What does it cost the American company to make the Atlas bipod? billt460 stated "The fact is Atlas brought a lot of this on themselves, by pricing their models beyond the affordability range of the overall market."
I don't know what it costs them to manufacture it. And I don't care. All I care about is what they charge for it. And as I stated in my post, it's far more than I, along with many others, are willing to pay for it. And that's all that matters. If they had priced it more affordably, there wouldn't be such a large market for lesser cost reproductions. If they can't, or else won't, they can live with the results. It's called competition.
....How much do the chinese counterfeiters pay to use the American companies patented design?....
You really need to get your definitions straight before you start shooting off your mouth about something you obviously have proven to know so little about. What I bought is a perfectly
LEGAL unbranded COPY / CLONE. Not a COUNTERFEIT. A copy is a cheaper manufactured reproduction, that is knowingly produced by someone other than the original manufacturer at far lower cost. A counterfeit is deliberately manufactured with the intent to deceive and defraud the purchaser into thinking they are buying the original. When in fact they are not. And is
ILLEGAL.
Second, how do you know it's made in China? I don't. There are no markings of any kind either on the unit itself, or on the box it came in, stating where it was made, or who made it. Third, there are all but countless LEGAL way's around patents. All that it requires is a slight change or modification to the original design, and there is no illegal patent infringement. It's done all the time in the automotive industry.
Lastly, if you don't care to own one, and instead would prefer to own an original Atlas, that's fine. No one is preventing you from spending your money how you so choose. But you have no reason or room to criticize someone else's selection who chooses not to. You are obviously not a lawyer. Seeing as that's the case, and this is your first post on this forum, you really should stop trying to act like one. Because going by the way you are acting, tossing around false illegalities and accusations of "theft" and "crime", not to mention silly, leading questions, smart remarks, and manufacturing assumptions, you appear to be far more of a counterfeit than my bipod.
Since you're new to the forum, but I'm wondering why you joined.
To defend Atlas?
To go after Bill?
To preach?
Because that's what your posts are, and I just don't see the point...
