Umm, how is that any different to what happens with every other product? Automobiles are copied, caravans are copied, whitegoods are copied, phones are copied, everything is copied, if not by China, then by India.
From what I saw, that guy didn’t invent anything. He just packaged a bunch of stuff together in a fancy box which his mate designed and wrote a basic user guide that anybody could find on the internet. Did he have a patent on his product? Did he have copyright on his manual/instruction book? If he didn’t then he doesn’t have the right to whinge. It is not like he spent money on research and development of a unique product.
So how many Aussies does the whinger employ? How many bricks and mortar stores does this whinger lease or own? How much tax does this whinger pay to support the Australian economy?
KB
You might think that someone blatantly copying something a supplier has developed to then undercut them is OK just because he didn't copyright it, Jaycar might be legally OK, but ethically is a different question and will vary from person to person.
I am not against using them if you value thier customer service, convince of being able to grab something straight away as opposed to waiting for it in the mail, or because they employ local staff (although squeeze out local suppliers). But like I said I wouldn't show loyalty to an Australian company for being Australian when they don't do the same for their suppliers.
And how is it different? give me one example of a seller who has so blatantly copied something that a supplier has been supplying to cut them out, and you can reduce everything if you want too a sum of it's parts.
If there was no value in what he had developed, then why did Jaycar copy it?
