Wiring Harnesses

[sithot]

There is a fellow who makes really nice engine wiring harnesses. He's done one for a friend with a Carrera 3.0 and it is as good as it gets. The friend is an airframe/power specialist who worked for Gulfstream for quite a few years before being hired to handle the fleet for a Fortune 500 company. He's picky as they get, almost to a fault.

The "harness man" was asked to cease his activities over on Pelican as they wanted him to sell through them with a "slight" (ahem) bump in price. (The harness thread was deleted as well)
The critique is how do you advertise and sell a wiring harness out of a catalog? His stuff is made to order and while they can be the same it's inevitable that someone is going to have a car that's been modified and his won't work and then.....well, you know the rest. He-said she-said and all kinds of finger pointing and general unhappiness.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...harnesses.html

I have suggested a very simple website but for now he's going on word of mouth referrals which anybody who has ever sold anything knows is the best advertising there is.

This is a hobby for him as his real job makes this work more or less "child's play". We had a lengthy talk one afternoon and his real job came up. He lost me after the 2nd sentence.

The hobby sure can use the support of cottage industries like his.

Tom

[Hangman]

I would be interested, I need to replace a missing harness on my '67 project.

[sithot]

Thus far he's been doing mid year, SC and Carrera harnesses. I'm sure he could make one because it's a pretty simple piece (ends wise). He would likely need an example to go from.

Tom

[sithot]

Here he is:

http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...ghlight=timmy2

Now get in line...

[sithot]

A thing of....

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...ml#post8246175