Integrity on the Vendor's Front........

[NiNi]

Just had to put this out here and vent..........

If you've been around here a bit, we've all heard the story of Boba's Bounty, another vendor taking another's name and/or juice name.

Now a B & M has opened using a variant of "Alice in Vapeland": "Alice n Vaporland". Now this B & M wants to say the vaping community should come together to support each other and they didn't have a clue about AiV............

I say BULLOCKS!
A B & M starts up in September of this year in Texas, and wants to say they have never heard of Alice in Vapeland, except a "Google" search that named the same in the UK. ???????????

As the vaping community, do we give our support to a business that BLATANTLY uses a name, just 3 letters in difference from the original AiV?

Sorry for the vent, but I just see a vape store cashing in on another vendors good name and future customer base and it chaps my hide!

 

[EvilZoe]

Just had to put this out here and vent..........

If you've been around here a bit, we've all heard the story of Boba's Bounty, another vendor taking another's name and/or juice name.

Now a B & M has opened using a variant of "Alice in Vapeland": "Alice n Vaporland". Now this B & M want to say the vaping community should come together to support each other and they didn't have a clue about AiV............

I say BULLOCKS!
A B & M starts up in September of this year in Texas, and wants to say they have never heard of Alice in Vapeland, except a "Google" search that named the same in the UK. ???????????

As the vaping community, do we give our support to a business that BLATANTLY uses a name, just 3 letters in difference from the original AiV?

Sorry for the vent, but I just see a vape store cashing in on another vendors good name and future customer base and it chaps my hide!

Nevermind the bollocks.

 

[FringeChief68]

I say we go to their house and Pet their Cat BACKWARDS

 

[NiNi]

I say we go to their house and Pet their Cat BACKWARDS

I'm in!!!!! And don't forget balloons: Static and Cats do NOT play well with each other!

 

[KjAthena]

Lets assume that the name was a mistake and they did not intend to piggyback on the AiV name.... I just registered Alice N Vaporland (the impostor name) here in the state of Florida...wonder if I should use it to piggyback on any business they may have built just because I legally can ?


Ummmm Nope I have integrity

 

[balwin]

I say we go to their house and Pet their Cat BACKWARDS

Now now you two, the poor kitty didn't name the place. Be kind to the cat please!?!

 

[BernieVideo]

Ya know, there is only so many ways to incorporate the words vape, vapor, vaping into a name. In fact, they may ALL have been used already.

If Alice wants to sue Alice, then fine.

But my opinion is, these people who opened the B&M had no idea of the e-juice company and thought they were being rather brilliant.

Now they have ordered the sign and cards and stationary. Kinda too late to turn back now.

Do they also make e-juice under that brand name?

 

[Train2]

If it's just a B&M, then little harm done. They might get a few customers who think it's AIV, but that's not really HARM to AIV.
Now if they start selling juice online - THAT is a different story, and would infuriate me.
(I still think I'd have a more adamant response if something i created was blatantly misrepresented like Boba's...)

 

[boborone]

I go to a B&M place called Wicked Hot Vapor. There is another called Wycked Vapor about 20 miles from here. Heh, just is what it is. But they are both very good places and have great reps from each.

 

[NiNi]

Lets assume that the name was a mistake and they did not intend to piggyback on the AiV name.... I just registered Alice N Vaporland (the impostor name) here in the state of Florida...wonder if I should use it to piggyback on any business they may have built just because I legally can ?


Ummmm Nope I have integrity

Yep, KjA, we KNOW what they're doing, side stepping questions on they FB page...."ignorance is bliss" doesn't cut it. It would be like using the name "Mt. Bakerr", "Haloe", or "Five Prawns". I don't think the owners have been in the vaping "community" much at all.

 

[dr g]

Meh. Not the same name and a B&M primarily serves its local community. It's not like the alice in wonderland imagery doesn't go with vaping.

 

[NiNi]

Do they also make e-juice under that brand name?

Yes, they make their own juice under that name.

 

[WillyZee]

well if they start selling juices with the same names as AIV ... like AVapors did with Bobas ... then it is the same thing.

If not ... then AIV just has to accept there will be companies with similar names.

 

[EvilZoe]

If they sell them any other day of the week than Tuesday we'll know it's an honest mistake.


Yes, this is a joke post.

 

[NiNi]

Alice in Vapeland also supplies various B & M's around the country.....also the recipient of the 2013 Spinfuel Choice award.
I watched my dad go through a very similar situation with his business name, bottom line, a unique name being duplicated is done more for riding the coat tails of an established business than anything else. JMO

 

[Train2]

LOL. I'm gonna start selling juice branded "Five Prawns". It'll taste like shrimp.

Yep, KjA, we KNOW what they're doing, side stepping questions on they FB page...."ignorance is bliss" doesn't cut it. It would be like using the name "Mt. Bakerr", "Haloe", or "Five Prawns". I don't think the owners have been in the vaping "community" much at all.

 

[FringeChief68]

If I was going to steal a name it would be Planet of the Vapes that is the coolest name I seen

But you have to think about this as if it was YOU!
Say you was the one that built from the ground up and everything else that comes with starting a New Business, and some one comes along and steals your name? How would you feel? And wonder if they run that name into the ground?

 

[NiNi]

If I was going to steal a name it would be Planet of the Vapes that is the coolest name I seen

But you have to think about this as if it was YOU!
Say you was the one that built from the ground up and everything else that comes with starting a New Business, and some one comes along and steals your name? How would you feel? And wonder if they run that name into the ground?

^^^^That's where I'm coming from^^^^

 

[EvilZoe]

If I was going to steal a name it would be Planet of the Vapes that is the coolest name I seen

But you have to think about this as if it was YOU!
Say you was the one that built from the ground up and everything else that comes with starting a New Business, and some one comes along and steals your name? How would you feel? And wonder if they run that name into the ground?

How could a business like a B&M store for vaping even GO into business without being aware of what is available on the internet, especially something that comes up by autosuggestion when one starts typing Alice In Va.... into Google?

What sane person doesn't check out the NAME of their business before officially NAMING the business??

I'm sorry but I can't swallow this.

 

[danca90]

I've got a B&M who carries Alice in Vapeland, and has a house juice called honey boo boo's bounty. Not related, but I've always liked honey boo boo's bounty.