Here's the way I see it. One company spends countless hours and I'm sure a lot of money to develop a hull that people will like and will hold up to the abuse we put it through. That company charges $6000+ for a hull with less than $1500 in materials because they're having to pay for all the man hours and materials they burned through during development. They're probably expecting to sell less than 20 hulls so the mark up has to be pretty high to cover the development costs. Then a year later, some dude makes a direct copy of it in his free time and tries to undercut the original manufacturer by $500-$1000. The second guy has a little bit of time and money in the mold and a small investment in materials and banks 75% of the profit. How is that right? Finger throttles, ride plates, and hoods are all form over function. There is little to no R&D in those parts so I have no complaints about people making small changes there.
I don't know if you guys recall or not but one guy on here tried to copy Kenny Keepers about a year ago and sell them. The guy was overwhelmed by flaming and bashing. Now people want to support a different guy all together for doing the exact same thing on a larger scale. WTF?!
For those that keep saying we're being negative towards new products... This is not a new product and anyone who makes a direct copy of an already popular hull is not an innovator for the sport. He's a copycat jumping on the bandwagon and hoping to use someone else's hard work to make a buck. Imagine how much hulls will cost is the big hull manufacturers start patenting their designs...
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if the guy took a mould off a rickter fair enough.. did he?
has anyone here physically seen this ski? no
its already been shown that there are differences
if there was a copyright on the rickter or any other product, someone only has to change one thing about it to get by the copyright
a rickter/lenzi/rok hull they all look similar so they are all copies of each other?
many manufactures have made sj splashes... i have a wcf hull, its a sj splash as is a xft, wammer etc... i dont see the bash fests for them.. pretty sure they probably all started by taking a mould off of a supejet hull
i dont see 5 pages of bashing on the bob thread... which could be argued as a 300sx splash
there are many a/m parts that could qualify as copies, from ride plate, grates, steering, poles etc etc
im playing devils advocate a little here...
if you dont like it dont buy it.. simple.. seems unless someone on here has all his "buddies" on here bumping it up then it must be a copy cat and should be bashed until its banished
come on.. give this guy a break
personally i welcome people looking to give options to us, most of us have enough brain capacity to make up our own minds
mods.. you should really think about cleaning up this thread with all the post dumping
