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]]> Comment on Damn Heels Looks Like a Damn Knockoff by RWelch http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2010/04/29/damn-heels-looks-like-a-damn-knockoff/comment-page-1/#comment-25 RWelch Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:29:08 +0000 http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/?p=1997#comment-25 Okay, so you say Rollasoles were finally hitting their stride in summer 2009, and yet Haley "ripped off" the idea and launched Damn Heels in December of that same year? Wow. That's pretty quick. I mean, businesses take a while to get off the ground. Pretty impressive that she could rip it off that quickly. Especially considering the walk home that inspired the idea for Haley happened in 2007...it's almost as if the idea had been brewing for a lot longer than just a few months! Hmmm...(note the sarcasm) Also: do you understand the way business works? Let's just say that Haley did "steal" the idea (which I doubt she did, by the way, seeing as she got the idea for the product a full year before Rollasoles was even a thought). When a company sees a product that they think they can improve on, THEY DO IT. That's the way to make money. Do you also think that Windows ripped off Mac (I mean, Mac launched in January 1984, Windows in November 1985!)? That's not such a big deal, though, is it? Because the products are in competition with each other. There are differences between the two, and they'll constantly be one-upping each other and appealing to different markets. That's how it works. There a million similar products out there, and they're all constantly improving on products that already exist to make money. Besides that, ideas CAN co-exist. I go back to Windows and Mac. They're both good operating systems, both appealing to different markets. Just because they came out within a similar time frame, does that mean one MUST HAVE stolen from another? Is it so hard to believe that two people out of the 6 billion people in the world had a similar train of thought? Sorry, but this is just bad, biased journalism. You've presented a coincidence in an attempt to, what, sully this young entrepreneur's success? Appear oh so clever? I don't mean to sound rude, but I can't stand it when people try to take away the originality and hard work behind other people's work. It's rude and unnecessary. (Especially in this case, since I'm of the firm belief that Damn Heels are actually an improvement on Rollasoles on several levels, including storability and reusablility.) Next time, after you do your homework, use your logic, too. Okay, so you say Rollasoles were finally hitting their stride in summer 2009, and yet Haley “ripped off” the idea and launched Damn Heels in December of that same year?
Wow. That’s pretty quick.
I mean, businesses take a while to get off the ground. Pretty impressive that she could rip it off that quickly. Especially considering the walk home that inspired the idea for Haley happened in 2007…it’s almost as if the idea had been brewing for a lot longer than just a few months! Hmmm…(note the sarcasm)
Also: do you understand the way business works? Let’s just say that Haley did “steal” the idea (which I doubt she did, by the way, seeing as she got the idea for the product a full year before Rollasoles was even a thought). When a company sees a product that they think they can improve on, THEY DO IT. That’s the way to make money. Do you also think that Windows ripped off Mac (I mean, Mac launched in January 1984, Windows in November 1985!)? That’s not such a big deal, though, is it? Because the products are in competition with each other. There are differences between the two, and they’ll constantly be one-upping each other and appealing to different markets. That’s how it works. There a million similar products out there, and they’re all constantly improving on products that already exist to make money.
Besides that, ideas CAN co-exist. I go back to Windows and Mac. They’re both good operating systems, both appealing to different markets. Just because they came out within a similar time frame, does that mean one MUST HAVE stolen from another? Is it so hard to believe that two people out of the 6 billion people in the world had a similar train of thought?
Sorry, but this is just bad, biased journalism. You’ve presented a coincidence in an attempt to, what, sully this young entrepreneur’s success? Appear oh so clever? I don’t mean to sound rude, but I can’t stand it when people try to take away the originality and hard work behind other people’s work. It’s rude and unnecessary. (Especially in this case, since I’m of the firm belief that Damn Heels are actually an improvement on Rollasoles on several levels, including storability and reusablility.)
Next time, after you do your homework, use your logic, too.

]]> Comment on Damn Heels Looks Like a Damn Knockoff by Alexandra Highcrest http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2010/04/29/damn-heels-looks-like-a-damn-knockoff/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Alexandra Highcrest Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:44:15 +0000 http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/?p=1997#comment-24 These products did not appear simultaneously in different markets, the American knock-offs appeared in the summer of 2009, after Horan’s original surfaced and succeeded. Hailey Coleman launched her company in December 2009. There is no fabrication in this story; the information is available to anyone who chooses to look. All I've done is sewn the threads together and came to a logical conclusion. Any product can be knocked off, luxe or not. From the Oxford, “knock-off: a copy or imitation made especially for commercial gain.” The key words in the definition are “for commercial gain,” the definition makes no specific reference to luxury goods. These products did not appear simultaneously in different markets, the American knock-offs appeared in the summer of 2009, after Horan’s original surfaced and succeeded. Hailey Coleman launched her company in December 2009.

There is no fabrication in this story; the information is available to anyone who chooses to look. All I’ve done is sewn the threads together and came to a logical conclusion.

Any product can be knocked off, luxe or not. From the Oxford, “knock-off: a copy or imitation made especially for commercial gain.” The key words in the definition are “for commercial gain,” the definition makes no specific reference to luxury goods.

]]> Comment on Damn Heels Looks Like a Damn Knockoff by monster http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/2010/04/29/damn-heels-looks-like-a-damn-knockoff/comment-page-1/#comment-23 monster Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:00:37 +0000 http://alexandrahighcrest.com/blog/?p=1997#comment-23 Is it not possible that two like-minded individuals could conceive of this brilliant idea, unknowingly and irrespective of one another? Innovation and response to market demand can, and should, occur in tandem; multiple products arriving simultaneously in different markets serves only as evidence that these products are tremendously valuable, and that young innovators are thinking alike and responding to current consumer desires. This article is poor, fabricated journalism, founded on negative and fallacious assumptions, and serves only to slander and denigrate the work of this young Canadian entrepreneur by implying that she has misappropriated the idea as opposed to conceptualizing of the product herself. Rather disappointing, indeed. Even the interpretation of “knock-off” stated in this article is utterly erroneous, for a “knock-off” is, by definition, a copy of imitation of an expensive or luxury good. I do believe this renders even the title nonsensical. Please, do your homework next time, and give us something more than this fragment of lazy, misguided and damaging journalism. Is it not possible that two like-minded individuals could conceive of this brilliant idea, unknowingly and irrespective of one another? Innovation and response to market demand can, and should, occur in tandem; multiple products arriving simultaneously in different markets serves only as evidence that these products are tremendously valuable, and that young innovators are thinking alike and responding to current consumer desires. This article is poor, fabricated journalism, founded on negative and fallacious assumptions, and serves only to slander and denigrate the work of this young Canadian entrepreneur by implying that she has misappropriated the idea as opposed to conceptualizing of the product herself. Rather disappointing, indeed. Even the interpretation of “knock-off” stated in this article is utterly erroneous, for a “knock-off” is, by definition, a copy of imitation of an expensive or luxury good. I do believe this renders even the title nonsensical. Please, do your homework next time, and give us something more than this fragment of lazy, misguided and damaging journalism.

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