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fighting with someone who knows what there talking about and telling them there wrong isn't going to get you anywhere. If you read it from a neutral state of mind, there is nothing but good advise in the post that seems to be bugging you.

I'm not fighting nor am I being aggressive,

I can't join Turboford right now because I use Hotmail.

Simply put, he said ante up and do it yourself, I did take offense to it as it implies I am trying to pass the cost on to the consumer because I don't want to pay for it myself. The truth is I can't. Am I telling him he's wrong because I can't follow his advice and pay for it all at once?

Maybe a better term would be stubborn?
Example:

There are PLENTY of other free e-mail accounts you could set up to remedy that and open the door to other potential customers...

Just a suggestion.

That's being stubborn?
I did email them and was told I can't use any "free" email service. So I'm not breaking my back to find a way to join another forum.

I don't see a difference. Whether you can't finance the project on your own because you don't have the capital to do so, or won't finance it because you don't want to risk the investment. Either way you are putting the start-up costs on the customer.

As another example, do a search on here or NATO for lowering springs and you will find hundreds of inquires of people wanting to know where they can be bought because most of the well known companies no longer make them specifically for our cars.
Several years ago I talked to Eibach and was told that they would do another production run of their discontinued spring set if I ordered 100 sets.
Like you, I just don't have the capital to purchase them and then sit on them and sell them a set at a time.
In a short amount of time I found enough people that were "interested" to cover 50% of the order needed but when it came down to people that were willing to actually commit to placing an order with their money it was less than 10%.
If I had the money, I would still order the 100 sets today because I feel that the demand is still there but there just aren't enough people willing to commit to it all at once.

All Chuck is trying to do is make you aware of the market that there is for these kinds of things and not to expect everyone to come running to buy one unless you have a working and successful product that is ready to ship.

What you are proposing sounds very promising and if you had a product that showed proof that it worked as advertised for the amount of money you are expecting it to sell for, I would be a customer. No offense, but I personally don't see how it could be prototyped, built, and imported for only $150.00 even without having it ceramic coated.

Brent

You answered your own question with a resounding YES in my opinion.

Best of luck to you...

I Could go on for quite a bit.....

I'll just wish you the best of luck again instead. 

I wouldn't put a penny up on a product that doesn't exist yet.

If you came up with a prototype and dyno tested against stock, I'm sure you'd gather a hell of a lot more interest.  I've been in your situation twice...but it never went through because of how difficult it was to get the start-up money.

Good luck,
Don