Another example of ricers putting "stickers" on Rota Wheels
Stan (Has MG Venom Hood. It ain't prurty, but it's original)
Yeah, you can have a fake rolex that looks and works as good as the real thing. but someone still STOLE the intellectual property hence why it is illegal. I personally think Rota makes a decent, durable rim. that is not my problem with them.
The letter of law probably allows everything up to branding it as the original. Doesn't mean it is right.
And any of you bitching about Rota knocking off someone else's design better not have any Seibon parts, shineauto bodykits, VIS, topspeed parts, strup headers, no name plenum spacers, fake HKS exhausts, etc etc etc before you cast stones at Rota.
Rickdogg brings up a great point when someone defended the Rota distributor as 'losing business'... you cannot guess at how many sales are funneled from shops and brands that created the property they coopted. THAT is the truest loss of business you need to defend first. Sure, Rota probably sells alot to people who would never dream of paying 3k for a set of rims, but like I said, you cannot quantify the customers who decided to save their money by buying the knock off. Even rich people rock knock off Prada bags sometimes. Since you cannot know the stats, you have to assume the sales loss is great and you cannot condone Rota's business practices.
Unless of course they are licensing the designs from Volk or whoever (this is honestly possible). if they bought the mold rights from them, then more power to them. I doubt Volk or any other name brand manufacturer will ever fess up though as their dealers would be pretty pissed off if that came out.
The letter of law probably allows everything up to branding it as the original. Doesn't mean it is right.
And any of you bitching about Rota knocking off someone else's design better not have any Seibon parts, shineauto bodykits, VIS, topspeed parts, strup headers, no name plenum spacers, fake HKS exhausts, etc etc etc before you cast stones at Rota.
Rickdogg brings up a great point when someone defended the Rota distributor as 'losing business'... you cannot guess at how many sales are funneled from shops and brands that created the property they coopted. THAT is the truest loss of business you need to defend first. Sure, Rota probably sells alot to people who would never dream of paying 3k for a set of rims, but like I said, you cannot quantify the customers who decided to save their money by buying the knock off. Even rich people rock knock off Prada bags sometimes. Since you cannot know the stats, you have to assume the sales loss is great and you cannot condone Rota's business practices.
Unless of course they are licensing the designs from Volk or whoever (this is honestly possible). if they bought the mold rights from them, then more power to them. I doubt Volk or any other name brand manufacturer will ever fess up though as their dealers would be pretty pissed off if that came out.
Think about this... Take a look around you, you can spend the whole day (or however long you need), find something around you that IS NOT copied by another company... Let me test this: Phone, Pencil, Pen, Office door, computer, monitor, watch, mouse, paper.... Wait, no those are all shared by multiple manufacturers... Hmm, to the contrary, I think what should be suprising to you is that more companies aren't doing the same thing in the wheel market, we are nowhere near saturation...
