Hey everyone was just introducing myself my name is Josh I am 36. Have been vaping for 15 years plus. I am a fan of nice vape gear. I MTL vape as well as RDL. I vape on a Dani box and limelight Sbs mod. Rotation of Dvarw, taifun, and kayfun atomizers. I joined the forum actually just to post a warning about Dicodes USA being a scam as they just recently took me for $200 dollars for a black kayfun x.
Welcome to ECF Josh,
I’m so sorry to hear your experience with Dicodes USA, as a company they sucks big time.
Although they are called Dicodes, they do not belong to the Dicodes Germany network.
I’m so sorry to hear your experience with Dicodes USA, as a company they sucks big time.
Although they are called Dicodes, they do not belong to the Dicodes Germany network.
So they’re not actually the same company? They may be suable by the real dicodes then
No they are not the same company they are not even affiliated. If you check the Dicodes German website they are not an actual Dicodes supplier.
Then it’s fraud. Copywrite violation too likely. There’s money to be had there. Even if they did copywrite in the US it’s still infringement. This is not a new crime. There are things in place.
The only reason it worked for that indonesian KFC place is KFC were an acronym done in a common font and in that case KFC stood for something completely different. Plus it was in indonesia. Wouldn’t have flown in the U.S. a lawyer would have a field day. The EU and the USA are NOT indonesia. if someone contacted the real dicodes and told them someone in the US was impersonating them and both diluting and mining their brand it would likely be resolved right fast. Dicodes has too much to lose and too much to gain. Also there is both EU AND US law to play with. Foreign socked away assets may be immune from one but not from the other. The Caymans were once a spanish colony. Weird things can happen.
The scammers probably think they are safe because they did something. They are probably wrong. This was an issue in the 19th century too. There are laws in both places. Old and toothy ones.
The chances of losing thier company, any personal assetts, and doing jailtime are not low. The company and the personal assets are likely where the money is.
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They have never belonged to the Dicodes network but they have taken the Dicodes name and put the USA behind it.
Whether Dicodes should have taken Dicodes USA to court is debatable, I don't know how name copying works in this industry. They have been around for so long now that it is rather doubtful whether it is a case.
What I know about Dicodes Germany is that they are strict on who gets to order mods from the factory, it seems to be those who are listed under dealers on the Dicodes website, and Dicodes USA has never been there.
I buy myself, it has happened once where I went to another place, all of Dicodes from Creme de Vape. Keith has a fantastic service!
The “dicodes” bit is the part that matters.
As I understand it, It is not a regular word like “chocolate” or “cow” that could reasonably thought to mean something else. Nor is it an acronym that uses differentTherefore it is the property of the real dicodes further more, they are, or at least purport to be, in the same business. If the aforementioned “kfc” had also sold chicken they would have run (ahem) afowl of that problem. That it is illegal is indisputable. That they are ruining the brand name is also indisputable. There *might* be a statute of limitations thing that complicates matters, but I doubt it.
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