chinese 7x7.....

ISuckAtCubing said:
i dont think there is anything wrong with it
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How can you think there is nothing wrong with stealing someone else's design? If you designed a puzzle and then some company in China started producing it and selling it to thousands of people around the world (without asking you and without giving you a fair share of the profits), I think you'd change your tune.
 
you know.. i have that cheap chinese mefferts 4x4x4 ripoff... perhaps mefferts is selling actual chinese puzzles! haha

sort of off topic, but close enough
 
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daniel0731ex said:
there's the in-box verson now

So weird! It says TYPE B on the packaging


http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=freecomic101&b=8&f=1593791216&p=0

what is funny is that on the box it says "all-rights reserved"




PS: i heard that type D is going to make their own 9x9 now, and it's coming out in May
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I looked at this photo, and you can just make out the Yongjun Toys logo.
I recently bought one of their 5x5's on Ebay, and it had separate instructions on how to re-assemble it. On the bottom of the back page, it has a drawn picture of all their products. Included are the 6x6 and 7x7. It also says "Yongjun cube patents reserved, copyright is belonged"
 
qqwref said:
Someone please show Verdes these pictures... I hope that this factory gets shut down because it really is hurting Verdes, but IF they have discovered some way to make the V7 better, Verdes should definitely know about it.
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Same goes for Rubik's clones, void cube clones etc, expect it seems I am the only one who cares about the Rubik clones , but indeed it hurts Mr Verdes much more since they made a big investment and for Rubik it is more protecting the brand name.
 
rahulkadukar said:
Well is this similar to the Mefferts 7x7x7 and how are they offering something that cheap
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They're both the same thing as far as we can tell - both total rip-offs.

They can offer them so cheap because they have not spent years of research and development, or secured the patents, or built up the market (e.g. trade shows and the V-Cube demonstration events). Perhaps they don't assemble them very well (case in point: my disappointing Meffert's rip-off mf8 megaminx!), or have shoddy quality control, or perhaps they exploit their workforce to squeeze the price down (no way of knowing about that one unless we can track down the factory and the assemblers)

Let your conscience lead the way!
 
AvGalen said:
Spyyder: I don't think that is true anymore. Please provide a source.
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The Chinese government is publicly against copyright/patent infringement but it does nothing to stop it.

Also, I doubt that Verdes could prove enough profit loss because of this for anyone other than us to actually care, especially when you have companies selling bootleg/fake harry potter books, fake ipods(brother got one, looked exactly like a nano even came in a genuine ipod nano box lawl), etc. and no one doing anything about any of that.

Does Verdes even has his products patented in China? If not then they will not get any legal protection.
 
I'm not buying one, but as long as the internal mechanism is different, it's not a knock-off.

Verdes made a 5x5x5, but people aren't bashing him for it. Also, Erno Rubik must have spent a long time making the original Rubik's cube, but now most people here dismiss is product is crappy and buy knockoffs.

And just because it's 7x7x7 doesn't make this product any worse. Bigger cubes have already been thought of before, and although Verdes has the copyright for his mechanism behind a 7x7x7, he has no copyright for the idea of any 7x7x7.

I DO believe that Verdes worked harder and deserves more money for his work, I find it unfair to immediately hate this cube.
 
bamman1108 said:
And just because it's 7x7x7 doesn't make this product any worse. Bigger cubes have already been thought of before, and although Verdes has the copyright for his mechanism behind a 7x7x7, he has no copyright for the idea of any 7x7x7.
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It's exactly the same mechanism as the V-7... the Chinese guys just casted some pieces in two parts to change the number of pieces it had and evade Verdes's patent's specifications. If this was a newly invented 7x7 nobody would have any problem with it; the whole reason people are angry is because it is a direct copy of Verdes's work with no agreement to compensate him for inventing it.
 
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