Jim bailey - 928 International

Yea Bob I am sure glad I sold that 911 that I had ... But it was an $800 car, that I sold for $12,000... My hair is so long it is hard to tell where it grows from

Red UFO

Maybe if more shark owners bought from Devek instead of Pelican then Devek would be around still?

Why did Devek go down? Lack of business or running from the law?

SharkSkin

Lack of being able to follow through on promises, IMHO. Plus, many customers felt they were lied to about purchases/service/etc (including myself).

bcdavis

Yeah, you get burned a few times, and you start ordering your stuff from other sources.

Typical case of great technical 928 skills, but poor business skills.
Some 928 businesses stay in business, other ones don't.
So obviously some of them have better business skills than others.

But Devek built some amazing cars and engines, and developed some great parts.
And they were really nice people who were cool enough to host Devek Days on a yearly basis.

Hopefully they will stick around the 928 scene and still build some cool stuff now and then.
But running a business is hard work, and takes a lot of time, money, and manpower.

WallyP

A 928 business with "better business skills" - sounds like an oxymoron to me...

If we had better business skills, wouldn't we be in a business where we could make lots of money for the same effort?

milwaukeeshark

A great assesment as always! Thanks Wally!

blitz928

Here's what happened to DEVEK, Here's their current website....



www.designsneakpeek.com/DEVEK/

ew928

How about "bettah business skillz" without being bitten by the 928 bug, Then you'll make mo' money.

Damn 928 addiction.

Hello, my name is "your name."
I own a 928.

dprantl

So... whatever happened to AndyK?

Dan
'91 928GT S/C

shaaark89

website is an unfinished template, phone numbres are dead, devek is dead
can't say it wasn't expected...

pcar928fan

Wait a minute... Are you saying we have LIBERALS here??? I thought this board was EXCLUSIVE to good GOD fearing, gun loving, Bush buddies on the conservative side of the aisle!

Holy crap, I am going to have to find another group to hang out with!

James
Austin, TX

928ntslow

Yeehaw, they're comin out of the wood work now! I haven't seen posts from some of you guys in a very long time. I guess all one has to do is throw the name DEVEK in the title of a thread and the whole community comes to a stop to see what the stink is all about.

Hmmm, speaking of stink, now where were we?...mussells, fish taco's, crushed nuts...

Oh and Red, sounds like you may have some sand in your shorts.

JimBob951

Yeah the website is over 2yrs old. I wanted to buy product 1, here's the description: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.

I think their downfall was when they started to take on the other lines, they grew to big to fast. Things were good at first I think, and I believe some folks from the other forums here on Rennlist worked for them (viperbob and swanders) which was cool. But it seemed that not long after that everyone stated what happened to Devek

6.0-928S

Man that's a reeeeaaal bad visual!!!!!!!!!!!

Hammer

Alan

Sheesh!... I take half a day off reading and come back to this....

Eeek!

...Yep many a Devek train wreck happened before and this brings it all back....

Alan