My experiences dealing with Zip are based upon decades. Truthfully, I sold thousands of different reproduction parts to Zip for over a decade. This was prior to 1995 and frankly before the internet or the Corvette Forum. So if your horizon is limited in it this historical scope, these are simply plain facts. Not rumors. Not innuendo.
As Dizzy Dean said: It ain't bragging if it actually already happened.
I had to use the Federal Courts to stop Zips Pilfering.
I repeatedly have caught Zip copying repro's.
It's only been 11 years since I first identified this Zip charade.
This fellow at Zip is just a parasite.