Kitted Posted April 13, 2015 Share Good day Hubbers, We would just like to let you know that we are currently fighting a legal battle against the people that assisted us in manufacturing our chainrings. They have gone behind our back and started selling our chainrings with their name on it, it is the exact same design, tooth profile, engraving, anodising ect. We had no beef with them up until last week when they decided to up our manufacturing costs by more than double, we now understand why!!! ACC Billet Engineering (Pro Billet) decided to take it upon themselves to use our designs that we have paid for and worked on for the past year and go ahead and make some for themselves. We discovered this on the weekend when we walked into one of our clients shops and saw this "NEW" locally manufactured chainring on a bike. After closer inspection we could notice that this was our chainring, we spoke to the shop owner and he gave us the invoice he was presented with and we saw all the details of the company that we are using. We are not sure how many stores they have approached and sold "their" chainrings to but if you do get approached by "ANGIE" please do not buy anything from her/them. We have put time and money into our business and the fact that they do not have any business ethics and take other company property for them selves means we will not take this sitting down. Please guys if you know of anyone else who has one of these chainrings, please let us know ASAP> I have attached some photos of the chainring we found and one of ours so you can see the resemblance. ThanksThe KITTED Team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisan Posted April 13, 2015 Share Wow. I hope this gets sorted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Wheel Base Posted April 13, 2015 Share NOT COOL!!!!! Hope you guys win this one. Smurfy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathrix Posted April 13, 2015 Share We live among many skelms, difficult to trust anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gen Posted April 13, 2015 Share Shees... hope you sort it out .. bunch of skelms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Posted April 13, 2015 Share Hope you get this sorted and find a cheaper manufacturer! Best wishes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gummibear Posted April 13, 2015 Share How do skelms sleep at night? Hope you guys get this sorted. Edited April 13, 2015 by gummibear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surv0MTB Posted April 13, 2015 Share Whats the legal take on this? Surely one signs a document of sorts which prevents the manufacturer from selling it themselves? Not sure what the usual approach is but that would be my first concern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.T.G Posted April 13, 2015 Share Balls!!! bunches of boxes!!That's just so off pi$$ing!Hope you guys get it sorted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davem Posted April 13, 2015 Share The irony is that you will be able shut them down at great cost to yourself, but you will also lose your manufacturer for your own product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Bob Posted April 13, 2015 Share That is just a fugly attitude... I hope you wrapped them up nicely with your manufacturing contract and can shut that down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinsfish Posted April 13, 2015 Share hope you come right, im a big supporter of kitted products and will kill me if they dissapear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odinson Posted April 13, 2015 Share You need to thoroughly scrutnise the manufacturing (and other) agreements between yourselves and ACC Billet Engineering. Was the design of the chainring patented? What measure were taken to secure your intellectual property? T-Bob, Loose cog, Captain Fastbastard Mayhem and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotSoBigBen Posted April 13, 2015 Share Just wondering besides the colours, visual appearance, logos etc. is there actually any real technical difference between different narrow/wide chainrings? I mean narrow wide surely can't have much to 'develop' on ... there's no shifting or anything .... Having said that it is a real dick move by the manufacturer but unless there is some legal contract in place it could be untidy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rock Posted April 13, 2015 Share the basic design might be free to all, otherwise Sram would be knockcing on everyone's door, although they got the idea from someone else right? But if they are literally taking 'your product' off the production line and packing one box for you and then another box for them and trying to undercut you, that's a poor move. NotSoBigBen and Stretch 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rock Posted April 13, 2015 Share don't worry, I think big "S" and their legal team might just take them out.... Edited April 13, 2015 by rock Capricorn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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