stevetexas said:nice products, but much of it is at the same or higher price than can be found elsewhere.
pseudonomen137 said:Not sure if you'd want to turn the pot unless you're willing to lose one of your Spyders for good.
Justin said:Pseudo, you are correct that this incarnation of Thinklasers is not a new business, these are the same people who showed up about this time last year, and while it may not be PC for me to reiterate the details here perhaps you can share the story as I know you have been in this community for a while and are well-respected.
Laserglow also had some interaction with Thinklasers when they first appeared a year ago. Shortly after coming on to the scene as a Wicked/CNI reseller, Thinklasers started using the domain "www.thelaserglow.com" and answering the phone as "Laserglow". If you search for cached copies of "www.thelaserglow.com" on Wayback machine or something similar you can still find copies of their site which was almost an exact cut-and-paste of our site at the time. The cached copy of their page on Wayback shows their advertisment for the "Hercules II" ("Hercules" is our exclusive product and always has been. There is no Hercules II.) and if you do a Google search for "thelaserglow" you can see that it still references to thinklasers. This is a serious violation of our trademark and when we threatened legal action only the title of the webpage was changed to read "thinklasers", even though the content was still a clone of our page. A little while after this they closed up shop and seemed to disappear, and hopefully Pseudo or another "senior" member of this forum will remember the rest of the story.
It is not my intention for this to become a "The Truth About Thinklasers" thread but something needed to be said. I think that in my time representing Laserglow on this forum I have demonstrated that it is not our way to disparage or vilify our competitors, because competition is good for any industry. Laserglow, Nova, Optotronics, Lucent, DL and a lot of other companies are represented here by their various agents and we have all managed to get along amicably and even learn something from one another. There are a LOT of laser companies out there who have managed to competitively co-exist (while carrying much of the same product) without stepping on each other's legal trademarks or using questionable business tactics to confuse and mislead the customer into believing that they are doing business with somebody they are not. This, to me, represents a very concerning business ethic and people should be made aware of WHO they are doing business with.
If anybody would like clarification of anything that I have said here, you can always reach me via email, phone or PM. Thanks for taking the time to read this lengthy post!