Pro-Jump PowerBocking Jumping Stilts Forum - Community for Power bocking / Pro Jumping!
Members Lounge => Non Bocking Chat => Topic started by: Rocketbat on November 03, 2007, 03:15:43 AM
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this one isnt for the faint harted! >:( :'( :o
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Didnt work for me, I think this is what you were trying to do:
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And now I have seen it! Oh noooooooo! :(
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why why why why why
why would you ever do that
sad people lol
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thanks urban, but i wish i hadnt clicked play again! >:(
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instead of crushing them they could of gave them away to people
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ok...
There is actually a very good reason why this has happened :(
The actual design of the jumping stilts is covered by a Patent in most countries, this means that they can only be sold LEGALLY by people if they pay the inventor a fee for each jumping stilt they sell. Which is totally reasonable if you have designed something cool and others are going to make a profit selling it - then surely the inventor should also be able to benefit from that too?
The stilts you see being destroyed were ILLEGAL, therefore customs seized them and destroyed them so that it would mean that the seller was not making unfair profit and secondly it acts as a warning to other illegal sellers.
Pro-Jump stilts are legal and patent protected, as Pro-Jump pay a fee to the original inventor and are therefore LEGAL.
In fairness, although it's a shame that the stilts were destroyed I think it was the right thing to do in order to protect sellers like Pro-Jump and others who actually pay the Patent Fee and also to Alexander Bock who invented such a great gadget!
The other alternative would have been to give them away to charities, however it's a hard one as if the brand is unknown then who would be able to vouch for the quality?
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oh thanks, i see now, but still, it should be keped from the eyes of innocent bockers! :o
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Alexander Boeck i think it is right??