• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    6 days ago

    This roller coaster ride is basically the story of my life. “Look at this screwball knife in Aliexpress, how did they come up with that?” Then what ensues is a multi-hour dive into the rabbit hole to discover whose design they ripped it off from.

    For instance you can’t buy a HOM Chimera for love nor money nowadays, but the Chinese will sell you one or at least something shaped just like it for $60…

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      6 days ago

      I looked it up just to see and I find just a butterfly knife? What makes the HOM chimera worth enough to make a knock off?

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        6 days ago

        Who the hell knows, other than the fact that the original retailed for $400 and you can’t get one anymore. When there’s demand, someone will step up.