this forum regularly, this is one of the largest communities of MX-5 drivers and owners in the World.
Please take a step back to look at it a little - You have put your name and IP details etc out there on the internet as a supplier of conterfeit goods using someone’s trademark, (and who knows what laws they’ll change next in ‘preventing crime’) I have asked for that link to be broken, what happens on other forums I can’t say, but I can only make you aware.
You also need to consider that the implications as serious - People found to be selling counterfeit goods can be fined up to £5,000 and/or given up to 6 months in prison. The court will in most cases also order that all of their fake goods are seized and destroyed and all the equipment that is being used to create these will be seized and destroyed.
Yes these things are cool for your car, but if they are not licenced products then they are illegal, you will also need to tell your insurance company about sticking them on the car as we have seen a case where an insurance company has not paid out on a sticker related issue. At least if you buy a Mazda genuine decal it has a part number for insurance purposes. This is why I have been seeking the supply of genuine items.
I appreciate its just a number’s game and it may ‘never’ happen, but on the other hand do you want to find out?
The constructive feedback on pricing was based on a 1 minute market research on Google - ebay will return many items at the prices suggested.
First of all, I’d like to say I made a mistake. I assumed that ianf was an admin / mod… So my original comment was aimed directly at him, not Geoff! Geoff’s been nothing but amicable about the whole situation and I have no desire to get into this ‘over policed’ debate.
ianf, I don’t understand why you would find the need to attack someone’s pricing publicly on a forum… That’s totally un-called for!
Secondly, I don’t understand your repeated use if the word counterfeit! Surely counterfeit implies that I’ve copied something which belongs to Mazda? As far as I am aware, this stripe was never an option!!!
using the roadster text - yes! But like you say, a 1 minute market research reveals thousands of products bearing this text!! I would have thought if they were also ‘counterfeit’ then eBay wouldn’t allow them to be sold?!?
Oh, and to compare my side stripes to those sh1t on eBay is ridiculous! They’re awful.
As far as people defecting to Nutz!
I don’t think ill be paying my money to the oc next year!