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Not ALL speedster owners visit this website. I often wonder how many of the owners just buy it as a toy and when it breaks or they get tired, they move on. These are the same people who are buying gas at one station when another station across the street is selling for $.12 a gallon less. They are different people from you and I. And I think John is damn smart "branding" his product to increase sales volume.
I had a call from a guy wanting to buy my coupe that was a "dealer" for JPS cars in CA. "Carl" was all I got. Never came to anything, but wanted my car because it was on JPS website and said John could not supply quick enough. Was going to use it as a sample. He called me several times and was very interested, but have not heard from him since October. I'm guessing this is the site for his operation. Fits with what he was telling me.
wrt JPS Coupes these days and his S/N 002, which was the green coupe, by my inspection quite a lot has changed. Believe he is at S/N 020 or more by now and has solved some (most?) of the early problems. The coupe he had at Carlisle last year seemed to have many important mods on it vs. the early ones. Also, dealing in sunny, dry SoCal has got to help. I believe the first three Coupes at least (maybe more, who's counting??) have all gone on the resale market.
John can and has built many very nice cars. I'm a little biased, but my opinion is John is his own worst enemy when it comes to customer satisfaction and followthrough. If he does work through a sales and service agent it has the potential to make a dramatic improvement in his results. John could focus on building his cars and leave the customer contact to someone else. JPS could really thrive IF he would let go enough to let it work.
Tom has a good point, and maybe this is what is going on: John has a front man to work w/ the great unwashed. Might be all to the good, except of course for the mark-up for the middle man. But hey, you tend to get what you pay for, right? Good cutomer service costs, one way or the other, and maybe this is how JPS will skin that cat.

Raking JPS over the coals?: No, we are not going there at all; all axes are ground, and all hatchets are burried. We are on to other stuff.
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