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Originally Posted by Rampage
To me this is like the kid that goes to the mall and pays $150 for a pair of Nike and then is pissed because a poor kid went to Walmart and bought an almost identical pair of shoes for $40.
If you want to spend lots of $$$ for a "name" brand then go for it. I will investigate the product specifications and then buy the lowest cost product that fulfills my needs every time. Much of what you are paying for is the advertising dollars to hype the product anyway, not the development cost.
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The funny thing is like the shoe comparison, most discerning individuals can tell the difference between the real deal and a fake. In fact, most of the differences in knockoff shoes are quite obvious and kids are much more harsh about blatantly calling out one another on copycat shoes lol. Honestly there are plenty of good looking wheels that aren't knock offs of another wheel. Yeah there may only be so many ways to make a wheel look different or have so many different ways for a certain amount of spokes to come out but some of this is just blatant copying. 5Zigen, Buddy Club, Enkei, Team Dynamics, and several others fit in to the easily affordable category and most of them have been producing wheels for quite some time. If a company is selling wheels for less than half of what a reputable company is selling for I'd definitely think that they are cutting corners somewhere. I can't stand copying because it isn't innovative, they aren't bringing anything new to the community. All they are doing is taking someone elses designs/ideas and cutting the cost to make a profit. They don't help the community in that regard, and it's sad because these manufacturers actually have the ability to create something of their own but they are unwilling to do so.