[JayG]

I am not passing judgement one way or another on this topic other than the way Pedro promoted it MAY have been a little misleading.

First of all, Particlewave DOES NOT sell replacement headlights. He has graciously provided a service to install them in your lights should you not want to do them yourself and has posted very detailed instructions including his learned tips and tricks. The projectors you are thinking about are manufactured by Nine8Six.

Second, if you read Pedro's "Ad", it states that he is looking for buyers so he can can do a bulk purchase.

Third, as someone that works for a company that does re-branding on some of their products, I am somewhat familiar with the re-branding process. Pedro is buying the units at a discount, so his profit should be more than just the difference from what he sells them for to what "retail" is from the manufacturer. That is how re-branding works, you negotiate a price with the manufacturer and go from there. I highly doubt he is paying retail and marking it up from there. Again, that is why he was has asking for firm orders from people. His exact wording was "I'll need a firm order - no promises" That right there is saying he is looking it buy a quantity at a discount and sell them at a markup with little or no risk, nor any inventory carrying cost

If Pedro was selling then at the same price as the manufacturer, I don't think this thread would have happened at all. Instead, Pedro chose to mark it up over retail and maybe mislead a little about its capabilities and definitely mislead about who developed it and what it was.

I do think that Pedro does generally provide good and helpful information on his website and from what I have read from others is a good guy that is more than willing to help others at no cost to them.

Is he or anyone entitled to sell whatever they want at any price, absolutely! Do you have to buy it, no. In this case, IMHO, he did get caught (?) maybe taking advantage of some that are not as well informed. His response was also poor and perhaps he could have nipped this in the bud with a better response.

IMHO ParticleWave saw something he felt was wrong and taking advantage of people and pointed it out. Don't shoot the messenger