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dizzyfugu

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Faked VBP balls?
« on: September 30, 2007, 06:53:11 PM »
What the hell is THIS? China fakes with VBP, MoRich and Track copy elements?

http://www.123bowl.com/ball.asp?ballid=3318
http://www.123bowl.com/ball.asp?ballid=3319
http://www.123bowl.com/ball.asp?ballid=3320
http://www.123bowl.com/ball.asp?ballid=3321

Anyone know? Look pretty, though.
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Re: Faked VBP balls?
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2007, 06:07:18 AM »
Hmmmm.... interesting.

Wouldn't mind trying them

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Re: Faked VBP balls?
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2007, 06:23:17 AM »

Why, if these are fake would you support some thing that is taking away from a "Good American Company"  Family owned ???


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Hmmmm.... interesting.

Wouldn't mind trying them

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Re: Faked VBP balls?
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2007, 06:41:57 AM »
The first 2 you posted have some crazy colors mixed in them...I love the colors...
Besides that, that is weird that it even has VBP on the ball, yet visionary didnt give permission to put it on there...
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Re: Faked VBP balls?
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2007, 07:43:06 AM »
Wouldn't mind trying those weightblocks in the real VBP covers...
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Re: Faked VBP balls?
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2007, 07:52:21 AM »
did you notice it has a usbc stamp on it too?
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Re: Faked VBP balls?
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2007, 09:58:16 AM »
The only way we can stop this kind of import junk is
DO NOT BUY THE PRODUCT.
We as bowlers here in the USA have other options on
bowling balls that are made here in the USA.
Someday it may come to be that all bowling balls
will be made overseas, but right know we still have
some options on balls made in the USA.

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Re: Faked VBP balls?
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2007, 10:00:47 AM »
Those Chinese are amazing! What will they clone next?
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« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2007, 10:07:49 AM »
mini me!!!!!
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Re: Faked VBP balls?
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2007, 10:24:09 AM »
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Those Chinese are amazing! What will they clone next?


It's flabberghasting brand piracy. There had been some dubious balls of unknown origin with MoRich-like cores inside a year ago, and I can remember that someone posted a Chinese website where VERY blatant copies (I remember a ghastly Bully copy) were offered for export.
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Re: Faked VBP balls?
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2007, 10:29:10 AM »
they do it with golf clubs, why not bowling balls, and to be honest as more and more of our ball manufacturers look to go overseas it will only be a matter of time before everything is copied
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Re: Faked VBP balls?
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2007, 11:24:52 AM »
Yes they make knockoffs, but they don't have the brand name on them....That is BS if its true..
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Re: Faked VBP balls?
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2007, 11:34:25 AM »
oh no, there are ping and calloway knock offs, it is a full time job for both companies to track those folks down, there isnt as much now, but 5 years ago, the market was shot full of knock offs.  It happens in everything my daughter wants a purse, coach brand, I beleive they cost 500+ told me i could get a knock off for under 100, how does my 13 y.o. know about knock offs.  happens everwhere with everything
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Re: Faked VBP balls?
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2007, 01:43:26 PM »
well... as long as they don't try to make fakes of already release brand names it is ok with me so I don't get a fake into my hands I though was something else!

anyway it is a shame and it is hard to fight this as the chinesse e.g. even tolerate this as it is a big income to the country
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Re: Faked VBP balls?
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2007, 06:17:09 PM »
I'm NEVER buying any of those.

How can the USBC, a United States corporation, sanction these blatant copies?

Aren't there trademark or copyright or patent infringements involved?

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