I hate Amazon more than most but this is a heatsink and fan; not rocket science. If they stole the design, I'm sure the lawyers will work that out. Competition is good, cm charging 3x more is not and they deserve to be undercut.
> If they stole the design, I'm sure the lawyers will work that out.
I'd guess that depends on how much someone can afford the massive legal costs to take one the richest companies on the planet to court. It doesn't look like lawyers solved the problem for Peak Design when amazon ripped off their bag design.
Competition is good, selling cheap, lower quality knockoffs of other people's products is not. Companies like Amazon have so much money that they will always be able to sell a knockoff product for less than it cost the creator to research, design, refine, and manufacture the real thing, and then make sure their rip off version it the first thing any user shopping on Amazon sees. Why would a person bother creating something when you know that the moment it gets popular Amazon will just steal your design and undercut you, possibly before you've even had a chance to recover your investment?
autoexec|3 years ago
I'd guess that depends on how much someone can afford the massive legal costs to take one the richest companies on the planet to court. It doesn't look like lawyers solved the problem for Peak Design when amazon ripped off their bag design.
Competition is good, selling cheap, lower quality knockoffs of other people's products is not. Companies like Amazon have so much money that they will always be able to sell a knockoff product for less than it cost the creator to research, design, refine, and manufacture the real thing, and then make sure their rip off version it the first thing any user shopping on Amazon sees. Why would a person bother creating something when you know that the moment it gets popular Amazon will just steal your design and undercut you, possibly before you've even had a chance to recover your investment?