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BEWARE OF CARISMO DESIGN, Carbon Steering Wheels
Hello fellow owners. New here. The reason i signed up is because i wanted to warn fellow owners about a scam I recently came across. Small backstory, I recently picked up a new to me Performante, and the first mod i wanted to do was a fancy custom carbon fiber steering wheel. After some searching, i came across a company called Carismo Design "Carismo_Design" on instagram. They seemed to be pretty well reputed. Their page showed definite promise of high quality products, backed up with professional looking photos of their various "exclusive" products. After discussing pricing with the owner, Kirill Zaitsev, he sent me pricing for a package deal including one for my SVJ, and offered me a "20% off" deal if I purchased both. Everything seemed to check out, despite the fact of him not even having a website for his business. However after shopping around I found out that his pricing with the "discount" was much higher vs all the other vendors. Yet I was still ok and willing with the pricing initially as it seemed to be a high quality piece made using an OEM Lamborghini CORE steering wheel, fooled by the photos on his page.
One point he was very solid on was that his steering wheels were made IN HOUSE, BY HIM in the USA!!! As someone who is very particular about purchases, i decided to do some more research and found out that this was TOTALLY FALSE!! A quick 5 minute google search resulted in me finding "his" "premium " products all over Aliexpress. MADE IN CHINA. His products are made in CHINA, yet he was charging me a heavy premium while advertising it as an "OEM" Lamborghini steering wheel.
After confronting him about this fact, his persona changed from speaking to me in a professional manner to totally rude and unprofessional. Clearly showing that he was caught. This is horrible business practice. I would have been totally OK with everything, if he was upfront about this fact from the beginning. However he is charging a triple 3x MARKUP for products he is buying in bulk from in China, and assuring customers that they are made locally. BEWARE!!
Just wanted to give other owners a heads up about this company shady business practice!! I will post screenshots if necessary.
Thank you
Hello fellow owners. New here. The reason i signed up is because i wanted to warn fellow owners about a scam I recently came across. Small backstory, I recently picked up a new to me Performante, and the first mod i wanted to do was a fancy custom carbon fiber steering wheel. After some searching, i came across a company called Carismo Design "Carismo_Design" on instagram. They seemed to be pretty well reputed. Their page showed definite promise of high quality products, backed up with professional looking photos of their various "exclusive" products. After discussing pricing with the owner, Kirill Zaitsev, he sent me pricing for a package deal including one for my SVJ, and offered me a "20% off" deal if I purchased both. Everything seemed to check out, despite the fact of him not even having a website for his business. However after shopping around I found out that his pricing with the "discount" was much higher vs all the other vendors. Yet I was still ok and willing with the pricing initially as it seemed to be a high quality piece made using an OEM Lamborghini CORE steering wheel, fooled by the photos on his page.
One point he was very solid on was that his steering wheels were made IN HOUSE, BY HIM in the USA!!! As someone who is very particular about purchases, i decided to do some more research and found out that this was TOTALLY FALSE!! A quick 5 minute google search resulted in me finding "his" "premium " products all over Aliexpress. MADE IN CHINA. His products are made in CHINA, yet he was charging me a heavy premium while advertising it as an "OEM" Lamborghini steering wheel.
After confronting him about this fact, his persona changed from speaking to me in a professional manner to totally rude and unprofessional. Clearly showing that he was caught. This is horrible business practice. I would have been totally OK with everything, if he was upfront about this fact from the beginning. However he is charging a triple 3x MARKUP for products he is buying in bulk from in China, and assuring customers that they are made locally. BEWARE!!
Just wanted to give other owners a heads up about this company shady business practice!! I will post screenshots if necessary.
Thank you