Some have blamed this phenomenon on the “market place” Well, in this case the “market place” is “all of us” In my opinion this is a very dangerous idea. When a person commits a criminal act and we blame it on society what we are saying is that we are all at fault. But when we say everyone is at fault, what we are really saying is that Nobody is at fault.
If everybody owns everything (Communism) then nobody owns anything.
Let’s put the blame on who really is at fault here. Lattice Bright.
Lattice Bright is a company created to cash in on Cree’s success, by copying their products with cheaper, lower quality & inferior copies and fakes of a successful companies products, and with the lack of copyright laws and enforcement in China there is nobody to stop them. Added that the manufacturers of the utlra-budget flashlight industry is taking advantage of it themselves by using the inferior lower-cost LB fakes in their products and calling them “Cree” brand, while blatantly committing sales fraud. Who is going to stop them? nobody as long as they stay in China, and out goverments will still allow ship-loads of fakes, copies, and fraudulent products to flow over the borders.
It is our duty to make sure as many people we can is aware of what they could be buying now, especially here.
I don’t think anyone disagrees with you that counterfeiting is still counterfeiting and that it’s completely wrong. I completely agree with you that a company like Lattice Bright purposefully making their LEDs to look like CREEs and then having them placed in Cree labeled flashlights is terrible. I just think that with the demand from the consumers for lower price points with similar quality, one can’t be surprised that someone would see that demand and try to meet it to gain a profit, with or without integrity. But yes, it’s still wrong.
re: “…Lattice Bright purposefully making their LEDs to look like CREEs and then having them placed in Cree labeled flashlights is terrible…”
You make it sound as if LatticeBright funded those manufacturers and “having them placed in Cree Labeled flashlight.” I doubt that is the case. I am entirely confident that if a cheaper imitation came about, these manufacturer wouldn’t waste a minute switching away from LatticeBright and still sell their “Cree” labeled lights.
I think the blame LatticeBright line of thinking is way off mark. But we are all entitled to our opinions.
I ordered a Titanium Gray colored version on ebay for $ 4.54 USD that they lists to have a cree XP-E, (but i’m sure it will come with a LB clone.) i bought it to do a mod with it anyways so the LB led will be trashed regardless. Will know more once it arrives.