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jdbailey1206:

--- Quote from: ChanceKJ on November 11, 2014, 01:25:16 am ---Parallel. The 49th Para... Oh just forget it

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Haha

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Oh Canadian humor.  You so silly.
dkersten:
Keep in mind that SAMs is just WalMart's version of Costco, and WalMart has never been afraid to use Chinese knockoffs to blatently rip off patented or copyrighted products.  Just look at Rubbermaid.. Walmart used to sell Rubbermaid products, and signed an exclusivity agreement with them so that all sales of Rubbermaid in the U.S. had to go through WalMart.  It was the price they had to pay to get on the shelves of the biggest retailer in the U.S.  But after they had this agreement, WalMart took the design to China, had them reproduced nearly identically at a fraction of the cost, then dropped the Rubbermaid brand and continued to sell their own Chinese knockoffs in place of them.  Rubbermaid no longer had any retailers in the U.S. when they got dropped, and now the biggest retailer in the U.S. was selling an identical product for less than they could profitably sell their own product, and it drove them into bankruptcy.  Then in a stroke of genius (or pure evil), WalMart swooped in and bought the company out for pennies on the dollar.  Now they owned the Rubbermaid brand name so they shut down the company's manufacturing and started printing the Rubbermaid logo on their Chinese manufactured versions, and have made a killing ever since.  Rubbermaid never had the resources to sue WalMart for the patent infringement before going under.

Aside from sending a letter to WalMart to say "this is an illegal product, we want you to pull it", I doubt much more will happen from this.  It is far more costly to launch a legal battle against WalMart to try to recoup a few thousand dollars in licensing fees than to just let it go and pretend it isn't happening, particularly when your product is already widely available for free on thousands of websites throughout the world. 
pbj:

--- Quote from: dkersten on November 13, 2014, 10:49:40 am ---Then in a stroke of genius (or pure evil), WalMart swooped in and bought the company out for pennies on the dollar.  Now they owned the Rubbermaid brand name so they shut down the company's manufacturing and started printing the Rubbermaid logo on their Chinese manufactured versions, and have made a killing ever since.  Rubbermaid never had the resources to sue WalMart for the patent infringement before going under.

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Might want to go reread that Wikipedia page.

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Malenko:
I didnt even go to the wikipedia page and I knew what he typed wasnt accurate.
Vigo:
Yeah, you guys beat me to it. The contract part is true, but that is it. Rubbermaid was stupid for signing an exclusivity contract on top of a janky ass pricing contract and paid the price. I hate to use a tired adage, but they were blinded by greed. (That or they had the world's worst legal counsel) I don't know what else would posses a company to decide to to hand the keys of all their sales and pricing entirely over to one retailer.
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