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Try contact the authorities about the situation. And scam are what thieves always do and steal and rob people. They are indeed corrupted by lust, pride and greed for power and money.
After reading the title I can't help but think "welcome to the Chinese National business model" I bought a "Made in America, 100% wool shirt" what I got was an acrylic piece of garbage that looked like what I bought. When I saw the shipping label was from inland China & they said my only recourse was to "give it to someone as a gift" I was furious. Being allergic to most synthetic fabrics & a huge proponent of wool really exacerbated things. I discovered their ruse when I read through their "about" page line by line & fact checked it.
At this point, I think it is more than that. I am becoming of the opinion that they are actively working against American interests. It isn't just naked greed... it is malevolence.
Facebook is currently getting sued for profiting off of human trafficking, of course they won't care about unethical ads. They'd never go against China and risk losing all that slave labor money.
My content gets used in Chinese adverts all the time. Including my voice overs. One of my most popular videos kept doing viral sweeps on Facebook and they really don't care about copyright breaches at all. This is why it's really important to have your channel name in shot in every video. (Although they still use the content with the channel name in view!)
@@dibelgelo it's theft. They get the advertising and it appears that bigclive is somehow connected with the product. You can't eat exposure unfortunately, or else there would never be a starving artist
@@dibelgelo the copycats get monetized and recieve ad revenue depending on the platform they are on since they'd get tons of views. Those views and revenue should go to the people that deserve it. It's literally copyright infringement. The Chinese don't give a damn.
There's no shortage of villains in this story, but Facebook is the worst. I refuse to use any of their products. They are utterly corrupt and despicable.
Facebook is extracting money from China with those ads. They remove them when there is a complain, but I agree they should do better. Apple is sending billions of our dollars to China and yet people think they are the best. What kind of logic is that. Apple is the worst by far not Facebook. China is the largest criminal organization in the world and Apple is the main financier. People with Iphone and Macbook are buying WW3 for their children.
A little tip: when you put your watermark on your video, make sure it moves around the screen a lot. Maybe move it to a different place every three or four seconds, so the effort of blurring it or removing it is multiplied exponentially.
This is one of those terrible situations where someone here, comes up with something extraordinary, and someone there buys one and copies it only to flood the market with fakes. Seriously impacts innovators here in the U.S. I bought two of them through your links... thieves are everywhere. I wish we could stomp the thieves. Thanks for sharing this Shawn! We'll spread the word!
RUclips: Not being paid, takes the fakes down in 20 minutes. Facebook, ebay, amazon: Being paid by the thieves, absolutely no incentive to take the fakes down.
RUclips is getting paid for the ads, just like Facebook. Facebook is using doubleclick for their ad tracking and doubleclick is owned by google who also own RUclips. So your theory is flawed. Apple is sending billion to China and yet people love their product. The worst people in this game are people with Iphone and Macbook. Because they knowingly finance the largest and most despicable criminal organisation in the world. China!
RUclips being "responsive" is just the side-effect of their lackluster copyright system where the Chinese sellers could have just claimed to own the copyright on Shawn Woods' video and channel. RUclips isn't any better, it just has a system which happens to workout this time.
Thank you for this video Shawn as I 'almost' bought the Flip n Slide from a Chinese supplier on Amazon! Instead I am ordering from the rightful, deserving USA business! Please keep fighting the good fight! Have now subscribed to your channel!
Majority of Amazon, Walmart, eBay, etc. sellers are CHINESE nationals selling CHINESE junk all round the world. If we don't stop it TODAY, we'll become CHINA tomorrow!!! Write to your State Senator and Representative DEMANDING to STOP American Corporate GREED ASAP!
Shawn is a good dude! He'll probably get this video demonized because hes exposing china! RUclips is working with China as well! Google, Facebook, etc.
Completely agree with DDRUTOU. Standing up and not accepting this behaviour is not called anting, it's called "doing the right thing". Good luck in your crusade against the copyright pirates.
It's crazy but true our world doesn't care if it makes them richer. The only way to truly cut them out is to not use them at all. Kinda weird but local bought products direct is the only way. Amazon is a way too big to care about local companies.
Sue Facebook under the DMCA. If they protect the infringer, they open themselves up to lawsuits as well. May want to get Leonard French involved to help.
I stopped doing business with Amazon for reasons similar to this a long time ago with only one or two exceptions when I got cornered. They clearly don't care about the consumer they only care about money for themselves they have monopolies on so many products it makes me sick. I asked for a refund from the seller on an eBay purchase when I found out he was just a middleman for a Chinese purchase. I always limit my purchases to North America on eBay so it was definitely a sneaky rule breaking game that many Sellers play. I got a refund immediately. I hope somehow the Lord rewards that young man through your video.
Bro, watermark! Get stickers of your channel logo and stick it on your buckets, traps etc too. And we need to make this video known to Facebook. Maybe they'll sort it out. It's disgraceful
Bigclive does this and it's great. by using stickers/writing/other physical things rather than just editing a watermark in, it becomes a part of the video itself, and doesn't annoy me.
Copyright is an issue everywhere, not just China. I used to make 3D content and it was stolen and sold on Second LIfe by thieves. The software that I used to make the 3D content is stolen all the time and put up on Warez sites. Developers are having to get creative to stop the stealing. Many are going to paid subscriptions.
Yep, nothing new. Years ago I went to an Adobe development seminar and it started with the speaker asking, "How many of you have Photoshop?" Hands go up. "How many of you bought Photoshop?" The room busted out in laughter.
My mom saw the ad on Facebook and said she needed it. I immediately thought it was probably your video. I didn't realize at the time it was being copied until I looked on Amazon and there were tons of copies already, so I used your affiliate link.
I met the owner who made Bunch o Balloons. He is an inventor and developed it with his family, this is his main source of income. He spent years in legal battles fighting fakes, he didn't make any money on it. The fault is not just in China, people in the US knowingly buy chinese fakes because they're cheaper.
Big this! People will always want the cheapest product available and that is available as quickly as possible. Morality and supporting your own community/country goes out the window when money is involved. Just how it is.
@@jedidiah5131 Go to a thrift store and pay $1.00 for a great t-shirt that also recycles some local waste and supports a local business. No reason to ever buy a new shirt in the US.
They use them because they are popular. All three platform remove ads when their is a complain . But I agree they should do better. On the other hand China is not doing anything about it. Because no matter what, you will keep buying Apple product and this is how they finance their criminal organization called the People's Republic of China.
It's not really a "scam". Everything you buy is a cheap Chinese clone of something that used to be made in the USA. People are cheap so they could spend $30 for the original or probably less than $10 for some copy.
This really boils my blood, especially as someone who knows more than most about how China works. There will be no repercussions for these pathetic, uncreative, dishonourable thieves since the governing body quietly supports these practices because money. Spread the information, expose the truth, let informed customers decide with their money.
Repercussions? They will make far more money off this than the original inventor, because they have the resources to advertise it everywhere (using other people's footage) and they are making them in volumes that cut their costs way down.
Small business was sold down the river over 20 years ago. Xi Jinping is looked up to and in cahoots with our elected officials. It’s been over for American small businesses basically since Amazon started Prime!
Excellent presentation! We hear about the industrial, technology and science thefts from China all the time! Now we need to protect the small guy working his way up!
Just a tip. If you are going the watermark route be sure to at least pop it at random times and random positions in the video. Otherwise they just stamp their own watermark on top of yours
They don't care. They just use English-language videos from RUclips because they want something that mentions the product and isn't in Chinglish. As long as the watermark doesn't cover the product, they'll gladly use the video anyway.
