I give up man. All I was saying is that it will be hard to sell high quality premium exhausts with a long lead time when you can hop on ebay or google and get a set of slip ons for $600. You have pretty much proven my point on that.
Now that the sales pitch is here... $1200 is a steep price for a new exhaust maker, and your opinion of "proven" might be a little different than others. Again, why would I buy yours when I can get a jardine 2-1 for less than $600 brand new? Or for a little more I can get a full titanium 2-1 from tsukigi?
I am not trying to hate, as I admire your dedication to a dying platform, but I think that you really should spend some time getting your designs flow tested and dyno'ed. That would go a long way to dispel some of the doubts that the membership here has. I can only assume that you haven't had these on a dyno due to the fact that you never post one when asked. If you are seriously trying to make a name in the exhaust world, get a business loan and buy a dyno (or dyno time) and hire a few folks like tuners and engineers. What you may have "learned" over the years may not be helping. Part of making some money by designing a product and selling it, is to actually test it out through the proper channels.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't spend cash on a new exhaust unless I had, at the very least, a dyno sheet.
Oh, and the starting price on that exhaust was only 1 yen: Starting price
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