When a wild African dog makes a kill he immediately calls out to the rest of the pack to share the kill. The older dogs will more often than not become submissive, rolling on their backs and licking the younger dog's faces to let them know that they would like them to eat first. As soon as the younger dogs have gotten their fill of the kill, the older dogs become their usual dominant selves, nipping at the younger dogs to allow them to finish off the carcass. When wild dogs are ambushed by lions, rather than picking up their young in their jowls like they can often be seen doing as they trot about the African wilderness, they break into two groups at first. Some of the elder dogs push the bottoms of the puppies toward safety, before running away with the others. No puppy is picked up and carried. On average, 3 quarters of the puppies from each new litter are killed by lions. They want the other puppies to not only see one of their siblings get killed, they want to drill that danger into their heads so that the remaining puppies memorize that face of danger and how to get away from it. They teach each other to hunt and the politics within a pack often changes to allow each male a chance at the top hunter, alpha male spot. Interestingly, wild African dogs are one of the most sophisticated hierarchies in the animal kingdom, complete with both alpha male, AND an alpha female, something that is only seen in moderately intelligent animals, such as apes, elephants, and human beings with their multiple clans, such as their families, friends, schools, organizations and careers. If your in a fast developing technology its sink or swim and that is the nature of our global economy in these days. If you want to assign moral guidelines to your socioeconomic belief system, be my guest, but as long as American companies depend on and prescribe to the politics of the industrial revolution of the 40s when its clearly a new age, they run the risk of sinking. Your not going to get as much money from a new invention these days as you used to. Life is not fair and for every right move you make as an inventor and business owner there are 200 million lions with their own share of hardships just dying to eat you. The rules of the game are changing and if you don't adapt your strategy, then be ready to die. There are plenty of elders nudging you and your American brothers, its up to you as a self sufficient business to employ tactics to get to the safety of the brush. What do you think a genius like Zen would have to say about copies of his device? Do you really think he wasn't wise enough to see it coming? No, he was wise enough to see the genesis design, and improve on it. He was wise enough to know a niche when he saw one. He was smart enough to know that this forum is a breeding ground of people wanting and willing to show off limited edition, specialty devices that will make them , feel special. He was wise enough to know that when a group of people come together with a common interest, if you can do something to earn their trust and curiosity you can lead them. He took that alpha dog spot and he knows that others will employ tactics to take that spot from him and he knows that at any time his children could be eaten by wolves. He knows you can nudge your product in the right direction but if your product doesn't continue to evolve and excite your niche market the lions will eat it up.
I am 21 years young and I grew up into the millennium. The highschools were full of loan sharks, extortionists & drugs. kids selling candy bars and soda cans out of their backpacks. Capitalism is alive and well in our schools, trust me. In 11th grade I was suspended for selling soda out of my backpack. The principal thought I was dealing drugs. I started selling soda and candy bars out of my backpack as soon as the state banned junk food in our vending machines... My candy bars (bought bulk at walmart @ 75 cents each) were sold 2.50 and my soda was 4 dollars. I was able to sell my candy and soda at a premium when the market went bare, when soda and candy became rarities. If I walked around with nature bars covered in chocolate for 75 cents, I would probably get more sales on average but it would take up my entire lunch period.
I would love for you to tell me that mod makers and juice makers have not taken advantage of US? Your telling me that after the 1st 3-4 runs of the iHybrid, or the Provari, or the GG, they couldn't lower the price by 10 or 20 dollars and increase the amount made to meet the demand? Absolutely not! By doing that you actually decrease the mystic nature of your product in this niche market. And by that political and economical constitution you create for yourself higher demand and a collectors market. Provape doesn't want everyone to have a Provari. They want to put food on their pup's table. Remember when you had to sell your 1st born child to get that vendor's RY4? Do you know how easily they could of spent a portion of their roth IRAs or life savings on a larger order of their juice making supplies, they could have lowered the price of the juice and they could of put their product in every vaper's juice collection. but they didn't, and they don't. They want their product to become sought after, hard to find, they want one purchase to give them a large margin of profit to costs. The Chinese aren't nudging into our rarities market, they sell at cheap prices and they use cheaper materials and cheaper labor that allows them to sell in large quantities... And guess what? They got me. They got me, and 100 of my forum friends to buy their aga-T this month because the price and design appealed to us over the rarity and "specialness" of a more expensive genesis styled product. They are playing the game with the new rules and they are doing well, but at the price of obviously losing the market sector looking for highest quality and rarity/collect-ability. Evolution. Each animal evolved with a different set of adaptations to predators and the harsh nature of reality. That make-cheap-sell-high ethic tends to work out for the foreigners, because if your manufacturing within the US the price of manufacturing is already high. But yet a lot of us, hell, a lot of them, want more US manufacturers to follow suit of other high quality manufacturers believe it or not. Despite the availability of the clones, we still want more US collectable and rare mods. We want more successful US made or well-made mods. Manufacturers are listening because new high quality mods + mod makers are indeed coming out and they don't give a .... that the Chinese copy their design, thats flattering but really, they have the market they want and they know the way things work. I was raised to find a deal, so I am inherently not in the collector mod maker's customer base. The manufacturers are smart enough to see that this forum is a corralled group of steer, just waiting for the next big thing for our collections.
When a wild African dog makes a kill he immediately calls out to the rest of the pack to share the kill.
And I would of never been able to afford or justify spending that 90 bucks on my new SB had I not been using my rebuildable clones. See how things work Buzz old pal? I'll have a ZAP one day too. But I love my Aga-T and nothing makes me more proud on these forums to post a picture of a successful coil on my Aga-T.