Well duh, you wanna make sure you don't offend anyone so you have the most amount of people to advertise to with dodgy ads. Gotta maximise those profits baby
Same with RUclips. It went well with RUclips for this special case. But RUclips are just as unethical. They often demonitize videos - and then presnet the videos with *own* ads the video owner foesn't get any money for. Ethics isn't exactly at the top of the priorities for yhe bigger companies. Their main goal is making the companies selling the ads happy. Not the content creators.
while true, companies are made of people. Not all of which are likely to be unethical, so with enough pressure they will either adapt to their customers, or go under. RUclips has changed many times. the most recent was the uptick in listening more to content creators. Which imo is a good thing. Enough people demanded a reasonable change and it happened. Have a nice day. :)
Just FYI, watermarks in the corner are easily cropped. They will crop out your watermark, flip the video horizontally, and adjust saturation to make the copying harder to auto-detect. Better put your watermark right over the trap itself.
RUclips's the only company who took the stolen videos down! This time it's not RUclips's fault. The biggest offender is Facebook, unsurprisingly. They have no ethics.
With 1.5 million subscribers with a very unique niche, Shawn is a RUclips superstar and YT knows it. I assume that Shawn doesn't have that type of notoriety with the other platforms mentioned, while those "advertisers" are spending their money on these other platforms to sell a stolen design using pirated video footage. I would hope and believe that there are lawyers out there willing to represent Shawn and RinneTraps. I think there would be great interest out there if Shawn would video document this legal process as thousands of others out there have dealt with similar frustrations. Meanwhile, RinneTraps should immediately apply some distinctive branding with the Made In America flag directly onto the product, even it's just a decal to distinguish it more.
You’re right, this is disgraceful. These scoundrels are stealing your work and the inventor’s design. Amazon refusing to do anything about it gives me one more reason to dislike Amazon.
Eastern Australia is suffering a devastating mouse plague at the moment. Hopefully a lot of the genuine American article arrives here to help turn the tide.
You would need to dig a very deep hole and use a large diameter plastic pipe. That was all I could think of while watching the original video. All the best from Tasmania.
We call this 'karma; in India. A boomerang of sorts. Americans encouraged Chinese businesses to supply them with cheap goods, including Apple phones. This is the downside of encouraging a nation of people with unscrouplous ethics.
He used to be passionate about bushcraft and then one random nouse trap video went viral and he never made bushcraft videos again :D Thats how easy it is to drop one passion and aquire new one.
not just mouse traps jaggoff, china is doing this with everything, it puts americans out of jobs and OUR money over to china, the CCP, OUR ENEMIES! AMAZON is owned by china good grief you guys
i watched a video from Russell brand with a woman from India .. she was talking about the ice pact from Himalayan mountains melting because of china's carbon output. she said India will starve to death when water dry's up.
Kinda hard to boycott their entire economy when almost every country's products are manufactured there legally. Maybe we should make a research on copyright laws in China and it's enforcement and savage capitalist exploitation of said lack of law enforcement. This would help to boycott just the bad stuff
@@ViniSocramSaint Don't give up! Support your own country's economy and spend that extra coin to help feed your brothers and sisters. If you can't find that product buy it from your favorite cousin's country. I do.
@@ViniSocramSaint FI: Phone is Korean Android. Medicines from US, CA, UK. Cookware from US, GE. Medical supplies from JA, SW as well as my cars. Food is locally grown. Clothing from Thailand, India, VietNam. Love that I help the countries I care for everyday.
@@mikewood1492 don't be an idiot. Climate warming doesn't work like that. Educate yourself. The highest carbon footprint Per Capita is Australia, US, Canada.... Look it up. On the total it is quite natural that country with higher population use more resources them smaller one.
It is definitely time to sue Facebook for copyright violation. Their terms/conditions that require arbitration only apply to content that you personally posted to Facebook. You have made your good faith attempt to resolve your claim using their DMCA compliant system, and they have refused to act, this means that they no longer have protection from copyright violation under the DMCA and are directly liable for monetary damages resulting from the infringement. edit: added the word violation
It's not so much that giants see profit - it's that they rip off another person's work in order to make those profits. Any one of those China companies could make a variation of the trap, use a different color, etc, and blaze their own trail. But they'd rather use existing video work and an existing design. That's the difference between modifying a design and knocking off a design. That's where the moral violation comes in. It's unethical. And apparently Big Tech would rather side with their Chinese godfathers.
lol Quit complaining. It's called capitalism. Are you saying people like Jeff Bezos didn't work hard and had to compete? Bezos and people like him just won the game. That is what capitalism is all about.
I remember a company I used to work for had amplifiers made in China at this one business, and within weeks, another company a block or two away was cloning them and selling them as their own product. That is one country where the term "intellectual property" means nothing.
A german laundry machine company opened a shop in china to sell cheaper basic versions of their equipment. Within a month a new laundry equipment company formed and was selling equipment that was exactly like the German equipment. Lol, serves them right for trusting china.
their arguments is why are we using air when we did not discover air? why are we using gravity when we did not discover gravity? their another argument to this is they aren't copying the thing but they just came up with a better improved version but the greatest is that we are just jealous of china for their great innovations and chinese technology like the 5G because other countries don't want china to rise to be a global leader
Social media sites and Amazon need to be held responsible for this. They’re cashing in so there’s no motivation. Foreign policy needs to get tougher on China as well. Make them feel the consequences.
How are you going to sue some random Chinese company? China doesn't care about trademarks or copyright issues and the Chinese company will simply change their name and relist the item within minutes.
@@jregulatori4672 He is talking about facebook and what not. They are responsible if they are informed of the copyright and they take no action. It is the same reason why RUclips is so jumpy when it comes to this stuff.
The better action would be to send a bill for services to Facebook for using your video, it is a thousands times easier and cheaper to collect on a bill than to prove a fact in court.
google got screwed by china some years ago so google probably isnt supporting the Chinese... meanwhile Facebook probably makes good money selling personal information on European and American countries and their citizens
Glad you made a video of this fact. I was initially going to buy one from Amazon and I had a generic one in the cart because it took some searching to find the one made by Rinne. I eventually found one by Rinne, then ensured the source was made in the USA. Facebook sucks. Glad you watermark everything on your channels. Appreciate your videos!
I just recieved my mouse trap today, June 11, 2021. I ordered it on Amazon. Last week while tracking the delivery online, I learned that it was being shipped from China. I immediately requested a refund through Amazon.
Exactly butif you talk about how biden's drone strike hit civilians as well as targeted an aid worker before the facts came out. Fact checking is a joke in most cases and protects the ones with power. I will believe in fact checking when they fact check their own adverts with the same discretion.
Shawn, You’re a totally cool and swell Dude!👍👍 after watching all your videos about this Flip and Slide bucket lid mouse/rat trap I bought the 4 pack from Rinnie Corp. to be placed in my garage so they don’t get into my cars and motorcycles and chew up everything. And although I am Chinese (Actually a Taiwanese who grew up in the U.S.) I fully support all quality products made the the USA!👍👍Happy New Year!🎆🎇😖🎊🎉🍾🥂
Thanks for adding a link so I could purchase this product from Amazon. I’m totally willing to pay a little more to get the genuine product from the original manufacture while supporting a local small entrepreneur & not a the knockoff folks who stole this idea. Cheers
If you put the copyright label/watermark over the video, make sure it is centered so they can't just crop the video. I know you probably are already thinking it but just in case.
@@fuyuneko71 shawn wants them to stop using his footage. Placing a watermark in the video identifies it as his footage. It then becomes a triviality to place a copyright claim that will be supported.
@@WhatAboutTheBee I know, but there will be a label on the product in the video that will say copyrighted to MouseTrapMonday. So would there be any point in watermarking the video after that?
