jch79
**Do Not Feed The Vegan**,
They could have all the flashlights in the world, and these *******s still wouldn't see the light. :shakehead
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Now now, don't turn this thread into a nationalistic thing. There are lots of custom builders on CPF from other countries (Steve Ku's amazing creations spring to mind).
If you really want to prevent this kind of blatant copying, the solution is simple - don't buy it and don't advertise for them by giving them a bunch of free publicity. They're going to do it either way, so just let them wither and die out.
Now now, don't turn this thread into a nationalistic thing. There are lots of custom builders on CPF from other countries (Steve Ku's amazing creations spring to mind).
If you really want to prevent this kind of blatant copying, the solution is simple - don't buy it and don't advertise for them by giving them a bunch of free publicity. They're going to do it either way, so just let them wither and die out.
In fairness, almost nobody outside of CPF has ever heard of a SPY 007, and anyone seriously considering buying one of these is not going to be swayed by whistleblowing that it's a copy of a limited-production light an order of magnitude more expensive.I'm not surprised someone would want to copy it but it is not the most straightforward of designs and would require quite a bit of work to make even if it is a ripoff. Of course it's a bit easier when someone else has already done all the engineering work for you.:ironic: I assumed the eastern copiers would just prefer to copy something they could easily do on a lathe just like the millions of other lights they are used to making. :shrug:
It's not that simple. We're not borrowing money from them. We sell them I-O-Us so we can justify printing more money, and in exchange we buy their goods with that money. At the end of the day, we have stuff we want, and they have a pile of cash they can ONLY spend in the United States, because the United States is the ONLY place in the world that US Dollars are legal currency. That means we have a functioning economy now, and the promise of China buying stuff from us to keep our economy functioning in the future. It actually *is* a stable situation, which is why it's been going on so long -- though social conservatives love to twist it around and make it sound like we're indebted to those filthy red Commies, because that helps them get votes from certain segments of the American populace.If they can copy our downed stealth aircrafts, iPhones, etc.; they can obviously knock off any custom light builders designs in their sleep.
As long as we continue to borrow their money and not increase the tariffs on these goods, the problem will only continue.
It should be of no surprise that our government has a blind eye to the many questionable and unlicensed products China is dumping on the U.S. markets.
I do classify this as a nationalistic thing. Every manufacturer should have the rights and protections from our governments to design, build and distribute their products without the threat of China or any emerging third world country threatening their existence.
Trade imbalances are impossible to sustain forever. Eventually China (or whoever ends up with China's stash of U.S. Dollars) will have to spend that money in the United States. Sure, we're "bleeding" money like crazy into other countries right now -- but ultimately U.S. Dollars are only valuable here, and here is where their owners will have to spend them. Someone PMed me with the factoid that oil is bought using U.S. Dollars, but what will oil suppliers do with all the U.S. Dollars they've collected from their customers? They can't very well buy their own oil with their U.S. Dollars, that accomplishes nothing, so they'll have to spend it here eventually.If I buy into the stable situation concept; why should we tolerate a disparity pertaining to our trade imbalance? Certainly has nothing to with social conservative views. I think this falls under the guidance of Economics 101.
Visit their website now and it seems that all references to the imitation have been removed. Does it mean that they completely abandon it?
Visit their website now and it seems that all references to the imitation have been removed. Does it mean that they completely abandon it?
?CPF FTW!
Trade imbalances are impossible to sustain forever. Eventually China (or whoever ends up with China's stash of U.S. Dollars) will have to spend that money in the United States. Sure, we're "bleeding" money like crazy into other countries right now -- but ultimately U.S. Dollars are only valuable here, and here is where their owners will have to spend them. Someone PMed me with the factoid that oil is bought using U.S. Dollars, but what will oil suppliers do with all the U.S. Dollars they've collected from their customers? They can't very well buy their own oil with their U.S. Dollars, that accomplishes nothing, so they'll have to spend it here eventually.
So, since the money will have to come back to the United States eventually, it's a good thing for us to tolerate trade imbalances for a while (which may well be decades or centuries), because that trade imbalance causes two things to happen: 1) it allows other nations to build themselves up to the point that they can afford to be our customers in the future, and 2) it gives them a significant interest in not attacking the United States for the foreseeable future, because then their U.S. Dollars would become worthless.
This is getting way off-topic now, but I did want to make the point that if other countries have piles of U.S. Dollars in their banks, that's actually a good thing. They'll have to spend them here eventually, and they won't want anything bad to happen to us until they've spent all that money.
I lvoe my SPY Tri-V, by the way.
First off, let me say that I sent an email to this company the moment I read this OP. However, I didn't post because I tend to agree with Fred. This is a POS in Spy clothing...nothing more. . . .