Taiwan Paintguns, some look Strangely Familiar...

[AGD]

AO,

Check out this website. Look at the last marker in the Warloard series. I wonder what Budd would think.

AGD

http://www.paintguns.com.tw/english/inside/a1.asp

[nippinout]

Tinker's Guild had a thread about this.

Strange things abrewing. They have an agreement where they can't distribute the cocker clone to the US, but Canada's ok.

Check out the thread.

http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/message?forumid=9013&messageid=1045581015

[zads27]

LOL!

Oh man, that is hillarious.

Those damn Taiwanese/Chinese = Bootlegged dvd movies, bootlegged clothing ('Gues Jeans' -not a typo- anyone?), never thought it would reach bootlegged paintball markers.


[btw, i'm taiwanese myself and i absolutely love the country, but this stuff just cracks me up.]

[Bad Dave]

[ogre55]

The Warlord is a blatant copy of the 'Cocker, just as the Attila is a copy of the PMI Pirahana, which is itself a Spyder clone.

But how is this different from the dozens of US manufacturers who make 'Cockers without any stock WGP parts? I don't think WGP license those designs, as they not have a patent to do so, at least that is what I gathered from an article on Bud Orr run that was run in Facefull a few months back.

Ogre

[VCK]

The Shogun looks a lot like WGP new Ranger, and the Anubis is of course a cocker clone.

The first of the Flash series is interesting though a 12 shot pump mp5.

Oh yeah and check out the listed velocity on the Zeus 600 fps :)

[shartley]

[Wc Keep]

you gotta admit thats one impressive site.

[shartley]

Originally posted by Wc Keep
you gotta admit thats one impressive site.

[ezrunner]

hmm

well,

I know that it is common practice for merchandise that is successful in the US market to be cloned by the larger distributors. They just have it done in china and shipped here.

Those spyders look like some of the next gen stuff I'm seeing from one group now. The cocker surprises me though. It looks like they literally have the same parts.

How funny would it be to have METRIC THREADED cockers running around.

oh well. You make a great gun, people buy it, people copy it.

-rob

[-=Squid=-]

OK, the first one in the warlord series is a BOSS (Now owned by WGP) Dark raider. The second is a ranger. the third is obviously a cocker made out of scrap upgrade parts I wonder how much they cost

[thecavemankevin]

barrel thread autococker

no.....really? what a surprise.


Well they do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.


Tom, didn't you guys have a similar problem with this a number of years ago in Europe somewhere?

[Webmaster]

The grumblings *I* have heard is WGP is now making much of their product over seas - to compete with the mutliple knockoffs of their products already here. The company in Tiawan makes the cocker, or parts of its - and ships them to the US. And in the contract they too can sell the guns - just not to markest that compete with WGP directly...

Thats the rumor I have peiced together. I dont think its just a knock off - because they are using the EXACT same parts as the what is on WGPs stuff. If it was a knock off you would think they would add some different flavor.

[Webmaster]

I dont think its about profits - its about survival.

If a company is making a nearly identical product in both performance and quality (as the cocker knock off are) - you cant expect WGP to survive if they arent competivly priced. Listen to players whine about cost of play. They dont care if its WGP or not - they want a good cocker cheap.

[Jerhew]

well that really turned my stomach

don't get me wrong
i think it's cool that paintball is taking off globally...
everyone should be able to enjoy it

on the other hand...
seeing some generic knockoff that's so rediculously obvious, or even worse, the original company throwing it's integrity aside and allowing the knockoff in the name of greed...
pfft
it's just the wrong way.