It is simple, if your lathe has been set up in China you are making clones and are unethical and quite possibly responsible for starving 1st world grandmothers, if you set your lathe up in, say, the US then you have produced an original and the more you charge, the more your customers will do your advertising for you.
OMG, so true! LMAO. In my opinion, "there is nothing new under the sun" Do you think out of the 9 billion+ people on this planet that you are the only person to ever have an idea? And when you do, do you think that no one else will ever have the same idea? If you want a TRUE original, worthy of charging obscene amounts of money for, get it patented. Then, in paying for the patent, you have justified the outrageous cost of your product. Just slapping a serial number on it, doesn't make it original or justify an extra $100 on the price tag. You spent maybe, at most, what?...$20 in materials? Come off it, and stop crying. Either move to mass production or stop crying about it. Supply and demand is one thing, "status symbol" is another.
If you really want people to rush to your product, make it quality, make it cheap and have a line waiting at the door for each and every one you produce. You want to make money? Invest in a shop and start mass producing it. If it truly is quality, and something innovative, people will be forced to only use it. Why have a select few vapers paying gobs of money, when you can have ALL vapers using your idea exclusively because it just works.
The thing with fasttech is, they have found a loophole in the system and it works. People aren't patenting their ideas and getting cloned. Fasttech is simply a vessel we all use to find these products, priced the way they should be, and purchase them.
*Stepping down from soap box*