Backcountry.com not playing nice
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So what you’re saying Jay, is that if you chose to live you life based on a set of principles rather than price, it may inconvenience you? |
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Folks! I still love your little mountain goat stickers on your heddy rocket boxes and late model Toyotas/Sprinters/Subarus. Please keep putting the mountain goat stickers on your car. |
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I just contacted Backcountry.com and informed them that they have lost my business forever. |
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Bares wrote: So what you’re saying Jay, is that if you chose to live you life based on a set of principles rather than price, it may inconvenience you? Nice twist. What I'm saying is that you can find things you disagree with from nearly any company if you look enough. Be consistent. If I were to be consistent with boycotting companies for doing things I don't like then I'd use almost none. It's not a difficult point to understand. Needs to be a really awful thing for me to boycott. This incident shows something that probably any big company would do. Are you consistent in your boycotts? Or is this one just cool to sound tough about? |
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Jay Dee wrote: You need to quit thinking for yourself and join the mindless mob! |
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No twist, I was just asking a question. I personally haven’t purchased anything from backcountry, and many of the other large retailers, for a very long time. I do this for a verity of reasons, but mostly I’d rather support local business and companies that better match my values. Am I 100% consistent? No. But I’d rather strive for something I believe in and achieve that goal as often as I can, rather than do nothing at all. |
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I support small companies too. We all should. I would have no problem paying more for local companies. Unfortunately, I've picked a path of rock climbing while living 5 hours from good climbing, which means that online is where it's at. I do hope solutions for these trademark issues can find a way to work themselves out. Again, I think the problem is the fact that you can trademark a common term. |
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Gvigliotti Vigliotti wrote: Yup |
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Jay Dee wrote: I support small companies too. We all should. I would have no problem paying more for local companies. Unfortunately, I've picked a path of rock climbing while living 5 hours from good climbing, which means that online is where it's at. I do hope solutions for these trademark issues can find a way to work themselves out. Again, I think the problem is the fact that you can trademark a common term. You can always buy from local shop with online presence. Rock & Snow in New Paltz for example. |
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divnamite wrote: Indeed. Of course the issue not knowing about them. I have learned of alpenglow from MP and have used them. Maybe a thread for mom and pop gear shops is in need. |
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Comparing the situation to Microsoft and Starbucks is fundamentally different. Previous posters have explained the problems associated with trademarking a natural word (Backcountry). |
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This seems to be picking up a little steam. If you look up 'Backcountry' in the news there have been a couple of small articles from small newpapers written about this issue |
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As a consumer in a capitalist economy, you vote every day with your dollars spent. |
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Gerrit Verbeek wrote: Not exactly correct. Amazon, the company, applied to ICANN to get a TLD (top level domain) for their company name. ie. .Amazon. ICANN granted it even after the Amazonian countries of Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador challenged the application. As much as there are things I don't like about Amazon, they didn't sue anyone over this and simply fought off a challenge to their application. Whether it was appropriate to apply for that TLD in the first place is an open question. |
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Really want to move the needle? Forget gearheads and Facebook. Find and post info for the private equity company partners who manage backcountry.com, and als the investors of that PE firm. Start letting them know what’s going on and the huge grassroots fury of the central customer base. Those are the people who can get stuff done immediately. |
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Dave K nailed it. BC committed the cardinal sin of betraying their customer base, their ideals and their expectations. They should reap the awards that follow. |
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Companies need to actively protect their intellectual property (IP). Failing to do so can be costly. |
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Allen Sanderson wrote: im laughing that they are even going after takara sake for their rei sake. rei means cold in japanese, amongst a plethora of other things depending how its used, im guessing thats probably the meaning of the word since that sake is served cold. its a word, not an acronym. |
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Allen Sanderson wrote: Companies need to actively protect their intellectual property (IP). Failing to do so can be costly. Completely agree that companies need to defend trademarks where competitors are trying to use the likeness of the original company to gain an advantage. This is not the case here. This is a tactic to sue companies with insufficient funds in order to set precedent despite a lack of competition (who here thinks the women's avalanche class represents a direct threat that misappropriates the backcountry trademark?) |
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I was wondering why the site/retailer named Backcountry Edge changed their name to Enwild. |