I submitted the story to Ars Technica, hopefully one of their journalists will do a story about this. Keep an eye out for them to contact you just in case. If it gets media attention, Facebook will be forced to do something to save face. If they don't take them down there's likely a lawsuit to be made, since they ignored a clear takedown notice. You really need to talk to a lawyer about this.
This is not new. Back in the late 1960s my friend went with his parents to Hong Kong and came back with cheap knockoffs of real products. It is the culture of the Chinese to do that. But instead of selling off the streets of Hong Kong, they now have tech complicitors that allow them to sell their rip-offs inside our homes.
Ozzy ozzy ozzy hoy hoy hoy! Every customer has the right too demonstrate disaprovel of any product. My scetch is to place that objectable product on the floor of the shop and walk away from it. No need too stick around for an arguement ! Just keep on walking away from it. This makes me happy too practice this quite and peacefull demontratoin of activeism. I feel like i win, too leave a product on there floor and proudly walk away from it. Fruit herb & nut all the way back too were it came from :-))
Bruh, this has been happening for several decades. Even Chinese brands in China get copied and counterfeited in China. If you want to hire a lawyer, it might get you somewhere, but ultimately it's likely a lost cause.
Even shitty Amazon rips off popular products and sells them under their own 'amazon basics' brand name. I'm sure the commissions they make on pirated goods is incentive enough to keep them from taking it more seriously.
This is unfortunately becoming a common practice with Chinese businesses. There are ethical businesses based in China but the ccp has no interest in punishing unethical and illegal businesses that harm US manufacturing. So be careful who you order from.
If anything, they probably encourage it. A weaker US is better for them, they've been stealing tech and other information for years on end from all countries yet we all kowtow to them
I live in Shenzhen and sell on Amazon, and these companies don't just target small companies and or US based, they target everyone the moment you have a selling product. It's a pity that Facebook doesn't care, but hey that's Facebook for you. The best thing to do is actually buy the product using the payment method of their websites and afterwards claim a copy write/fraudulent seller to the payment gateway(PayPal or what ever else). Get your money back and the payment gateway gets closed forever for the seller and more than just your purchase will get confiscated. Because that's the true bottleneck of those operations, payment gateways.
With Facebook & Amazon they'll only listen to lawyers, and shun the rest because lawyers have enough power to truly have a effect to their bottom line.
Just the Chinese business and big tech? Not all the others that constantly rip people off, like Chrysler, Ford, Apple, Amazon, GM, Microsoft, Alphabet (parent company RUclips and Google) nearly every real estate business and used car lot on the planet, most banks, and insurance companies, Politicians (of every party or affiliation) pharmaceutical companies. Basically any entity that chases profit.
Nothing is more uneducated as believing a single country is exclusive to fraud and rip offs. Intelligent people focus on the issue not the scape goating
What I think it, sadly, comes down to is that you have to strike with a lawyer. Fb has to take those seriously. Well, as long as the case per se holds water on the strikers part.
I am the Hong Kong Chinese, I realized this video under the ADVChina Podcast video on 5/14/2021. Not just this mouse trap, too many products around the world had suffered this. Mainland Chinese businessmen doesn't respect copyrights. Amazon and the social media giants should take this responsibility to detect this. I apologise on behalf on Chinese, my nation businessmen lost moral.
If they have the patent for this trap, then why not sue facebook, amazon, twitter, and other websites promoting the stolen product? Those websites are making money from it as well, they should be held accountable. I know it's easier said than done, however it might be worth a shot.
@@longhai6458 Where to begin with?... Selling weapons and pushing wars around the world, pouring trillions in the military while denying Healthcare and Education, puting sanctions and accusing other countries of things that the US does... Having PACs that buy politicians by financing their campaings... Ethic is not a quality of the US...
@@cesarcesar1961 You're kidding right? It very common to see a product from some small company to be copied and sold by another company (unless you patent your idea, which would give you a little protection). I wouldn't be surprised if you where able to research the path from original to copy that it goes through some American (person/company) that sent it off to China to have it made at a lower cost and they (the American) is raking in a percentage of the sale!
I am Chinese American and ashamed that my countrymen would be so greedy at the expense of others. I just purchased a 4 pack from Rinne. Thanks Shawn for speaking up!
Walmart has done this since 1990s... Buying items from local craftsmen/women during craft shows. Sending those items "overseas" to be made in large production.
Similar thing happened to "Aquachigger" a metal detecting website. Some guy in Saudi Arabia stole a couple of his videos and was making money off them. Chigg complained to RUclips and their response was they were considering terminating his channel for filing a false claim. Aquachigger has more then a million subscribers but the other guy has over 4 million. You know who was making the most money for RUclips. But after a few hundred thousand complaints RUclips changed their stance and took down the 2 videos in question and apologized. Time for us to raise some heck for you.
Rinne's Flip and Slide is only available for sale to the USA and Canada. Yes, I checked their site. It's hard to be loyal when you can't buy the thing overseas.
It's dangerous to think of Chinese citizens and the Chinese Communist Party/ Chinese military (PLA) as a single unified "them". The CCP did not do a thing about IP within and outside of China which allows some Chinese company stealing designs from the US as well as other Chinese companies that actually invented new things/ideas. Anyway, Chinese citizens don't steal military tech. They are not interested in it. However, the CCP is very interested in stealing our military tech.
all people are "good" because good is an abstract concept. these are probably drop shippers, but assuming shawn is correct and this is from domestic chinese businesses are they really "bad" for offering a service for a lesser price to feed there familys? This is unfair, but the action itself is not "bad"
@@jimmothypakistan5223 if a person breaks into your home & steals all of your possessions then puts them in your spare car & steals that as well to get away in and then sells all of your stuff that they stole from you in order to feed there family would that be acceptable to you ? Would you be willing to take the loss or would you want compensation ASAP ?
@@jimmothypakistan5223 Ok Socrates, sure it's an abstract concept, but that which is considered good or bad by the overwhelming majority borders on fact rather than opinion.
@@Savage3OO6 anything considered universally "bad" is always unfair. Good is a relative concept and prosocial/antisocial are far better qualifiers of thr quality of a person rather then an excuse for people to make themselves feel better then othets
I think in the future you should put a watermark on all footage showing new mouse trap designs. Should be placed right across the footage, so it cannot be cropped out. Your viewers will understand, and actually appreciate it :)
@Troy johnson that is what I meant. On all video clips showing off new trap designs and products in action. Him talking, nature and antique traps probably don't need it. Although there is an argument to be made to have all "steal worthy" footage watermarked
Need to pass new law to confiscate all the proceeds from the counterfeit sellers from Amazon and eBay, plus penalties to the sellers and Amazon and eBay. Let's brainstorm of any other ways possible to stop the thieves.
If something like that got through congress the corrupt businesses would probably use it as a tool to file copyright claims against small businesses and get their profits/accounts frozen.
America has made China the biggest economy on earth with free trade. The answer is to regulate and punish the practices. If China won't respect patents there should be sanctions
Ha, you mean the same people that made and upheld election laws? Hahaha. Face it, the usa is weak and treats its people like animals on a money farm. You’re all screwed. Everyone hates the usa, even Americans. You’ve been sold out in every way possible by everyone possible
I too saw these ads on Twitter last week. I recognised your footage being used as the ad and wondered if you partnered up with them. I'm glad you addressed this issue. Now I'll definitely know not to buy from these unethical businesses!
Facebook operate in the following manner: If you pay to promote, you are immune to any rules. If you didn't pay and it went viral, then you are violating Facebook profit code. You are banned until you pay to promote.
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Try contact the authorities about the situation. And scam are what thieves always do and steal and rob people. They are indeed corrupted by lust, pride and greed for power and money.
