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Scott, I could not either but what turned me on to this ad was like I stated in my take off on this adventure, the fact that the puller that I held in my hands at this local clubmakers shop clearly had, KENNEDY GOLF, stamped right into the main body. My wonderment is if he was going that far why didn't he also put "EQUIPMENT" or did he think I would notice or he did not know how to spell EQUIPMENT. That is what made me mad. Hell if I gotten mad at him for doing what he was doing I would of never of gotten into the PULLER" business as there were plenty of shaft pullers out there already. But the two things I did do that I thought was important was 1/ I never copied anyones design and 2/ I never compared my unit to anybody else puller. I let my quality stand on it's own merits ,unlike this guy who clearly copied Mitchell's lesser known puller. My puller is and was a unit that was a stand a lone design and my newest design, the floating clamp jaws are the only thing like it in the marketplace in todays golf repair equipment business. I have never nor will I ever infringe upon another's product design unless it was done unknowably by me. Why did I react like I did, well I have ran test on my puller's design wise for over 25 hours per design level to get to the point I am today. I ran design tests on my phase 1, MKI, prototypes for around 10 hours then after more testing I found out through more testing that two (2) .750 guide bolts were overkill I tried two (2) .625 guide bolts after I found out that they too were overkill I tested two (2) .500 bolts, which is what is used on my present MKVII model today, but at no time did I ever consider going with a lone guide bolt, 1/ because it was used by another company and 2/ Through testing I found that unless you applied oil to the single guide bolt, no matter what size was used, it would w/in about 250 to 300 pulls start gulling up and stop working. It was through these tests and other things that I had put my Shaft puller through that I am selling it today. Like I said in my first post on this subject "I DON'T BUILD JUNK"
RK
Oh by the way my test jig consists of my test mule, Puller and a automobile exhaust spring with a rating of 1500 pounds.
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Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:51:02 AM
Subject: Re: ShopTalk: The guy changed his write-up
I can pretty much guarantee that ebay will not take any responsibility for
this, as they are only a service and have nothing to with the actual
products that are being sold. To compound it, what he is doing isn't
breaking any of their rules. I have a rating of 72, and the stuff I've
bought and sold ranges from hunting to electronics to kids stuff to golf
stuff. This rating is for all transactions, both buying and
selling. People that use ebay don't assume that because he has a high ebay
rating that the only thing he sells are shaft pullers. They use the
ratings to determine whether or not he is trustworthy and worth doing
business with. If he pays for stuff he bids on, and delivers products he
sells in a timely fashion, that is really what it is meant for and is
worthy of a positive rating.
Also, I've been keeping an eye on the pullers that he is selling, and I
have seen probably every listing he has had over the last few months. I
never once had the impression that he was selling your puller, or that he
was representing himself as you. By comparing his puller to yours, he
isn't doing anything different than the rest of us when we try to convince
people that the custom clubs we build are just as good as any of the OEM
clubs that are out there.
I can understand why you feel slighted, but I honestly can't see the
problem with what this guy is doing.
Scott
At 11:02 AM 7/16/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I wrote the guy a nice informative post last night and received one back
>this morning from him. So I just got finished looking at his sale item's
>on E-Bay and did that open my eyes, he not only was selling shaft pullers
>but you name it in golf he was selling it, head covers, golf clubs, grips,
>shafts, plus you name it in golf he was selling it. But by just looking
>at all his satified customers you would think that he is only selling
>Shaft Pullers. I'm going to try and get some "LIVE"Person to talk to me
>at E-Bay and see why they allow something like this to happen. I mean I
>could be selling golf tees and getting all kinds and types of reviews then
>start to sell shaft pullers and am allowed to use the nice comments I had
>received from selling golf tees. What gets me is that it looks like he
>has sold over 500 units of this item when in real life I think he has sold
>only around 6 to 12 units. Plus I do not think that he has nuilt or for
>that matter even knows how to run any of the machines to do the work in
>making one, I think he runs a "STORE" front business like any other
>business and inflates what he sells, no Al. T. not anything like your live
>in love ballon. Sorry Al T's wife but you most of all of us knows how he is.
>
>Oh by the way if any body knows how I can speak , via the internet, to
>some live person at E-bay I sure would like to ask just what their policy
>is on dealers like this slime ball. The reason I said via the internet
>is because I now can no longer can use the Phone, speakerphone Yes, but by
>the time I can reach the phone when it's ringing the party's hung up. So
>goes life
>
>RK
>
>Kennedy
> golf-equipment
>manufacturer's of world class club repair tooling
>
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