I'd rather put this out there than have a bunch of things flying behind the scene so everyone knows what I did last night with Rick Leblanc's posts - Silver14FusionTi.
Rick put up some duplicate posts last night, this for me is an OCD nightmare and causes me to immediately delete them. I find that most of the time it is an LMS staff member that does this. I know that 99% of us use new topics to see what's going on with updates/new posts etc so posting the same thing does only one thing - brings up LMS posts in google search engine hits helping their SEO rankings. Instead of just saying I suck personally (well he kind of did) he put up that this whole forum sucks on EBOF (basically ran and owned by LMS). Rick previously worked for LMS and is all about making sure they get their advertising done. I've asked LMS to please keep their posts in their board, which for the most part they have. Rick via PM is also stating that I am biased towards Torrie in my latest posts and that I'm driving up posts for Torrie, I actually haven't had time to posts since around August due to opening the new shop, working day job etc. I've been woefully behind on doing much online other than working on the new shop's web site and store -
http://blackmarketracing.netI just wanted to give you guys a heads up concerning my relationship with Torrie - he's tuned for me in the past and I sell his tunes on my site. I make $15.00 to sell his tune gross - it costs me approximately 3% to sell one so that costs me around $12 so net profit is $3.00. I have done this in the past to offer an easy way for you guys to purchase downpipes/tunes etc in one place from me. Now Torrie has his own downpipes so you guys can buy downpipes and tunes directly from him on his website. Heck Torrie won't even talk to me on the phone, just like everyone else and my discounts to offer you guys stuff is almost non-existent, same with MPT tunes. I have no desire to tune any platform and wouldn't want the headache that comes with tuning for others.
I'd like to reiterate the function of my company - to utilize the profits to do R&D on vehicle parts and performance, I made it specifically for that reason. I think as a very very small company I've done a good job of bringing parts to the market and I will continue to do so as I can. I highly doubt I'm even a small thorn in LMS side for sales, marketing etc.
I'd also like to address this forums function - to provide as much of a non-biased review of performance upgrades as is possible. For the most part I don't even post about my company or my parts, I let it stand for itself and let members suggest me, only every once in awhile will I actually go into a post and "advertise" what is available.
I'd also like to remind everyone LMS has worked via our own moderators to make sure that they gain preference on this board, these same people continue to claim that I lied about my 600WHP dyno and that I personally am just a bad all around person. One of the previous moderators that was referring customers for LMS is now working for LMS.
I've also stopped posting in the tuning debate threads, I've realized it's like getting into a religious debate - you're not going to convert religion X into religion Y, no amount of facts or review of facts will change this. This goes towards both sides before someone thinks this is a slight towards LMS.
If you have any questions PM me, I don't want this to turn into a war, just letting you guys know what's going on.
