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Thank you everyone that supported us in the last year. We are fairly a new company (about 2 years old) and we have to keep turning inventory to stay alive. We wanted to develop and bring more products to 3S platform next year, but with that said, due to lack of interest in our products, we decided to discontinue most of our 3S line up. Once again, thank you everyone for all the support in the past couple of years.
Maybe start finishing people's cars at IPS and you would have more interest.
Sorry, but this is Fabberge, not IPS. We mostly manufacture car parts, rarely work on cars, and if we do, mostly for R&D. We can't control what other companies are doing.
Literally LOL. So you don't own (or have a stake in) both companies? When did you sell IPS?Quote:
Originally Posted by 3kgtSL91
So from your corvette build thread, this isn't at the IPS shop and isn't an employee wearing an IPS shirt?Quote:
Originally Posted by 3kgtSL91
How is this relevant to this thread? Yes, have stake in both. I also have shares in companies like LinkedIn but it doesn't mean I run it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by familyMAN
sure isQuote:
Originally Posted by familyMAN
Speaking of LinkedIn. You still on your page that you are the owner of IPS. Not a simple share holder. It's relevant.Quote:
Originally Posted by 3kgtSL91
You come here to state you aren't selling 3S products anymore because of lack of interest. Your lack of service through your other business (that many know are related) isn't helping. Relevant.
businesses are not related to each other at all. Yes, Fabberge started out as a division of IPS, but that was at the very beginning, like January of 2014. In July, companies split up completely.Quote:
Originally Posted by familyMAN
FWIW, I've heard the name Fabberge, but I thought you personally were the IPS guy. The corvette picture and thread was an IPS thread I thought, but I guess not?
Sad to hear you won't be supporting the platform. I know IPS (or Fabberge) does a lot of work on vette's and is successful. I used to see a trailer with cars at the track often and they always performed well.
What items are you NOT discontinuing?Quote:
Originally Posted by 3kgtSL91
Guess my gift card is going to be worthless then, although when I emailed multiple times trying to use it, it was just as worthless.
He is the "IPS guy". Owns both companies, just playing a shell game.Quote:
Originally Posted by futurevr4man
Issues posted on 3Si of guys not getting their cars completed. GM forums as well.
This thread is so entertaining to me. Like from the initial post all I could think of was I can't wait for this to turn into a train wreck. It's like a friend that robs from you then can't really hang out anymore because you don't trust him, then plays the victim. I can't help but think that there isn't a thread on the other site because more people would jump all over it.
:popcorn:
I was confused after the initial post...but with the replies....
Come on, guys. He can't possibly be as bad as Cianci.
Well, could be worse, he could be named Mahaffey. Or Dennis.
i was the ips guy until i split when fabberge was formed. ips is now closed for good.Quote:
Originally Posted by futurevr4man
so far we are planning on keeping the exhausts and intakesQuote:
Originally Posted by Uniuno
i have no emails about the gift card. where did you email to?Quote:
Originally Posted by sublime_whatigo
i am pretty sure i explained the situation the way it is. i guess some people never get it. i don't believe you are even our customer so please keep hating... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by familyMAN
we don't sponsor the other site so why make an announcement over there? plus i checked and i don't really see any hate about Fabberge. We've always shipped out the products, never did we screw anyone over. Do search before making this kind of accusations please.Quote:
Originally Posted by GrabberOrange
1. You specified you weren't going to carry 3s products. Which is a general statement any company would make on the two most popular sites of the platform.Quote:
Originally Posted by 3kgtSL91
2. Fix your search button.
Well I can't blame IPS. It's much easier to cater to the brain-dead mindless GM die-hard drones...than it is to actually give 2 shits about platforms that actually contain originality.
Unfortunately you are not privi to the stories on the other site. You would not be sayng that.Quote:
Originally Posted by IPD
All the more reason for me to disregard. If the GOOD 3/s forum isn't good enough for their BS press-releases, then I guess I don't need to be doing business with them anyways. That's something that's been grinding my gears for a while.
What a joke..
what do you mean by good forum? i thought this one is the good one since it's owned by 3s enthusiast?Quote:
Originally Posted by IPD
Well, I'm disappointed, because we don't have a lot of vendors period, and you guys always had some good options. If you had been more consistent I am sure you would still have a strong 3/s following.
This right here. I did like the offerings. Almost pulled the trigger to buy stuff a few times, but I just couldn't get past the horror stories.Quote:
Originally Posted by Forest Gump
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Originally Posted by Forest Gump
Another one here.Quote:
Originally Posted by GrabberOrange
I've added the extended capacity oil pan to a shopping cart more than a few times. But after searching the forums and seeing people who ordered them and waited extended times for delivery I never pulled the trigger.
It is a shame, IPS helped me a lot with technical help over the phone while I was doing my TT conversion on my old '95. I also bought the majority of my parts from them for that job.
-John
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The last item I bought from Fabberage was the oil cooler, great kit. I got in on the group buy.
Also, my old IPS downpipe for my '95 was the best downpipe I ever owned. It was a 1st gen set up, otherwise it would be on my '99 now.
-John
I love my ips extended capacity pan and I don't think it took more than a week to get it shipped.
Don't tell me this. I don't have the extra mod money right now to get one. haha :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Forest Gump
-John
i am not announcing, i am thanking those that supported us.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrGonzo
well, that was black friday on 2013 if I remember right.
i tried. that was the whole reason behind the split to actually have product on the shelves, to have decent shipping out times, etc. i wanted to bring new products out as well, some cnc, some new style exhausts, etc, but without support from the platform, there is no point in spending money on R&Ding all this if we will only sell a couple. unfortunately R&D is not cheap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Forest Gump
"without support from the platform"
I think you could have plenty of support if so much bad history wasn't already made. It's a lot harder to build trust and confidence when starting in the negative then it does when even. We aren't idiots a simple name change doesn't clear the slate.
I remember was it last year or the year before? The IPS customer service thread on the other site, tons of promises tons of "we're going to do better XXXX" then what.. A few weeks later same old shit. Majority of people have just come to expect this is the way IPS / former owners / partners operate.
i understand that, but it wasn't a simple name change, it was a complete separation of two companies for that reason. so that fabberge can provide products on time, etc. intention was not to fool anyone, it had good intentions. ips should of been closed a long time ago. i tried to make it right, yes, that is why i made that post a long time ago. unfortunately it was rotted beyond repair. fabberge on the other hand i tried my best to keep reputation up, i shipped out products as soon as i possibly could. company kept small (all new people too) so it can operate better and provide customers with positive experience. i understand everyones attitude towards my companies and where the lack of interest is coming from. that is why, as much as i didn't want to, we are discontinuing our 3s items.Quote:
Originally Posted by LeRoyDL
I got an AC delete kit yesterday that I just ordered earlier this week, and was hoping to get an oil cooler kit when I had more funds. Shame you're cutting back on most products, like the tubular crash bar and extended capacity oil pan.
I missed some of the Skillard products I wanted too, but with a car down for over 3 1/2 years, I didn't spend much on upgrades, and now I wish I did. But, being unemployed for the last 3 months (and still), it's difficult to do.
Never dealt with IPS so I won't comment on that, but the limited bit of business I did with Fabberge, I'm happy with.
Is there a list of products, or a page on the site?