After reading the title I can't help but think "welcome to the Chinese National business model" I bought a "Made in America, 100% wool shirt" what I got was an acrylic piece of garbage that looked like what I bought. When I saw the shipping label was from inland China & they said my only recourse was to "give it to someone as a gift" I was furious. Being allergic to most synthetic fabrics & a huge proponent of wool really exacerbated things. I discovered their ruse when I read through their "about" page line by line & fact checked it.
you have a typo :p
"legitimate"
Hi my heart goes out to you
Facebook has NO interest in removing misleading or unethical ads - they make too much money from them.
At this point, I think it is more than that. I am becoming of the opinion that they are actively working against American interests. It isn't just naked greed... it is malevolence.
Facebook is currently getting sued for profiting off of human trafficking, of course they won't care about unethical ads. They'd never go against China and risk losing all that slave labor money.
This is why I’m not involved in Facebook or Twitter or (well whatever)! If you haven’t seen the Social Dilemma, it’s worth a watch.
@Dajuan Washington lmao yes
Facebook is full of Elon Musk sponsored scam ads yet they have something called 'community standards'.
My content gets used in Chinese adverts all the time. Including my voice overs. One of my most popular videos kept doing viral sweeps on Facebook and they really don't care about copyright breaches at all.
This is why it's really important to have your channel name in shot in every video. (Although they still use the content with the channel name in view!)
I watch your stuff mate. Good content! Love the X-ray device. Lol
How is this hurting you if at all? They made your vids go viral, thanks for free promotion, no?
@@dibelgelo it's theft. They get the advertising and it appears that bigclive is somehow connected with the product. You can't eat exposure unfortunately, or else there would never be a starving artist
I never thought I would see you here
@@dibelgelo the copycats get monetized and recieve ad revenue depending on the platform they are on since they'd get tons of views. Those views and revenue should go to the people that deserve it. It's literally copyright infringement. The Chinese don't give a damn.
There's no shortage of villains in this story, but Facebook is the worst. I refuse to use any of their products. They are utterly corrupt and despicable.
Hear, hear!
Facebook is extracting money from China with those ads. They remove them when there is a complain, but I agree they should do better. Apple is sending billions of our dollars to China and yet people think they are the best. What kind of logic is that. Apple is the worst by far not Facebook. China is the largest criminal organization in the world and Apple is the main financier. People with Iphone and Macbook are buying WW3 for their children.
FAKEbook isn't the only business. There are alot more!
I canceled my facebook account.
@@erictremblay6867 all of the big tech companies are pure evil.
A little tip: when you put your watermark on your video, make sure it moves around the screen a lot. Maybe move it to a different place every three or four seconds, so the effort of blurring it or removing it is multiplied exponentially.
Eyesore for the viewer
Top idea, as long as it does not look like Mud
This is one of those terrible situations where someone here, comes up with something extraordinary, and someone there buys one and copies it only to flood the market with fakes. Seriously impacts innovators here in the U.S. I bought two of them through your links... thieves are everywhere. I wish we could stomp the thieves. Thanks for sharing this Shawn! We'll spread the word!
I hate the chinese
@@cccc285 China mainlanders*
@@lexerwilliams8880 indeed. And he did mean that yes. He was saying xii and the stealing dictatorship.
@@lexerwilliams8880 the people are amazing the owners are curropt.
It happens all the time. Doesn't matter if you're a private individual, a business, or even a Government.
RUclips: Not being paid, takes the fakes down in 20 minutes. Facebook, ebay, amazon: Being paid by the thieves, absolutely no incentive to take the fakes down.
Needs to say "Made in America by an American!"
The evil Freemason U.S.A. politicians have opened up trade with the evil murdering communist Chinese government politicians how many years ago ?
RUclips is getting paid for the ads, just like Facebook. Facebook is using doubleclick for their ad tracking and doubleclick is owned by google who also own RUclips. So your theory is flawed. Apple is sending billion to China and yet people love their product. The worst people in this game are people with Iphone and Macbook. Because they knowingly finance the largest and most despicable criminal organisation in the world. China!
RUclips being "responsive" is just the side-effect of their lackluster copyright system where the Chinese sellers could have just claimed to own the copyright on Shawn Woods' video and channel. RUclips isn't any better, it just has a system which happens to workout this time.
There is one... Sue Amazon for Copyright Infringement!!!!! They are the ones ultimately selling the product!!!!!
I don’t need one of these traps, but now I think I’ll buy one from the real seller just to support him.
MMM--A great gift to somebody you don't like!
I'm thinking of doing the same thing! Buy one genuine one, to support the real designer.
I had exactly the same thought
Just did that...great idea....fkn "China"!!!
Yeah me too
Thank you for this video Shawn as I 'almost' bought the Flip n Slide from a Chinese supplier on Amazon! Instead I am ordering from the rightful, deserving USA business! Please keep fighting the good fight! Have now subscribed to your channel!
Shawn, don't apologize for ranting. You are proof that humanity contains good people in it. Thank you for being who you are. We need you, buddy
Majority of Amazon, Walmart, eBay, etc. sellers are CHINESE nationals selling CHINESE junk all round the world. If we don't stop it TODAY, we'll become CHINA tomorrow!!!
Write to your State Senator and Representative DEMANDING to STOP American Corporate GREED ASAP!
Shawn is a good dude! He'll probably get this video demonized because hes exposing china! RUclips is working with China as well! Google, Facebook, etc.
@@nostradamus9608 exactly!!! 💯💯👍🏾👍🏾🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪🏾
Completely agree with DDRUTOU. Standing up and not accepting this behaviour is not called anting, it's called "doing the right thing". Good luck in your crusade against the copyright pirates.
Ranting muddles your message and reduces your reach and good is an abstract concept.
Those other companies don't care because they're making big bucks off of it as well.
Yup Facebook and Amazon are just as bad
Its insane!!
It's crazy but true our world doesn't care if it makes them richer. The only way to truly cut them out is to not use them at all. Kinda weird but local bought products direct is the only way. Amazon is a way too big to care about local companies.
Sue Facebook under the DMCA. If they protect the infringer, they open themselves up to lawsuits as well. May want to get Leonard French involved to help.
Good idea but Facebook is rich the only way to do it is probably a class action lawsuit
@@foxmore262dosen’t matter someone needs to stand up
Yep
hawaiin judge enters.
@@countbleck35 nani
I stopped doing business with Amazon for reasons similar to this a long time ago with only one or two exceptions when I got cornered. They clearly don't care about the consumer they only care about money for themselves they have monopolies on so many products it makes me sick. I asked for a refund from the seller on an eBay purchase when I found out he was just a middleman for a Chinese purchase. I always limit my purchases to North America on eBay so it was definitely a sneaky rule breaking game that many Sellers play. I got a refund immediately. I hope somehow the Lord rewards that young man through your video.
Well said. I say, Made in USA is a good brand. 🇬🇧
When he said “RUclips’s the golden standard” I couldn’t help but chuckle.
Atleast their faulty copywright system does work when needed to work,unlike the no copywright systems in other platforms.
no offense, but agreed. lol
Oh yes hahaha! Haha? As he laughed maniacally in the fashion of Mandark from Dexter's laboratory?!! Haha hahaha!
@entrepreneur What a Looney you are.
@@Galko655e dude... it's "copyright"
Bro, watermark! Get stickers of your channel logo and stick it on your buckets, traps etc too. And we need to make this video known to Facebook. Maybe they'll sort it out. It's disgraceful
Simple stickers do sound like a good way to low tech protect your stuff
That is a really good idea, especially with copyright infringement. He needs to see this idea
He should even put stickers on the mice and rats, for good measure.
Any links to the chinese version?
Bigclive does this and it's great.
by using stickers/writing/other physical things rather than just editing a watermark in, it becomes a part of the video itself, and doesn't annoy me.
