UK Toolmaker - Is a Brand Name important?

Has anyone here ever approached a potential client and said you could shoe their horse in a quality fashion, but had to say that you couldn't give them your name?
Chris and Ray, think this outfit is G. Gibson?

I agree with you Ray, but if I was wanting to get a product out I would post a site with info telling a little bit. Everyone knows today it is too easy to con people on the net. Just my opinion.

Ray I have in fact called Farriers in other areas that I was considering moving to (though I never did). I started each conversation with "Hello, my name is Bill Adams...."
The web site looked legit, if it wasn't, it was a lot of work to con someone into buying high end masonry tools.
I live my life with my head down, that's when I do my best work.

I think a company like this should think outside the box and look at America. My name is available to be used for a hammer line. I am also available for public appearances as well. Our slogan can be "The ALLEN has a ring to it!"

A little research just on this site shows that I have done pretty well in the last 2 months contest So I feel as if I have proven myself, and I'm pretty sure the UK would love the American influence.

Can't see that in the Farrier biz, but I see your point here on the forums.

I'll buy a set. With a name like that you could expand into octagonal, 'L' shaped wrenches too.

I have ideas for hammers and flatters. Flatters will have an etched likeness of whomever you like on the striking end To improve accuracy and I dream of a 3lb hammer with a wide face called little sledgy......let me think on some other hammer ideas. This is going to be great. I can see an early retirement around the corner...

Ray more like pre marketing. I was going to tell you it would be best/cheapest /safest not to ask those question, but I don't want to sound threatening.

They said they were tool makers. So give us some insight on their ability to make tools. I never said they did farrier tools.

im just up the road in Thackley , shall have to pop in 1 day

WOW! Firstly, thanks for the constructive replies (those that have been 'Constructive'). Surely, If I'd wanted to sell product directly, I'd have put a link on straight away, and hoped the moderators missed it for long enough to garner some sales. It's not what I'm After. I even removed any link to my Company after a private conversation with Ray to prove this. Thanks Ray for shedding some light for the dubious members, I'll take it a little further and say I full apreciate what Ray is doing by monitoring the forum so well, and finding out peoples intentions. If he didnt, you'd soon have a board full of adverts from Mandy Zhou, selling Oakleys etc..

We are most definately a UK company, and if any of you would like to test my knowledge of the UK, then go ahead. I thought I had worded my opening comment well enough to give an insight as to what we do, without naming any particular brand of tool. If you read the post properly, you'd realise why we dont have a 'Brand' of farrier tools, and why my questions are so relevant in the first place.

Chris, my words about safer/cheaper etc were not meant to intimidate or threaten, more to protect you from any possible grief, legal or otherwise, from a manufacturer you may 'Guess' was our client. If you were to state factually on any forum that you knew who it was, and that it was quality that was a problem, it could impact their sales, and as such, you'd be liable. You'd also be liable for deformation from the manufacturer, unless you had the facts to prove the quality issue. Just because you heard it on the grapevine doesnt mean its true. So far you've been wrong on most of what you said, so I think the advice stands.

I've used forums for research for a number of years, and despite its open/friendly nature, legal arguements are rife, so I pick my words carefully, and avoid making statements I can't substantiate. I'm not sure what's happened before now to make you so sceptical about a legitimate request for information, but I hope the rest of the Farrier world are a little more welcoming!

We have begun contacting Farriers of a level of success, but I won't be using their names in any posts. Again, I'm here to learn, not sell/promote ourselves, or those we work with.

Micheal Allen, we were about to send you some information, but under your name is says 'not so well known'??, but I do like your keys....

Not without an invite!!
Can you call at Birstall and fetch us some donughts/starbucks while your passing? Thackley?? Seems youve got stronger links with Pakistan that we do!

For what it's worth, I don't favor tools bearing farrier's names over those bearing a manufacturer's name I just look for a good quality tool for a fair price.
Don't buy many hammers though, as a good quality one will last a career, but rasps! Do you make those? ??