piefed.zeromedia.vipSoulja Boy is selling video game consoles again, and he's already being accused of ripping off an existing handheld: "He does not have permission to rebrand our products and sell them as his own"
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NateIf I had a nickel every time Soulja Boy ripped off & started selling game consoles, I’d have TWO nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice
I played craps with Soulja boy once in Tahoe. Dude kept throwing $100 on the horn bet or the high low (can’t remember which, but both pretty bad odds) he hit like 3 of them. Took a selfie with him. It was one of the most random experiences of my life. It is only because of that that I knew he launched a failed videogame console because a handful of people reacted to my story about playing craps with him asking if he tried to sell me a console. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
I mean, how often do you see the same damn item from China with a different logo? I bought a cheap cylinder projector for my daughter and I swear the same damn thing came up under 20 different names. I ended up just getting the one with the upgraded speaker.
DaGeek247China has a huge counterfeit industry, and amazon is complicit in helping them out with it. https://daxueconsulting.com/counterfeit-products-in-china/ https://www.marketingscoop.com/consumer/amazon-fake-products-policy/
Basically, anyone wanting to make anything has two options for manufacturing; in house, and in china. In house is way more expensive, and much less likely to result in profits. In china is incredibly easy and much cheaper, but as soon as you ask for them to pause making your product, they turn around and rebrand it and sell it for much cheaper everywhere they can (Temu, amazon, etc).
Another part is that a lot of manufacturing companies don’t speak English, so there is a whole industry of people who know Chinese manufacturers who will sell their translation and industry contact services. Super helpful when you have a good relationship with them, but the instant that turns even slightly sour, you discover the major downside of having a middleman between you and your product tooling: you have absolutely no power to stop anyone in china from using your tooling to make cheap knockoffs of your product, legal or otherwise.
UlrichChina does not believe in intellectual property. If you manufacture your shit there (which everyone does) it’s guaranteed to be ripped off and sold, minus your R&D costs. Look on AliExpress and you can find counterfeit…everything. Literally the same item sold for 90% less.
But you’re also rolling the dice because honestly you never know what you’re getting when you order shit there. Listings are full of fraudulent or just ignorant specs. Or they may just take your money and never send you anything at all.
halcyoncmdrIt’s not even necessarily counterfeit, like a fake product made to look like the original, but they’ll run the same exact factory overtime to produce extra product beyond the contracted number, and that will be sold on the grey market. Or they’ll take the QC failures, fix them enough for a B-grade product and sell that.
But also the ODM industry is massive too in China - manufacturers who design and make products, but don’t sell directly, rather they contract it out to an “empty brand” (i.e. a company that’s brand only, no real assets or manufacturing capacity), stamp the brand logo on the product and sell it to them en masse.
This is usually why you’d see the exact same cheap thing under many brands.
Counterfeiting is also a thing but those companies usually have good(ish) engineering, and aim to properly replicate expensive products, such as Apple AirPods (the AirReps community is pretty big, and you can buy AirPods Pro 2 clones that are 90-95% of the official one, for around £40-50).
I’m pretty sure most of the stuff on Amazon is from white-label manufactures, not counterfeit.
The difference between a white label (drop shipped) product and a counterfeit made at the same factory on a different work shift is impossible to discern.
You literally can’t know if what you’re buying is original or not anymore.
White label isn’t the same as drop shipped. Sometimes white label products are drop shipped, but not always. And not everything that’s drop shipped is white label.
You literally can’t know if what you’re buying is original or not anymore.
You literally can. Lots of white label products either aren’t covered by a patent/copyright, or were designed/licensed by a Chinese company. Chinese companies do design their own products.
It’s very much a thing. The smaller the company you’re purchasing from, the more likely you’ll find a counterfeit product of theirs available for cheaper. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/06/how-us-small-businesses-are-fighting-counterfeiting-in-china.html
I get the white-label / drop shipping distinction. It’s why I mentioned them both. I also get that chinese manufacturers can make new stuff too. It’s why I didn’t say shit like “china never innovates or makes new products, they only steal”.
lichtmetzgerThis guy just never stops. He’ll be selling low-quality game consoles in 2050 if it continues like this. :D
He’s not even rebranding them…
He just charges more than orders one and passes on the shipping info.
Like, he could have at least bought some up front and threw a sticker on there
while its hilarious that he is trying this again, that website not only popped a text box that opened my keyboard automatically and then did another pop up after that.
*gross*. I’m getting sick of it.
Apologies, I don’t get any of this with Firefox for Android + UBO. It’s just a regular site.
maybe its that voyager is opening the link in its own browser? perhaps I need to tinker with settings.
thank you <3
I am using the Piefed mobile web view (Voyager also sends me to Firefox for Android).
I don’t have any exotic lists in UBO. Just the major ones for English and some regional ones for languages that I speak.
what a weird business for a pop star to get into. kinda sounds like a buddy of his went to him with a fire business plan and let him run with it.
He was bred for war, but maybe he just likes to play retro games.
I mean, drop shipping does feel like it could be easily profitable for someone with clout and a following to peddle his upcharged wares to.
At least he’s doing better than last time when he was immediately shut down because the product was illegal (included roms), or when he bought an atari nft that he thought meant he owned atari. I really want to know how much he paid for that nft that he thought he owned the entire company
If you look at the picture from Soulja Boy’s site, it’s clearly just the Retroid image run through an AI Image-to-image filter to make sure it’s not exactly the same. The buttons have random symbols on them, some of them seem to bend, the D-pad is misshapen and from a distance, the whole thing just looks like a slightly less detailed copy of the original Retroid image.
Also, the price is back up to $436.
The biggest crime is that he’s calling them the SouljaGame and not the SouljaBoy
Soulja Boy I tell em, I got the new scam called the Soulja Boy (Oof!)