Debating to start selling steering wheels for supra's and other cars!

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So I recently made a friend in China who owns a manufacturing plant that supplies almost all of the steering wheels that we are buying. I bought a few for myself and some friends and the quality is spectacular, she uses oem cores and from start to finish took 2 and a half weeks. plus she offers a good warranty. I am not in the business of exposing her clients but some of them are charging 2 and sometimes 3x the price that she is selling them for. a $850-900 dollar LED Shift light custom wheel for 1900+ core. I want to start selling them at normal prices, for examples $7-900 shipped with no core required. Here are some of the wheels she has done for me and some buddies, trying to make this transparent and easy and posting here to get some feedback! I did not want to say anything till I had a few in my hand and could confirm quality etc and that everything was legit. Not trying to really make a million bucks of this, just sort of pay for my time and stop letting people get royally bent over with pricing. Let me know your thoughts below! We can literally make any configuration, paddles, trim etc.

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Good on you for wanting to do this..
But as a business owner(pool contractor)if you sell at or near cost you typically won't stay in business long...
It sounds as if your trying to do this as a hobby business which for you might be fine but the other businesses selling these at a mark up are probably trying to pay there bills selling these wheels...I can't really fault them for charging more than cost...

I'm sure you'll make a few bucks selling these and other wheels at the price point you said...just take into consideration when things aren't perfect or you get that 1 customer that is a pain in the butt..
How much is your time worth?
Take it from me working for free sucks..

Steve

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No one likes being bent over but the market dictates price...
Capitalism...haha...
 
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Good on you for wanting to do this..
But as a business owner(pool contractor)if you sell at or near cost you typically won't stay in business long...
It sounds as if your trying to do this as a hobby business which for you might be fine but the other businesses selling these at a mark up are probably trying to pay there bills selling these wheels...I can't really fault them for charging more than cost...

I'm sure you'll make a few bucks selling these and other wheels at the price point you said...just take into consideration when things aren't perfect or you get that 1 customer that is a pain in the butt..
How much is your time worth?
Take it from me working for free sucks..

Steve
of course, I have to make something but even doing that I can still be a lot cheaper than most if all companies. Find me another Carbon LED Shift light wheel, with any custom color/material you want for under 1k shipped with no core required. selling at that cost, I can still make enough to make it worth it, but not be charging crazy prices. no overhead, drop ship
 

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Man...I was trying to talk you out of doing it...I think it's great you wanna try n take care of the community wants/needs at a reasonable cost..

If you're happy making a few hundred bucks on each transaction then that's fine...

My point was at the end of the day you will get that 1 person you just can't/won't make happy n they'll run ya crazy n suck up all your time...
Which obviously eats into any money's you were hoping to make...

I think you should move forward with this...I'm pretty confident you'll do well...

Steve
 

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here would be your closest competition. I tried to do a group buy for these wheels for the price you were asking and there were absolutely no takers (well....maybe 1 guy). Ended up going with an East Coast customs wheel for $750 shipped during a sale

https://vqcarboncustoms.com/shop-no...2021-toyota-supra-carbon-fiber-steering-wheel

also a tough market considering is pretty easy to buy them direct from the chinese companies from ebay or alibaba like you did for a little over 700
 
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here would be your closest competition. I tried to do a group buy for these wheels for the price you were asking and there were absolutely no takers (well....maybe 1 guy). Ended up going with an East Coast customs wheel for $750 shipped during a sale

https://vqcarboncustoms.com/shop-no...2021-toyota-supra-carbon-fiber-steering-wheel

also a tough market considering is pretty easy to buy them direct from the chinese companies from ebay or alibaba like you did for a little over 700
Ya like I just made an IG and posted a special, LED wheel shipped 899 no core required, a lot of the ali baba sellers won't sell one at a time and the shipping costs are insanely expensive, 100+. So that's still almost $200 cheaper than VQ. that east coast custom wheels was it with led?
 

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No. Just a standard custom CF wheel. The led’s get annoying fast.
 
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No. Just a standard custom CF wheel. The led’s get annoying fast.
ya I agree, I am personally not a fan either, but some people love it! but ya a wheel like yours can be done for under 700. and then minus 220 if you return a core...
 

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I'd be interested in just a simple one like the first two pictures... especially it if was $750 or less.
 

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If you could, you should do like an alternate steering wheel, instead of Black/Red, Black/Blue or Black/Grey
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Is it possible on the supra wheel to get rid of the solid lower middle section and use spokes instead like the AMG wheel pictured?

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Is it possible on the supra wheel to get rid of the solid lower middle section and use spokes instead like the AMG wheel pictured?

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not safely, it would comprise the rigidity of the wheel since it was not crash tested or designed like that, I can imagine it could be done but not something I would try.
 
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I'd be interested in just a simple one like the first two pictures... especially it if was $750 or less.
yep that is 750, well actually a tad bit less! I made an IG for the "company" dm me!(@legit.wheels) or my personal whichever you'd prefer, or text haha. (561)-236-6280
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