This is why science channels watermark all their videos
You need to have stickers or something to put on the stuff you are testing
the stickers are actually much appealing versus a digital watermark. even just wrap the buckets or near the doors.
Copyright is an issue everywhere, not just China. I used to make 3D content and it was stolen and sold on Second LIfe by thieves. The software that I used to make the 3D content is stolen all the time and put up on Warez sites. Developers are having to get creative to stop the stealing. Many are going to paid subscriptions.
Yep, nothing new. Years ago I went to an Adobe development seminar and it started with the speaker asking, "How many of you have Photoshop?" Hands go up. "How many of you bought Photoshop?" The room busted out in laughter.
@@icin4d Exactly, lol.
My mom saw the ad on Facebook and said she needed it. I immediately thought it was probably your video. I didn't realize at the time it was being copied until I looked on Amazon and there were tons of copies already, so I used your affiliate link.
I met the owner who made Bunch o Balloons. He is an inventor and developed it with his family, this is his main source of income. He spent years in legal battles fighting fakes, he didn't make any money on it. The fault is not just in China, people in the US knowingly buy chinese fakes because they're cheaper.
Big this! People will always want the cheapest product available and that is available as quickly as possible. Morality and supporting your own community/country goes out the window when money is involved.
Just how it is.
Always check where your things are made before you buy them! buying things made from china only encourage and fund their efforts!
I remember them. I bought from their original Kickstarter campaign and couldn’t believe how fast the copies came out!
Pretty simple do you want to pay 40.00 for a t-shirt or 5.00 at Wally mart...I'll buy the 5.00 t-shirts...
@@jedidiah5131 Go to a thrift store and pay $1.00 for a great t-shirt that also recycles some local waste and supports a local business. No reason to ever buy a new shirt in the US.
Even worse that the companies will fork over money without doing a background check. They don't care about quality, they only want cheap supply.
Explain your ignorant concept of how companies “fork over money without doing background checks”. I want to know how you think it works.
Bruh yeah that's capitalism. If you don't like it, overthrow capitalism
@@cjr1881 Are you a shill or something else? Seems like you are trying to defend what greedy companies from china are doing.
I wish you and the legitimate creators of the mouse trap success in this struggle.
They probably are already set for life, but still sucks they are stolen from.
The scammers probably use Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram because they won't do anything about it.
Exactly
They use them because they are popular. All three platform remove ads when their is a complain . But I agree they should do better. On the other hand China is not doing anything about it. Because no matter what, you will keep buying Apple product and this is how they finance their criminal organization called the People's Republic of China.
@@erictremblay6867
That is true: Their criminal syndicate IS a governing body.
It's not really a "scam". Everything you buy is a cheap Chinese clone of something that used to be made in the USA. People are cheap so they could spend $30 for the original or probably less than $10 for some copy.
If only China was conservative. Social media would shut them down in minutes.
*Time for justice folks! Off to Amazon to leave some reviews on the knockoffs!* 👮♀️
Just put in as many as Amazon will allow for non verified purchase.
Might help more to report the ads as abusive.
Just reported 5 of them myself.
And leave positive reviews on the legitimate product
you click the Report incorrect product information under the 5 bullet points on Amazon listings
This really boils my blood, especially as someone who knows more than most about how China works. There will be no repercussions for these pathetic, uncreative, dishonourable thieves since the governing body quietly supports these practices because money. Spread the information, expose the truth, let informed customers decide with their money.
Not just money, if it harms the us they would consider it gain enough.
Repercussions? They will make far more money off this than the original inventor, because they have the resources to advertise it everywhere (using other people's footage) and they are making them in volumes that cut their costs way down.
This is what you get for letting China take over as the world's primary manufacturer and establish a monopoly
Small business was sold down the river over 20 years ago. Xi Jinping is looked up to and in cahoots with our elected officials. It’s been over for American small businesses basically since Amazon started Prime!
Intellectual property doesn't exist
Excellent presentation! We hear about the industrial, technology and science thefts from China all the time! Now we need to protect the small guy working his way up!
Just a tip. If you are going the watermark route be sure to at least pop it at random times and random positions in the video. Otherwise they just stamp their own watermark on top of yours
They don't care. They just use English-language videos from RUclips because they want something that mentions the product and isn't in Chinglish. As long as the watermark doesn't cover the product, they'll gladly use the video anyway.
Facebook keeps calm about flagrant like this, but flips over and acts ban-happy for the dumbest stuff. Goddamn.
Well duh, you wanna make sure you don't offend anyone so you have the most amount of people to advertise to with dodgy ads. Gotta maximise those profits baby
Same with RUclips. It went well with RUclips for this special case. But RUclips are just as unethical. They often demonitize videos - and then presnet the videos with *own* ads the video owner foesn't get any money for.
Ethics isn't exactly at the top of the priorities for yhe bigger companies. Their main goal is making the companies selling the ads happy. Not the content creators.
while true, companies are made of people. Not all of which are likely to be unethical, so with enough pressure they will either adapt to their customers, or go under. RUclips has changed many times. the most recent was the uptick in listening more to content creators. Which imo is a good thing. Enough people demanded a reasonable change and it happened. Have a nice day. :)
They even banned Constitutional quotes made by Americans!
They'll take down our president but won't be concerned with thieves
Stop using Amazon and eBay to buy things ! Allow big companies to control your options and this is what you end up with… Great vid Shawn.
Just FYI, watermarks in the corner are easily cropped. They will crop out your watermark, flip the video horizontally, and adjust saturation to make the copying harder to auto-detect. Better put your watermark right over the trap itself.
Or wear a glove with his watermark
The most efficient way I’d to put Watermark with bad month of their President in Chinese they don’t dare to use
better yet: 2 watermarks. One the correct way and one flipped horizontally that way even if they try that trick there will still be a mark
Put "Taiwan Independence" , "Hong Kong Independence", "Free Hong Kong" helps..... From Hong Kong
@@MrLogan-ji6nlI know it’s 2 years late but the fact that he actually did this is so funny 😂
Ridiculous! So sad to hear this happening to a good American company. Thank you Shawn for sharing this with the community.
If only RUclipss copyright system wasn't so easily exploited. I'm glad it worked out for you in this instance.
RUclips's the only company who took the stolen videos down! This time it's not RUclips's fault. The biggest offender is Facebook, unsurprisingly. They have no ethics.
Chinese have been doing this for a long time . Chinese quality is very poor .
RUclips is the villian turned hero in this new story arc of Mousetrap Monday.
With 1.5 million subscribers with a very unique niche, Shawn is a RUclips superstar and YT knows it. I assume that Shawn doesn't have that type of notoriety with the other platforms mentioned, while those "advertisers" are spending their money on these other platforms to sell a stolen design using pirated video footage. I would hope and believe that there are lawyers out there willing to represent Shawn and RinneTraps. I think there would be great interest out there if Shawn would video document this legal process as thousands of others out there have dealt with similar frustrations. Meanwhile, RinneTraps should immediately apply some distinctive branding with the Made In America flag directly onto the product, even it's just a decal to distinguish it more.
You’re right, this is disgraceful.
These scoundrels are stealing your work and the inventor’s design.
Amazon refusing to do anything about it gives me one more reason to dislike Amazon.
What is Amazon supposed to do? Shawn isn't the patent holder (If there is one). The patent holder has to take this to court.
Eastern Australia is suffering a devastating mouse plague at the moment. Hopefully a lot of the genuine American article arrives here to help turn the tide.
This would fill up to the bream in seconds!
I think they’d need much bigger buckets
You would need to dig a very deep hole and use a large diameter plastic pipe. That was all I could think of while watching the original video. All the best from Tasmania.
"One bite"....it kills them dead !
@@Ethan_488 Need one for barrels.
