Re: ShopTalk: Selling it

[Steve \"Cub\" Culbreth]

TFlan,   Of course it is a personal choice. However, I have never, purposefully, knowingly, with intent, made or sold a club to someone as looking like, sounding like, or otherwise imitating an OEM club. I just absolutely would rather loose a sell than do it, and I have lost sales. This is one reason that I don't buy many clubheads, or really any clubheads, from Dynacraft anymore. They all look like copies whether they are intended to or not.   If a customer says they want a Taylor Made look alike, I tell them to go to a pro shop and buy the real thing. My clubs are better!   That's just me ;-)   Cub ----- Original Message ----- From: tflan To: ShopTalk Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 7:16 AM Subject: ShopTalk: Selling it Hi;   It appears that the consensus about selling and ethics is pretty much in agreement as to the driving range issue. Simply selling a club out of one's bag isn't unethical, opening up a "business" at the range without the owner's permission is grossly unethical. I agree with that.   O.K. Now that we have that settled, here's another one for the ethicists on board our happy little electronic ship. Is anyone, hobbyist, cut and glue guy, professional, at all concerned over making clubs that are, if not exact duplicates of OEM stuff, close enough to be suspect? I think the most egregious example of this are the Ping Anser clones by Bettinardi and Cameron in the "big name" section of the business, and every other Chinese copy - there are dozens of brands - we all have assembled. Add to that the multiple copies of Callaway, Titleist, Cobra, TaylorMade, Mizuno, etc., and you may have an ethical dilemma.   So, has anyone sold any of that stuff and felt bad about it later? Or is it simply a matter of "I gotta make a living and besides, everyone else is doing it."   Is there anything unethical about selling that stuff?   TFlan