I personally have had lots of issues with China made stuff, especially their cheap "pop" metal everything is made of. When paying for an expensive American made product typically your getting better quality. The way I see it is someone has a lot of time in designing/engineering a quality part such as the Currie. Maybe it only costs them $50 to make an antirock, but your paying for quality control and testing that backs that product. I fully understand the costs associated with a good product.
OK, so if the Govt. leaves it to the patent holder to enforce Rockjock needs to decide whether that is their best course of action. Personally I very much doubt it would do them much good with online sellers based in another country that has a different cultural model and cares little about patents. That kind of suggests taking out patents is a bit of a waste of time and money.
100%, if consumers decide to buy the copy rather than the original ultimately one consequence could be the stream of new innovative products dries up. Nice bit of game theory, many will want lots of other people to buy the original at a higher price to fund future injovatoon, while they buy the knock off version and save some cash.
Even in quantity, you can't get the torsion bar made for that cost. There is 20 minutes in machine time, plus cut to length, and splining. Once that is done then it is heat treated and then straightened. Best I can see if you do 500 at a time is very close to 75-80 bucks just for the bar. The link ends are going to be 20-22 bucks each in large quantity. Between the link ends and bar there is 150-170 bucks.
Based on what I have read on here if I ever invested in something like this I'd get a Swayloc, so Antirock copies are not that big an issue to me at the moment. But, as others have said it does seem to me that the outrage about this is down to two factors first the copy is Chinese and second it is a copy of a Currie / RockJock product.I have the real anti rock!
The biggest problems in Australia anyway is the "Made In" which allows manufacturers to use Chinese produced parts assembled in AU! In AU we make from scratch absolutely nothing anymore except world copyright Aboriginal Dot paintings!
Empires rise, empires fall. Always have, probably always will.
Amazon has that one for $110 less.
I saw it under the name AntifaRock.
My disgust is not based on either of those two factors.
It is a blatant copy. It only exists because we have a culture in the US of demanding lower prices for the "same" products which has caused us to devolve into a society that values price above all else. No one ever brags about paying more but let someone go buy a 50,000 dollar car and beat the poor salesman out of half of his 1000 dollar commission and they'll brag to everyone how they fucked the dealer.
