Comments on: Three reasons you’ll be knocked off pt. 1

By: kristin

kristin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:44:51 +0000

Thanks for the information. This was very helpful.

By: birdie

birdie — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:38:46 +0000

Thanks so much for your comment on my knockoff post. It’s true – with more knockoffs, there’s less innovation… that said, a lot of well known designers take 40’s designs, dissect them, and reassemble them – to be sold *au courant*.

I think pricing buyers out of the market (discriminatory high-end pricing) is going to beget knockoffs on some level. If it hurts your business to have your items knocked off, rethink your discriminatory pricing strategy. That’s Econ 101 right there.

Thanks for this post! I have you in my reader, but lately I’ve been bad about commenting.

By: Mary Allen

Mary Allen — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:02:56 +0000

Wow…this is like being in a book club. I think I know what I am doing and then I have a whole new perspective on the subject after hearing from the other readers…Thanks for sharing

By: Three reasons you’ll be knocked off pt. 2

Three reasons you’ll be knocked off pt. 2 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:24:41 +0000

[...] Member Forum « Three reasons you’ll be knocked off pt. 1 [...]

By: ClaireOKC

ClaireOKC — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:07:11 +0000

Gosh Kathleen – you are right on target here. Although I’d really like to respectfully suggest a #1a – a variation on #1: High Price, Period! I think several makers of those all-too-famous prohibitively expensive handbags, are missing a bet here by knocking themselves off. They can carry the hugely expensive bag under their main “name”, and do a knock off under another name. They are really limiting themselves to a very small market, when they could open up to a much larger market with their knockoffs.

But poor quality will always drive a need for a knock off.

From the personal confession department – my favorite thing to knock off is a new design concept – such as inserted darts or fitting mechanisms into what look like appliques and/or other visual design elements – not fitting elements. Your German pattern fits into that category. I love to “hide” fitting elements into what looks like design elements.

Great post.

By: Kids Coats

Kids Coats — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:53:02 +0000

Sweet post. One other reason to get knocked off IMO is Great Product + Poor Delivery. When the copy is ringing the register two months before the original, there’s much less demand left for the original. The buyer therefore presumes the copy is better than the original due to better selling.