We call this 'karma; in India. A boomerang of sorts. Americans encouraged Chinese businesses to supply them with cheap goods, including Apple phones. This is the downside of encouraging a nation of people with unscrouplous ethics.
No one on the planet is more passionate about mousetraps than this guy
He used to be passionate about bushcraft and then one random nouse trap video went viral and he never made bushcraft videos again :D Thats how easy it is to drop one passion and aquire new one.
Almost as much as China loves ripping off other peoples ideas. Definitely not as much as big tech loves helping Amazon crush small business.
not just mouse traps jaggoff, china is doing this with everything, it puts americans out of jobs and OUR money over to china, the CCP, OUR ENEMIES!
AMAZON is owned by china good grief you guys
I like my cat better - it disposes of the mice for me.
@@deaniversen351 who cares you got entrepreneurs
This is the exact reason why our society continues to crumble. I'm appalled by this situation.
If only there was a person who ran on a platform of fighting IP theft and general trade imbalance with China....
Lol yeah ok, our society is crumbling because of international copyright laws. Sure.
@@kc-lz8gs If you think this is purely about international ip theft then you are a simpleton.
There are much worse things going on. Watch the video documentary called, 'IN LIES WE TRUST' by Doctor Lenny Horowitz.
General MacArthur was right. We should have nuked China when we had the chance in the Korean War.
In india we are already running "Boycott Chinese goods" movement , world should come together against the lizard 🦎.
i watched a video from Russell brand with a woman from India .. she was talking about the ice pact from Himalayan mountains melting because of china's carbon output. she said India will starve to death when water dry's up.
Kinda hard to boycott their entire economy when almost every country's products are manufactured there legally. Maybe we should make a research on copyright laws in China and it's enforcement and savage capitalist exploitation of said lack of law enforcement. This would help to boycott just the bad stuff
@@ViniSocramSaint Don't give up! Support your own country's economy and spend that extra coin to help feed your brothers and sisters. If you can't find that product buy it from your favorite cousin's country. I do.
@@ViniSocramSaint FI: Phone is Korean Android. Medicines from US, CA, UK. Cookware from US, GE. Medical supplies from JA, SW as well as my cars. Food is locally grown. Clothing from Thailand, India, VietNam. Love that I help the countries I care for everyday.
@@mikewood1492 don't be an idiot. Climate warming doesn't work like that.
Educate yourself.
The highest carbon footprint Per Capita is Australia, US, Canada....
Look it up.
On the total it is quite natural that country with higher population use more resources them smaller one.
Just ordered mine from the link below with PayPal! Thanks for keeping companies honest.
It is definitely time to sue Facebook for copyright violation. Their terms/conditions that require arbitration only apply to content that you personally posted to Facebook. You have made your good faith attempt to resolve your claim using their DMCA compliant system, and they have refused to act, this means that they no longer have protection from copyright violation under the DMCA and are directly liable for monetary damages resulting from the infringement.
edit: added the word violation
Or you could just have s lawyer draft a settlement offer and send it to them.
Unfortunatly this is where the American dream has wound up. Work ethic, creativity, and integrity struggle to compete against giants who see profit.
it's a copy of an Australian frog trap from the 90s... so who copied who?
@@chrisdawes7270 let's see your Australian frog trap?
Nicely put. I find it painful to see inventors ripped off, either financially, or in terms of reputation.
It's not so much that giants see profit - it's that they rip off another person's work in order to make those profits.
Any one of those China companies could make a variation of the trap, use a different color, etc, and blaze their own trail. But they'd rather use existing video work and an existing design. That's the difference between modifying a design and knocking off a design.
That's where the moral violation comes in. It's unethical. And apparently Big Tech would rather side with their Chinese godfathers.
lol Quit complaining. It's called capitalism. Are you saying people like Jeff Bezos didn't work hard and had to compete? Bezos and people like him just won the game. That is what capitalism is all about.
I remember a company I used to work for had amplifiers made in China at this one business, and within weeks, another company a block or two away was cloning them and selling them as their own product. That is one country where the term "intellectual property" means nothing.
They are genuine bugmen.
That's because they are morally bankrupt.
A german laundry machine company opened a shop in china to sell cheaper basic versions of their equipment. Within a month a new laundry equipment company formed and was selling equipment that was exactly like the German equipment. Lol, serves them right for trusting china.
@@MNms-ny1gl that's the new communism
their arguments is why are we using air when we did not discover air? why are we using gravity when we did not discover gravity? their another argument to this is they aren't copying the thing but they just came up with a better improved version but the greatest is that we are just jealous of china for their great innovations and chinese technology like the 5G because other countries don't want china to rise to be a global leader
Social media sites and Amazon need to be held responsible for this. They’re cashing in so there’s no motivation. Foreign policy needs to get tougher on China as well. Make them feel the consequences.
Free market bad ahh yess
If you filed a copyright claim with them and it is not taken down, it opens them up to liability to be sued.
How are you going to sue some random Chinese company? China doesn't care about trademarks or copyright issues and the Chinese company will simply change their name and relist the item within minutes.
@@jregulatori4672 He is talking about facebook and what not. They are responsible if they are informed of the copyright and they take no action. It is the same reason why RUclips is so jumpy when it comes to this stuff.
The better action would be to send a bill for services to Facebook for using your video, it is a thousands times easier and cheaper to collect on a bill than to prove a fact in court.
@Peter Evans mate ur joking right? Ur not siding with the Chinese companies right???
@Peter Evans I’m not sure but you sound like a guy from a shitty Chinese company
That's pretty bad when RUclips is the gold standard for protecting content creators...
google got screwed by china some years ago so google probably isnt supporting the Chinese... meanwhile Facebook probably makes good money selling personal information on European and American countries and their citizens
@@goodolrainbowpet Good call outs.
RUclips, protecting, LOL.
Rebuild the mouse trap with a Winnie the Pooh version of their dictator. They won't copy that.
lmao Biden has dementia
Smart.
Or "Free Tibet"
Delete the video then make the trap look like poop that drink piss realisticly they would not dare to copy that
bloody genius
Glad you made a video of this fact. I was initially going to buy one from Amazon and I had a generic one in the cart because it took some searching to find the one made by Rinne. I eventually found one by Rinne, then ensured the source was made in the USA. Facebook sucks. Glad you watermark everything on your channels. Appreciate your videos!
I just recieved my mouse trap today, June 11, 2021. I ordered it on Amazon. Last week while tracking the delivery online, I learned that it was being shipped from China. I immediately requested a refund through Amazon.
Well done.
poggers
i meant they not i
I did the same and ordered from Rinne
Pretty sure the one we have on the way isn't the real deal, but it's heaps cheaper and it's actually in stock too bad so sad.
Facebook literally makes all their money from ads, they don’t care 🤣
Exactly butif you talk about how biden's drone strike hit civilians as well as targeted an aid worker before the facts came out. Fact checking is a joke in most cases and protects the ones with power. I will believe in fact checking when they fact check their own adverts with the same discretion.
Time to cease and desist
If you're not giving them money, then you're not their customer so they don't give a darn about you.
That's why I never buy any product that's rammed in my face
I deleted my FaceBook account years ago, never again
I love how Amazon has turned off reviews to stop people from getting the truth out 🤣🤣🤣
Can't stand Amazon and their China crap products. Hiding country of origin! Buy USA!!!
Shawn, You’re a totally cool and swell Dude!👍👍 after watching all your videos about this Flip and Slide bucket lid mouse/rat trap I bought the 4 pack from Rinnie Corp. to be placed in my garage so they don’t get into my cars and motorcycles and chew up everything. And although I am Chinese (Actually a Taiwanese who grew up in the U.S.) I fully support all quality products made the the USA!👍👍Happy New Year!🎆🎇😖🎊🎉🍾🥂
The most mild-mannered rant ever.
