tocotun1

If it had happened to me I would be really mad, but it hasn't happened to me, so I can talk about how I feel about this in an unbiased way.

And I feel like this: I'm happy to see that a product that has no actual value (a retractile stick) is produced at a very cheap price. If only the "inventor of the retractile stick" had the rights to produce it, he'd do it at a very inflated price. Now he can't, and everybody (except him) wins.

(All of this assuming he would be granted a patent on a retractile stick, which I very much doubt)

Yes, that will for sure stop the Chinese knock-offs... lol

I just fail to see where the news here are. It's obvious to me that not even a patent would have prevented this. So what's the news? That they copied it while it was still in the crowdfunding phase?

Did he actually think this idea would make him rich? Was he that naive? I mean it's a damn retractile stick, there's no actual value to it, of course it would be copied to oblivion...