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Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: ElGwako on May 11, 2006, 04:46:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on May 11, 2006, 01:31:51 pm ---  (If we are correctly assuming this is based on a Jakks and not a MAME). 

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It's illegal to use parts from someone elses product, that is the board designed by JAKKS(or whoever), use it to build a new product and sell it off for profit. It's like me taking a 2 liter of coke, pouring it into small bottles and selling it as ElGwako-Cola. If CCE wanted to they could easily put a stop to it but i'm only one guy with 2liters of their product. This guy is playing the "I don't know anything about these" card and not actually admitting to what it is. Jakks could actually come down on him, but it's only one.

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Actually, I'm not sure what you are suggesting is illegal, as long as there is no fraud involved.

IANAL, though.

For example, let's say I want to sell my own lawnmowers.  I build the base deck and buy the wheels myself, but I buy the motor from Briggs&Stratton and sell it as a Tiger-Heli mower with 4HP B&S motor.  I am using B&S product to build a new product and selling it off for profit.  Perfectly legal, afaik.  Now let's says B&S doesn't want to sell directly to me for less than $150 per motor, but I can get a Murray mower at Home Depot for $119.  I think I can take the B&S motor off the Murray and put it on my deck and sell it again.  (Same deal of using their product for profit, but still legal).

Now if I cover over the B&S decal with a 9.5 HP Tiger-Heli Motors Inc. decal . . .

Or am I way off-base here?

horseboy:

 :dizzy: :o :o

Holy crap. This friggin thing is up to $245 + $55 shipping with 2 hours left. I hope this guy gets stiffed on by the buyer.

horseboy:

 :banghead:  $300 friggin bucks + $55 shipping. Totally F'n insane.

ElGwako:


--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on May 13, 2006, 11:08:23 am ---Or am I way off-base here?

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hmmmm?  i am not by any means a law expert NOR do i play one on TV. You are right, i don't think that is illegal the way you put it at all so long as the Briggs and Stratton label shows. However....let's break it down this way and see because this is more similar to what he did.
you build everything(deck, wheels, handle) except the motor. You buy a B&S but don't like the compression so you break it all down to the bare block and machine yourself ALL new parts but use the same block. Put it all together and slap a Tiger-Heli label on it.
It's no longer a briggs and stratton motor but it is their engineered block.

NOTE: it's illegal yes...however is anyone going to call a lawyer for one or two....hell no. If you start pumping out 100's and making some $$ on it....

ElGwako:

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Isn't that what they do at bars? B a s t a r d s! I want a refund! :laugh2:

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  ???   that's the other way around. They sell their own product but call it coke...that's just false advertising.
a bar i worked at did that with quite a few products. The coke was actually Al's cola and I still haven't found out what they were funneling into the sambuca bottle one day when i walked in.

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