Clones every where!

Everyone remembers Dolly The cloned sheep and the disturbances that rippled through the world as to men playing god when it came to proliferation of life.
But what about cloning E-cig Products? Where does it start, stop and begin?

Looking around at all that has come out for the E-cig world this industry is exploding. People around the world are taking interest and noticing what a great thing we have going on and I am proud to be a part of it. One thing that in my own personal opinion is shaming our industry to an extent that it surpasses words and thoughts past the imaginable reaches. While the saying, "immitation is the highest form of flattery." may hold true, flattery isnt what you feel when someone took your idea, your creation and your innovation to the next level by straight up ripping off your design. The trend seems to be that creating a coop for copy cat designs and destroying a business in the process.
The handful of instances recent which come to mind would have to be MMvapors The DiD atomizer http://mmvapors.com/ Now these guys were the creators of the DiD atomizer and while the genesis atomizer is not their design the did so in a way which had not been done before. Now a days genesis atomizers are EVERYWHERE. One can be had for as little as $20. The higher end units can sell for as much as $250.
The most recent has been Imeo which has recieved a good old kick to the chops with the introduction of knock off telescoping GG knock offs and Odysseus clones. I know some say they have ceased production of the odysseus so who cares? Well there might be a reason that you should.

Cloning can level playing feilds and knock down exhaustively high pricing models and force manufacturers and designers to reconsider pricing and company structure but as we have seen in the case of the DID , They destroyed this companies market. MMvapors went through the process of creating, designing and retailing a highly desirable product (kudos MM, I appluad you) But when the first knockoffs arrived in town I am 100% sure that more than half of mmvapors potential client base fell off. If you see a real did (not a knockoff going by the sardonic names chid, dud or chud) people just arent seeing a return on investment in terms of appreciable resale. In the classifieds these products are one of those items that you would be better off holding onto rather than selling just because of the price hit you take on resale. When the original product sold for $100 plus overseas shipping for those of us in the US it was a hard nut to swallow. The coops that ran for the DiD clone ran for a mere $7 each. Even if you were to argue that the original is of much higher quality ( I cant disagree ) It is hard to rationalize spending nearly $120 for an atomizer when you can have 16 units of the cheaper knockoffs for the price of one original. How can you rationalize the longevity of 1 device versus 16? These numbers may be skewed a bit as My intent is not to be 100% financially accurate but more to describe the desparity and injustice that exist to legitimate business vs clones coming in from overseas.
I dont think this will change as the practice is too widely accepted and the benefit too great for the majority of consumers to ignore.
Oddly I think this how the US became a nation of consumers rather than a nation of builders. Patriotism and patronage of patriotism are all but nice thoughts. A day in a by gone era.

If we won't invest in a moral cause and sellout to the lowest bidder hw do we expect to see things we like survive? How do we expect people to share, be compassionate and mindful if we ourselves are not divisive and steadfast in pursuit of morality? Who are we anymore and what would we think of ourselves for supporting the acts which encourage companies to continue unethical practices which have become so damaging to companies who have served us so very well.
Is this really the direction we want to go? Is this really how you want to see yourself and know you helped do this to a pioneering company? I am ashamed to say I am part of this problem. I participate in clone co'oping.

I am thinking something's got to change and E-cig users are the only ones to make the difference. You and I , the consumers.

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