That's him but I'll point out that he can't swear on RUclips.
@@jimmiller6704 that's true but I bet he curses very little if at all in real life anyway
@@jimmiller6704 his voice remains relativly calm
I could do yoga to these rants.
@@wyattwilliams2457 There's a shake to his voice.
He's worked up.
I bought one on Amazon, then watched this video and cancelled my order so I could order from the real company.
This is why I hate Facebook and will never download it.
Im with you stay strong.
the conservative
Thanks for adding a link so I could purchase this product from Amazon. I’m totally willing to pay a little more to get the genuine product from the original manufacture while supporting a local small entrepreneur & not a the knockoff folks who stole this idea. Cheers
If you put the copyright label/watermark over the video, make sure it is centered so they can't just crop the video. I know you probably are already thinking it but just in case.
Would you have to watermark the video if the label is on the product?
@@fuyuneko71 shawn wants them to stop using his footage. Placing a watermark in the video identifies it as his footage. It then becomes a triviality to place a copyright claim that will be supported.
@@WhatAboutTheBee I know, but there will be a label on the product in the video that will say copyrighted to MouseTrapMonday.
So would there be any point in watermarking the video after that?
@@fuyuneko71 It would make it a ton more difficult for them to edit usable footage from the videos.
It doesn't need to be in the center. If Shawn makes a copyright violation claim, it should be obvious that the uncropped version is the original.
I think we need a mouse trap for these illegitimate businesses
A BIG RAT TRAP WOULD BE BETTER!
@@honigtrailapiary4341 Underrated sassy comment and reply, have a like, you two
And maybe burned down lol
More like a dog trap
Yea a giant Nuke.
I submitted the story to Ars Technica, hopefully one of their journalists will do a story about this. Keep an eye out for them to contact you just in case. If it gets media attention, Facebook will be forced to do something to save face. If they don't take them down there's likely a lawsuit to be made, since they ignored a clear takedown notice. You really need to talk to a lawyer about this.
Most news outlets really like chinese bussines so my hopes are low but we should always show them these thing!
This is not new. Back in the late 1960s my friend went with his parents to Hong Kong and came back with cheap knockoffs of real products. It is the culture of the Chinese to do that. But instead of selling off the streets of Hong Kong, they now have tech complicitors that allow them to sell their rip-offs inside our homes.
They never care about "stealing".
They think its just "copying".
China been doing that for years
copying is not the worse, counterfeiting without quality, or even worse out right scamming.
In Chinese Communism there is no copyright law - only profits :P Ironic isn't it
Oh they care, but only when you do it to them
You mean, like if someone had a mini ''great wall of china'' that they marketed as great American border idea ? That kind of copying ?
Content creators should unite to sue the big platforms for copyright abuse.
Ozzy ozzy ozzy hoy hoy hoy!
Every customer has the right too demonstrate disaprovel of any product. My scetch is to place that objectable product on the floor of the shop and walk away from it. No need too stick around for an arguement ! Just keep on walking away from it. This makes me happy too practice this quite and peacefull demontratoin of activeism. I feel like i win, too leave a product on there floor and proudly walk away from it.
Fruit herb & nut all the way back too were it came from :-))
Unite to teach Chinese a lesson about copyright
Class action time!
and the frog trap this mouse trap is copied from?
Great idea
This story applies to nearly everything from China. Which is nearly everything on Amazon or in stores.
OK, blame them for finding business opportunities and offering better prices...
@@germancarrasco2028 you mean stealing designs and selling cheaper , lower quality versions?
Glad they are stealing from America, USA stole from whole worl and pretty much everything, you deserve to get the taste of your own medecine.
@@tabularasa8769 not stealing from America
Stealing from a kid in his early twenties who just so happens to be American.
@@germancarrasco2028 Communists thieves........ That's when they ain't sabotaging western businesses..
Bruh, this has been happening for several decades. Even Chinese brands in China get copied and counterfeited in China. If you want to hire a lawyer, it might get you somewhere, but ultimately it's likely a lost cause.
"Who cares about ethics if it makes you fat amounts of money"
- big tech, most likely
Big tech period change my mind
@@soyo1235 Big Oil, big pharma, big anything basically. It's all driven by profit, profit, profit.
And while big tech outsource their own factories to China
Basically how dare you buy directly from China while bypassing Apple and Amazon
China when
Chyna stealing numba one
chinese businesses are doing such practices across all kinds of product categories... glad someone realized it
Even shitty Amazon rips off popular products and sells them under their own 'amazon basics' brand name. I'm sure the commissions they make on pirated goods is incentive enough to keep them from taking it more seriously.
okay let's delete the chinese word from my comment
Good job RUclips for dealing with the stolen video. Keep up the good work Shawn and great job RinneTraps.
Thank you for clarifying that. Just ordered the trap directly from the manufacturer!
This is unfortunately becoming a common practice with Chinese businesses. There are ethical businesses based in China but the ccp has no interest in punishing unethical and illegal businesses that harm US manufacturing. So be careful who you order from.
If anything, they probably encourage it. A weaker US is better for them, they've been stealing tech and other information for years on end from all countries yet we all kowtow to them
I live in Shenzhen and sell on Amazon, and these companies don't just target small companies and or US based, they target everyone the moment you have a selling product. It's a pity that Facebook doesn't care, but hey that's Facebook for you. The best thing to do is actually buy the product using the payment method of their websites and afterwards claim a copy write/fraudulent seller to the payment gateway(PayPal or what ever else). Get your money back and the payment gateway gets closed forever for the seller and more than just your purchase will get confiscated. Because that's the true bottleneck of those operations, payment gateways.
With Facebook & Amazon they'll only listen to lawyers, and shun the rest because lawyers have enough power to truly have a effect to their bottom line.
This video seriously boils my blood. I hate shady Chinese business and big tech. So this hits both buttons
Just the Chinese business and big tech? Not all the others that constantly rip people off, like Chrysler, Ford, Apple, Amazon, GM, Microsoft, Alphabet (parent company RUclips and Google) nearly every real estate business and used car lot on the planet, most banks, and insurance companies, Politicians (of every party or affiliation) pharmaceutical companies.
Basically any entity that chases profit.
@@iffracem ~ Oh please
Nothing is more uneducated as believing a single country is exclusive to fraud and rip offs. Intelligent people focus on the issue not the scape goating
Thanks for making this bold awareness video to bring some light on evil big techs and Chinese counterfeit! keep up the good works!
That’s really awful how FB claimed there wasn’t enough evidence
Facebook siding with the Chinese government instead of Americans?
***shocked face***
@@Cautionary_Tale_Harris Esp hilarious considering how, no matter how much Zuck tries to simp for Xi, Xi doesn't let facebook to operate in China.
What I think it, sadly, comes down to is that you have to strike with a lawyer. Fb has to take those seriously. Well, as long as the case per se holds water on the strikers part.
One reason I don't like FB..
Who still uses Facebook anyway honestly...
I am the Hong Kong Chinese, I realized this video under the ADVChina Podcast video on 5/14/2021.
Not just this mouse trap, too many products around the world had suffered this. Mainland Chinese businessmen doesn't respect copyrights. Amazon and the social media giants should take this responsibility to detect this.
I apologise on behalf on Chinese, my nation businessmen lost moral.
No need to apologize. There are so many of these reds, it's impossible to stop them all...
🖖
How squeaky clean is the West?
You need not to apologise for someone else.
@@tomellis4750 I focused my message on Mainland China.
About how clean is the West, that is another topic.
