AJ Racing Selling Fake J's Racing Parts

It was shocking and surprising to hear that AJ-Racing had been found to be selling replicas of J's Racing car parts. This is huge since this is quite a well-known company. The news has spread around various car forums and I've recently read it through REVscene that was just posted few days ago. But then again, I believe this news was from almost a year ago and people are still talking about it.

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Dear Ben Leung First of all, it is almost 9 years since we, J’s Racing, started a business relationship with your company in 2002. We fully acknowledge that your sales & marketing have made the current J’s Racing popular status in the North America and we deeply thank you for that. Unfortunately we have to present you a rather unpleasant notice today. We recently learned that in spite of your status of an official distributor of J’s Racing, you have been copying J’s Racing products in a factory abroad and selling the products as the genuine J’s Racing merchandise. In order to verify the information and to get the clear evidence we actually purchased a product from you for an inspection. Regrettably we found that you not only copied the product but also copied our packing tape and box to make the product look exactly like a genuine J’s Racing product. Now that we have a proof and we consider your conduct as a criminal offense, we no longer can maintain the current business relationship with you. We have already consulted an attorney in the British Columbia and we are ready to take strong legal actions if necessary. We strongly feel that an official distributor should be the one policing the copied or knockoff products. It is outrageous that an official distributor itself sells a copied product as a genuine one. This is an inexcusable conduct even from the social point of view and we will not forgive this kind of crime. Regarding this matter, we are considering the number of actions. We will give you one chance of providing us a sincere response and coming up with an offer for a monetary Our actions include but are not limited to 1) Termination of the distributor status 2) A legal action to demand accounting information on the quantity of the copied products produced and to demand a definite proof for destroying the copied products. 3) Bringing a criminal charges against A&J Racing 4) Disclosure of the issue on our website using your company’s name 5) Disclosure of the issue on the several forums in the world using your company’s name To name several forums, http://www.s2ki.com/ http://www.8thcivic.com/ http://www.nagtroc.org/forums/ http://www.honda-tech.com/ http://hondamarketplace.com/ http://www.fitfreak.net/forums/ http://www.team-integra.net/ http://www.definitivedriving.com/ http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/ 6) Notification of the issue to all the manufacturers J’s Racing has business relationship with 7) Notification of the issue to all the companies J’s Racing has traded with 8) Notification of the issue to all the magazine publishing companies A&J Racing has relationship with 9) Notification of the issue to your father, Anthony Those actions will inflict serious damages to your company. In the business world, the trust is the most important. It is very regrettable you have lost our trust. We will be waiting for your sincere response and a specific compensation offer. The deadline is April 22, 2009. Sincerely J’S RACING Junichi Umemoto J’S RACING Hisaaki Murakami

I'm sure there will be a lot of very disappointed people who bought the parts from AJR to find it it is not the genuine J's Racing. The company wrote a statement on their site regarding the copy products of J's Racing.