Copy Cats!!!

Posted on 29. Dec, 2008 by iankiwi in Ian's Blog, X-Centre News

Lat­est News i have just received is Some Piece of Human Excre­ment has yet again Copied Our Bungy Jump, this time at Krabi in the South of Thai­land!!! Peo­ple have Told Me Imi­ta­tion is the High­est Form of Flat­tery as You must be the Best if Every­one wants to Copy You??? I don’t mind any­one doing Busi­ness But it Really Gets Up My Nose when the Lowlifes Copy exactly our Busi­ness includ­ing Logos!!! This has hap­pened Numer­ous Times here is a Quick Rundown:

1, Patong Beach has 1 Bungy where a Thai Gov­ern­ment Offi­cial copied Our Tower Plans He Stole from the Gov­ern­ment Office where He worked! We had sub­mit­ted them there for our License. I took them to Court and Won yet No one would enforce it so they are still open today!!! No License, Per­mis­sion, No Com­pany, No Pay­ing Taxes etc??? Our Ex Staff helped them set it up with what knowl­edge they had???

2, Koh Samui has 1 Bungy which was orig­i­nally owned By Us. The Tower was designed for Cat­a­pult but they had us ille­gally removed from the Com­pany Papers, shifted the Tower and con­verted it to a Jump Tower, Copied Our Logo. Thai’s and Farang Crooks involved. Again Our Ex Staff helped set it up???

3, Pat­taya has 1 Bungy which made a direct effort to Copy Our Logo and Mar­ket­ing as we had a Bungy there??? Again the same Guy from Koh Samui was involved a Lowlife Scammer!!!

4, Now Krabi has 1 Bungy which again from what i have heard is owned By a Bunch of  Low-Life Scam­mers and again Our Staff from Phuket are involved!!!

5, Here in Chi­ang Mai 1 Year after we opened Our X-Centre some Low-Life Crook Thai Scam­mer opened a Busi­ness just around the Cor­ner from Us!!! This Guy is Not Short of Bucks but is def­i­nitely Short on Brains!!! He called it Sport-X and tried to Copy our stuff but lucky for us He brought real Crap ATV’s and Bug­gies then lets His Idiot Son Run it which has turned out to be a Disaster!!!

6, Also here in Chi­ang Mai is another Com­pany ” Flight of the Gib­bons” This is a Copy of the Orig­i­nal in Laos “The Gib­bon Expe­ri­ence” !!! Same Story Ex Staff, Copy every­thing etc. The only Dif­fer­ence is these Guys Made a Con­certed Effort to Copy Our Mar­ket­ing!!! They even went as Far as to Go to some of the Places we adver­tise and Offer Much More for Our exact Spot!!! An Exam­ple is we had a Dis­play at the Bag­gage Con­veyor at Chi­ang Mai Air­port, These Bot­tom Dwelling Scum Suck­ers Paid 3 Times More to Get Our Spot!!! Now if that is not mak­ing a direct attack on some­ones Busi­ness I don’t Know what is??? By all accounts they are doing very well but they are Pay­ing a Huge Com­mis­sion to Counter Tours etc and I am sure alot of Back-Handers as they have Built on a National Park???

What is the Com­mon Fac­tor in all these Examples??? Just about all these Com­pa­nies are Run By Cor­rupt Low-Lifes!!! Nearly All are from Ex-Staff steal­ing the Par­ent Com­pa­nies Iden­tity!!! Nearly All are Ille­gal, Don’t Pay Tax or have a Com­pany etc etc. The Best Part is All of them Are No Where Near As Good As Us!!! Oh the Joys of doing Busi­ness in Asia!!!

I wish all of them the Best, NOT!!! “What goes around comes around” and I can’t Wait for these Shit Heads to get their Just Deserves!!!

Have a Great Day.

Cheers Ian.

4 Responses to “Copy Cats!!!”

  1. Ben Waugh

    29. Dec, 2008

    Great post. I will read your posts fre­quently. Added you to the RSS reader.

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  2. Mike Harmon

    29. Dec, 2008

    A friend of mine just emailed me one of your arti­cles from a while back. I read that one a few more. Really enjoy your blog. Thanks

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  3. Patong Phuket

    28. Jun, 2009

    Thats great. I enjoyed your post and like your web­site. I have added to my bookmarks.

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  4. kettle

    09. Feb, 2010

    I can under­stand the part about where they stole things from your directly… But sim­ply set­ting up com­pe­ti­tion like the sport-X guy.. why does that bother you? I guess hav­ing a monop­oly is one of the things that makes you smile in the Land of Smiles?

    Pay­ing out more for the same mar­ket­ing? Wel­come to mar­ket­ing 101. Surely you didn’t think you would have a monop­oly for­ever did you?

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