Communists are thieves..... And Saboteurs at other times....... Some Western Multi-Billionaires love them tho.... Strange but True
If they have the patent for this trap, then why not sue facebook, amazon, twitter, and other websites promoting the stolen product? Those websites are making money from it as well, they should be held accountable. I know it's easier said than done, however it might be worth a shot.
amazon would be protected under safe harbor because they took measures but facebook probably isnt
Face book? Definitely, they eve promote unoriginal creators that stole from RUclips videos!
Sorry to hear what happened to your footage Shawn, and to the original designer and manufacturer 😠 .
Shawn, we should all report the fraudulent listings and push back on these companies to not support the thieves
Do you know which categories to select when reporting? I'm not seeing an option for counterfeit product
Good idea! Thank you!
Don't waste your time. I did exactly that here in the UK and Amazon refused to allow me to post an exposing review.
Amazon claims that there are too many "reports" form non-purchasers and ceased reporting of the counterfeit traps.
"China" and "ethical" can't be used in the same sentence. 🤣
Well, the same applies for the US...
@@germancarrasco2028 get out here,
@@germancarrasco2028 how by the way
@@longhai6458 Where to begin with?... Selling weapons and pushing wars around the world, pouring trillions in the military while denying Healthcare and Education, puting sanctions and accusing other countries of things that the US does... Having PACs that buy politicians by financing their campaings... Ethic is not a quality of the US...
@@cesarcesar1961 You're kidding right? It very common to see a product from some small company to be copied and sold by another company (unless you patent your idea, which would give you a little protection). I wouldn't be surprised if you where able to research the path from original to copy that it goes through some American (person/company) that sent it off to China to have it made at a lower cost and they (the American) is raking in a percentage of the sale!
I canceled my Facebook long time ago. The world will never do it.
only reason i still have my facebook account is because of different racing stuff and my Spotify account were linked to it lol
I saw this video and ordered the Rinne from Amazon. Thanks for supporting American made small business products.
Time to start crowd funding for lawyers to sue these companies!
And Facebook
Impossible in other countries
I am Chinese American and ashamed that my countrymen would be so greedy at the expense of others. I just purchased a 4 pack from Rinne. Thanks Shawn for speaking up!
Same here I’m ashamed as well! I did purchase the Chinese traps tho , but they should do better !
Walmart has done this since 1990s... Buying items from local craftsmen/women during craft shows. Sending those items "overseas" to be made in large production.
That's why Hobby Lobby is much better for craft materials. Most of their products are actually made in the USA.
I bought one of these traps and I think it works great! The inventor came up with a wonderful idea and he should get credit for everything he did.
This is why I stopped buying on Amazon or Facebook years ago. Support small business here in the US
And I support businesses in my homeland México
The only place they sell the trap is Amazon.
Kudos, I do the same in my country. 🇿🇦🇿🇦
But both Amazon and Facebook are in the U.S. Do you have an Iphone or Macbook by any chance?
@@erictremblay6867 my cellphone is made in India
I'm considering buying this just to help the real owner.
Just did this.
Probably hav a cheaper price from China.
@@jeanpierrelabonte2868 thats kinda part of the issue
@@jeanpierrelabonte2868 You can't be serious 🤦🏻♂️
@@whitelonewolf146 lets report him
This is how Chinese R and D works
Ctrl + C
Ctrl + V
Amazon removed your listing.
What a shady world...
Well Expressed, Shawn. Not ranting at all - telling truth!
Similar thing happened to "Aquachigger" a metal detecting website. Some guy in Saudi Arabia stole a couple of his videos and was making money off them. Chigg complained to RUclips and their response was they were considering terminating his channel for filing a false claim. Aquachigger has more then a million subscribers but the other guy has over 4 million. You know who was making the most money for RUclips. But after a few hundred thousand complaints RUclips changed their stance and took down the 2 videos in question and apologized. Time for us to raise some heck for you.
>Aquachigger
>Chigg-
UH OH!
I loveeeeee aquachigger
Big tech companies complaint managing suck
To think that this might be happening to hundreds of hard working Americans every week is outrageous! Good on you for saying something about it.
Rinne's Flip and Slide is only available for sale to the USA and Canada. Yes, I checked their site.
It's hard to be loyal when you can't buy the thing overseas.
I went and reported like 10 listings on Amazon... There are just too many. ugh.
If you don’t like them stealing mousetrap ideas, you’re gonna hate what they’re doing with our military tech.
They're not stealing that. The devilcrats are handing it over on a silver platter.
Hey a political reply to a comment! *grabs popcorn for reply wars as a centrist*
Get your popcorn, there is gonna be some political debate in a RUclips comment section!
It's dangerous to think of Chinese citizens and the Chinese Communist Party/ Chinese military (PLA) as a single unified "them". The CCP did not do a thing about IP within and outside of China which allows some Chinese company stealing designs from the US as well as other Chinese companies that actually invented new things/ideas. Anyway, Chinese citizens don't steal military tech. They are not interested in it. However, the CCP is very interested in stealing our military tech.
@@squidguy15 let’s set up a popcorn stand, I’ll go buy the popper
Like Luke Bryan says, "I believe most people are good." But damn, the ones that are bad really knock our species down a peg or two.
all people are "good" because good is an abstract concept. these are probably drop shippers, but assuming shawn is correct and this is from domestic chinese businesses are they really "bad" for offering a service for a lesser price to feed there familys? This is unfair, but the action itself is not "bad"
@@jimmothypakistan5223 if a person breaks into your home & steals all of your possessions then puts them in your spare car & steals that as well to get away in and then sells all of your stuff that they stole from you in order to feed there family would that be acceptable to you ? Would you be willing to take the loss or would you want compensation ASAP ?
@@jimmothypakistan5223 Ok Socrates, sure it's an abstract concept, but that which is considered good or bad by the overwhelming majority borders on fact rather than opinion.
@@Savage3OO6 anything considered universally "bad" is always unfair. Good is a relative concept and prosocial/antisocial are far better qualifiers of thr quality of a person rather then an excuse for people to make themselves feel better then othets
Not only did I just buy one thru your link, but they are on SALE right now! $15 off! Thank you!
I think in the future you should put a watermark on all footage showing new mouse trap designs. Should be placed right across the footage, so it cannot be cropped out. Your viewers will understand, and actually appreciate it :)
Amen
@Troy johnson that is what I meant. On all video clips showing off new trap designs and products in action. Him talking, nature and antique traps probably don't need it. Although there is an argument to be made to have all "steal worthy" footage watermarked
@@thorwaldjohanson2526 i think stickers should be a good non annoying watermark on this video
Put it on buckets and traps so it's not annyoing
Need to pass new law to confiscate all the proceeds from the counterfeit sellers from Amazon and eBay, plus penalties to the sellers and Amazon and eBay. Let's brainstorm of any other ways possible to stop the thieves.
Good idea. But corruption rules and I don't think it will happen!
If something like that got through congress the corrupt businesses would probably use it as a tool to file copyright claims against small businesses and get their profits/accounts frozen.
Adopt a "Trial of Possession" policy like that found in the Clans in the BattleTech franchise? No? Too violent and effective?
America has made China the biggest economy on earth with free trade. The answer is to regulate and punish the practices.
If China won't respect patents there should be sanctions
Ha, you mean the same people that made and upheld election laws? Hahaha. Face it, the usa is weak and treats its people like animals on a money farm. You’re all screwed. Everyone hates the usa, even Americans. You’ve been sold out in every way possible by everyone possible
I too saw these ads on Twitter last week. I recognised your footage being used as the ad and wondered if you partnered up with them. I'm glad you addressed this issue. Now I'll definitely know not to buy from these unethical businesses!
Facebook operate in the following manner:
If you pay to promote, you are immune to any rules.
If you didn't pay and it went viral, then you are violating Facebook profit code. You are banned until you pay to promote.