Why are Clone imports accepted in USA, Europe ?

[CassiusCloud]

where else can you open a coffee shop and call it a tribute/parody,while selling the same product as the one being paid tribute to?
Murica bebee!
Coffee is not our business,we just sell some as something you can drink while you admire this tribute to the place we are paying tribute to.

 

[TheJakeBailey]

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Hana has been throwing a pretty big fit about the clones that just popped up everywhere, and i've seen a lot of threats. I'm interested to see where that goes, but suspect not very far.

 

[hazarada]

Just wait for the iVape, lawsuits all over the place!

 

[Tbev]

I bet a lot of people think that dumb Starbucks is fake, it's in LA. Haha.

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[pt91]

It is the name brand and/or logo that is at the bottom of this. It is not the fact that the consumer knows they are buying a fake. It is the fact that the counterfeiter is using the brand to make their goods more valuable. that is really a simple concept that seems to be hard for many here to understand. Just remove the name and logo/inscriptions from the mods or design and engineer your own.

 

[spewny]

Personally I would prefer that clones came without logos or any printing really. We are buying them for the function, but the logos just blur the line and lead to a lot of people getting scammed. That is similar to how I feel about the Hana clones coming out. It is an aluminum box with off the shelf/pre-fab parts. I personally wish they had done something similar to the Russian where they made improvements to put their own stamp on it, but this is no different than counterfeit Nikes. When the fake is 1/4-1/5 the price, and works at least 90% as well, it will attract a whole new market that, honestly, wouldn't have purchased the original to begin with. As long as people keep doing side-by-side review to extol the benefits of the original, clones are leading to more authentic items being sold...just lose the friggin logos