ORIGINAL: Boomerang1



The process goes something like this. Someone like RC MAN will design one because he has a bad back, an American company will copy & refine the design & market it, another American company will sell a purple one at 10 times the price, a Japanese company will make a cheaper one than is better finished & folds more compactly then the Chinese will copy (badly) the Japanese version & sell it for less than we can buy the materials to make one because their government will subsidise the materials.

We will then argue about it on an RCU thread for weeks, the purple stand guys will tell us how they were happy to pay heaps more because Bob's a great guy & the people who bought a Chinese stand will justify their purchase because of the price despite having broken 5 models when the stand collapses & having to make modifications to get it to hang together.