So let's say I am a blue collar hardworking person that comes up with a great idea. I test the idea out use it, make some for my friends, and everybody says it is incredible. So I decide to put it out there to the market and see what it does, and it is creating 100% satisfaction. I patent it, develop a manufacturing game plan, and I choose rather than sending it to China to mass produce, instead to keep manufacturing in America so I can stay on top of the quality associated with my brand. I hire American workers, and I now have to pay insurance, taxes, payroll taxes, payroll, rent, materials, etc, so to do this, I need to price the item a bit higher, but the quality you are getting on this item is extraordinarily high. There is high demand for my item, I sell them much faster than I can make them no matter how much I expand. Customers may have to be patient, but the item they will receive is worth it.
Then some Chinese manufacturer decides to carbon copy my item, put my company name on their product, mass produce it, and sell it worldwide.
They steal my idea, my brand, don't pay me a dime for any of it, and if the quality is poor, my name gets associated with it, and insult to injury, you get people out there not only buying it and telling others where they could buy it, but justifying it because of high demand and cost of the original that I created with all the costs built in.
Just to bring it home, the creator of the authentic Billet Box gets to lose out on that on all that revenue while he just had a baby.
This is the mindset I think about when it comes to clones. Justify the purchase all you want, but please keep it to yourself. I feel clones stifle innovation.
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