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  • AJ-Racing: Knock Off J’s Racing?

    Read this from my friend's blog:

    Since 2009 Summer, I’ve heard from a few well placed sources that AJ-Racing was selling knock off J’s Racing products. AJ-Racing was J’s Racing’s official North American distributor. Therefore, I was a bit skeptical of that claim and dismissed it as being unsubstantiated. I speculated that because AJ-Racing’s T1R products were similar to J’s Racing products, some had misunderstood it as being knock offs.

    Today, I saw this on J’s Racing’s president and founder’s blog. Ben Leung represents AJ-Racing.

    Dear Ben Leung

    First of all, it is almost 9 years since we, J’s Racing, started a business
    relationship with your company in 2002. We fully acknowledge that your sales
    & marketing have made the current J’s Racing popular status in the North America
    and we deeply thank you for that.

    Unfortunately we have to present you a rather unpleasant notice today. We recently
    learned that in spite of your status of an official distributor of J’s Racing, you
    have been copying J’s Racing products in a factory abroad and selling the products
    as the genuine J’s Racing merchandise.

    In order to verify the information and to get the clear evidence we actually purchased
    a product from you for an inspection. Regrettably we found that you not only copied the
    product but also copied our packing tape and box to make the product look exactly like a
    genuine J’s Racing product.

    Now that we have a proof and we consider your conduct as a criminal offense, we no longer
    can maintain the current business relationship with you. We have already consulted an
    attorney in the British Columbia and we are ready to take strong legal actions if necessary.

    We strongly feel that an official distributor should be the one policing the copied or
    knockoff products. It is outrageous that an official distributor itself sells a copied
    product as a genuine one. This is an inexcusable conduct even from the social point of
    view and we will not forgive this kind of crime.

    Regarding this matter, we are considering the number of actions. We will give you one
    chance of providing us a sincere response and coming up with an offer for a monetary

    Our actions include but are not limited to
    1) Termination of the distributor status
    2) A legal action to demand accounting information on the quantity of the copied products
    produced and to demand a definite proof for destroying the copied products.
    3) Bringing a criminal charges against A&J Racing
    4) Disclosure of the issue on our website using your company’s name
    5) Disclosure of the issue on the several forums in the world using your company’s name

    To name several forums,

    http://www.s2ki.com/

    http://www.8thcivic.com/

    http://www.nagtroc.org/forums/

    http://www.honda-tech.com/

    http://hondamarketplace.com/

    http://www.fitfreak.net/forums/

    http://www.team-integra.net/

    http://www.definitivedriving.com/

    http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/

    6) Notification of the issue to all the manufacturers J’s Racing has business relationship with
    7) Notification of the issue to all the companies J’s Racing has traded with
    8) Notification of the issue to all the magazine publishing companies A&J Racing has relationship with
    9) Notification of the issue to your father, Anthony

    Those actions will inflict serious damages to your company.
    In the business world, the trust is the most important. It is very regrettable you have lost our trust.
    We will be waiting for your sincere response and a specific compensation offer.
    The deadline is April 22, 2009.

    Sincerely

    J’S RACING Junichi Umemoto
    J’S RACING Hisaaki Murakami

  • #2
    glad I never bought their stuff while I had my ITR. Someone tell Rob with the S2K. haha
    I go to the gym so I can look good naked.

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    • #3
      Ouch!!!

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      • #4
        I smell a class action law suit

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        • #5
          Fuckin bastards. All the hard work tuners put in just to be stabbed in the back

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