How Gabe from T3 Screwed over his own Sponsered Driver

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Matt,

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I can't debate on the quality of T3 gear, what I've seen from them looks good but I have no experience to compare. I've heard good and bad stories about shipping. There is no way to comment for me on whether Gabe is good or not but so far I have no reason to doubt his products. If you have other experience with his products its always interesting to hear about especially if you can back it up with facts.

As for the whole Al story, the guy is pissed off and reading his story made me for one, doubt whether I should take it on face value. He's to goody goody about himself, I don't think what he wrote comes near the exact full truth, it just reads like a guy throwing a whole lot of dirt. It just doesn't read right. But thats my humble opinion as someone who also doesn't know Al at all.

That still does not rule the possibility that Gabe screwed him for whatever personal reasons Gabe might have. But it does seem all the more likely that the problems that started between Gabe and Al took longer to develop and climaxed in Gabe withdrawing his support. You have to wonder, why would a company like T3 invest a lot of money into a track/drift car, regardless if they do it right or not, and suddenly pull out of it. You don't come to such a decision over night, especially not if your reputation is on the line. You also have to wonder, if Al thinks the T3 stuff is crap and Gabe didn't listen to him, and Gabe treats everybody so badly, why the f would you want to promote their company for 2 hole years? If it really was that bad, he should have walked away long ago.

Whether that makes Gabe the good guy, or Al, and who's the bad guy in this? How should we ever know? If Al's pissed at Gabe, he'll probably have thickened his story, if you judge Gabe on such a story, I think you're just doing yourself wrong. But on the other hand, could be Gabe didn't do things nicely either. Its really hard to judge someone properly if you don't know what exactly happened, and you only have one side of the story, the side in which Gabe always is the bad guy as Al naturally won't see himself as such and I can't blame him for that, we all do that

If you personally have bad experiences with Gabe, thats a whole different story. I know more stories, some of personal friends whom I believe fully, who've had shipping problems with T3. Most were resolved in the end, one or two remain open. I also know of many stories where they delivered fast and the goods are still mounted on those peoples cars and the drivers are still smiling happily and would buy from T3 again and as such do so.

In the end though, trying to start a business of my own, I know how damn hard it is to put the reputation of your company in the hands of others like shipping companies that really don't give a damn. Things go wrong, thats part of the risk of running a business. There will always be one or two customers that think you're an asshole and screwed them over, probably they have good reasons to think so, but you can't please everyone. You can only do your best.