"CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)" (ccpbb)
11/26/2014 at 10:57 • Filed to: None
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"CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)" (ccpbb)
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Pegasus said that if their tire molds got stolen and counterfeit tires were reproduced. It was too easy of a job for a skilled machinist to do. It Let me explain with a story of a relative that found themselves in a similar situation.
Someone I know (let's say a relative) used to work in Hong Kong as a machinist, making molds on a production line for some cooker parts. Those moulds were used on and off in a factory. That factory was massive. It was larger than a Costco. You see, the moulds were used on a the production line on and off, that resulted in a lot of moylds as a lot of products were being manufactured. If you have so many moulds that aren't being used as well as the management not enforcing a method of organization, mould theft can occur easily. My relative planned on opening up his own factory, and to start up, he would intend take several moulds and use them to start manufacturing at his own shop he just opened. The original factory wouldn't know. The factory floor was cluttered with moulds all over. A glance over, and you wouldn't notice any difference. It'll take you a while to find out.
Theft isn't always needed. Moulds also get worn out. Especially tire ones. Hypothetically, a machinist can "retire" a mold early and make another one to replace it. The "retired" one then is disposed. And midway between retirement and disposal..they can disappear. My relative planned to do this. But he immigrated to the States. But there are a lot of production line factory owners in Hong Kong that have used this process and various connections to jump start their factory they just opened. They learned how the production line works. They know how it runs like. They can refine the production process to make it more efficient. Things can be twiddled around now that it's not directly connected to the mothership.
The point of this is that the blame of this incident can be put on Pegasus, that didn't track their whereabouts of their moulds with their supplier nor did they maintain organization of the moulds. This just doesn't happen in China or Hong Kong. It happens everywhere, extremely easily, because of crappy organizing and a lazy eye to the whereabouts of the moulds.
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Sweet Trav
> CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
11/26/2014 at 11:06 |
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So it's the company's fault for having their assets stolen by dishonest employees?
Nope. Nope. Nope.
Molds are proprietary and usually contain copyrighted material. Were copyright law a thing in China (it should be except for the massive blow it would pose the Chinese economy of poorly re-produced knock-offs and utter shit-copies), and Pegasus were to find out who took them, the conviction would be swift and the compensatory damages would be huge.
I fail to see how the blame in this could ever be shifted to victim, Pegasus who did literally nothing wrong.
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> Sweet Trav
11/26/2014 at 11:22 |
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That is all of course if their story is true. They could very well be lying, using the fact that this happens so easily to skirt blame for substandard parts that they produced and sold. The only way to be sure is to follow the money, of course that will likely prove difficult either way if they really are stolen/counterfeit or if the company is covering them up.
The best bet would be to folllow the taxes. If it came out of china it was taxed, when it came into America is was taxed again, if you could figure out when it came out of china and into America and who paid the taxes you might be able to find out the truth