He's Gonna Get It !!!

[M Fowler]

Yeah I don't get it my youngest son works for a guy that has a motor sports business.

My son strips everything from snowmobiles, dirt bikes, street bikes, boats, jet-skis anything else they can get. Some my son rebuilds and puts back as whole and sells.

The owner does all the buying and running around, son does the stripping and another guy does the ebay watching.

This guy makes a lot of money ebaying. But what a pain it must be.

Mark

[rdjones]

I missed the ebay item, but from the sound of this thread, it's ok to list clones as long as they are not Trainwreck clones? How are the TW clones different than others?

In a general sense, it's not the cloning per se that's frowned upon, it's the use of someone's commercial trademark.

In the case of fairly rare items such as Trainwreck and Dumble it's a lot easier to chase after trademark violators.
But the guy who builds a Vibroverb or JTM45 and slaps a logo on it to pass off as real is just as offensive to those who value the real thing.

rd

[steviea55]

It is just another version of the basic circuit that we all use until someone puts a logo on it and that's when the trouble starts. After all, the tube amps being built today use the schems that were developed during the 40's and 50's. Seems everybody wants to add some new kind'a light,freak tweak, or slightly alter a value and think they have something unique, and it just ain't so. Yes we all find ourselves surfing E-pit for better or worse and I doubt that will ever change.