RDA Authentic vs. Clone
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Mehhhh
This is not a patentable product. Patents expired decades ago. You can copyright the aesthetic design but all an infringer has to do is sell from over seas or make minor design changes.
Selling clones as authentic is one thing. But selling a clone as a clone is just being competitive in a reltatively free market. We could get into the discussion of economic policy, but I'd like to make a more personable point. Should someone have to pay out the ... for a non-novel design simply to make a healthier choice in nicotine usage? I think not. The margins on these things are huge, even at clone price points. Nobody is going to bed hungry because you bought a clone.
I deal with chinese made products A LOT. Not RDAs, but my statement stands.
Welcome to the future. China is no longer a ripoff rival. They are a manufacturing powerhouse and economic partner.
Your authentic may have been manufactured in China and those business are taking insane margins. So who is the worse person: the one who takes huge margins or the one who "copies" a non-patentable, non-novel design and offers it at reasonable prices?
Well in Mexico minimum wage is .5 an hour and we loose business to China based on cheaper labor so let's say .4 an hour for them?
As twisted said the clone/authentic war is over
There are so many low priced authentic rdas rtas etc now we don't need to worry as most of us can afford them
There are so many low priced authentic rdas rtas etc now we don't need to worry as most of us can afford them
I can tell you there are still manufactures in the US that take clones into account and that increases their price. The Velocity is an example.
They have to sell it for more to make up for the loss the clones represent. It would be imposible to make it cheaper and fast enough to compete against China.
I'm yet to see my Authentic Velocity because I had to ship it to Texas to a friend and she won't be here until next week.
Hundreds of percent is a huge margin, no matter how you slice it. I am not even saying these large margins are inherently bad...just that someone willing to take a much smaller margin is not bad.
When something breaks on your car do you only buy OEM parts? Should only OEMs be allowed to market parts?
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Considering the Chinese invented the e-cig and most name brand stuff was designed there, I wonder if this entire thread is invalid.
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I just wanted to know If clones worked as well as authentics and why I was a terrible human if I did accidentally purchase one that was not clearly marked clone or authentic.jwilkers said:
It's cool. Just got irked about everyone else going on about the Chinese.
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It was meant to be stupid. It's how you reply to a stupid argument.
Are you insinuating that a Chinese machinist is quicker than an American machinist? There are plenty of machinists in this country that could cut enough corners to pump out cheap quality parts at an alarming rate if they wanted!!! They just think that standing in front of a machine qualifies them to be paid an alarming wage for merely watching a machine do all the work. All they actually do is put material in the machine and press a button!!! Yet somehow this qualifies them to be paid an ungodly sum of money, and ask an ungodly price for anything they produce!!!
Since you've gone full ......, arent all cars crappy clones of other cars? Wether you buy a Hyundai or a Bently (using this example because Hyundai stole a lot of design cues) it gets you A to B. One thing is for sure, a Hyndai isnt a bently and no one looking at Bentlys is even considering a Hyundai. Therefore Hyundai is not stealing business from Bently.
Again, Im not condoning selling Hyndais as Bentlys...just allowing both to exist in the market without getting sand in some crevices.
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