XC Carbon Fiber EDC Wallet Discussions | Drop

Jun 22, 2020

Cheap knockoff of a Ridge wallet, kind of surprised it isn't a copyright infringement and taken of the market. Maybe drop is gonna turn into a bootleg marketplace.

Jun 22, 2020

Jul 31, 2020

SDanteridge is overpriced knockoff of HuMn wallet, get your facts straight here :)

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Jul 31, 2020

jweirRidge was out abit the same time as HuMn except Ridge has a better design, HuMn can't be a knockoff because it's just not anywhere near the wallet Ridge is. HuMn is more like 2 playing cards and a rubber band than a wallet.

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Jul 31, 2020

SDanteWrong, HuMn was kickstarted significantly before ridge was a thing and is a clear inspiration for it.

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Jul 31, 2020

jweirThey both kickstarted during 2013 and were being worked on in the years leading up to that. I owned a Ridge in April of 2013, HuMn didn't ship till after July. Whichever way you look at it, HuMn is still an inferior product. Ridge was a thing in 2012, which is before the HuMn campaign. I see nothing significant about the time between the two campaigns, they were very close, Ridge was slightly quicker to create, develop and market the product but not by more that a few months.

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Jul 31, 2020

SDanteridge didn't even start their original campaign til January 22 2013, you have them flip flopped, the last update for HuMn was in 2013, but the backers had them in 2012 and the campaign started February 23, nearly a full year before... Any more misinformation you'd like to try to peddle off?

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Jul 31, 2020

jweirI don't think you understand what flip flop means, but anyway. They launched less than a year apart, like I said. The HuMn is vastly inferior, despite the prices being almost the same, like I said. The HuMn mini ran in 2013, which was basically the same product, so that's why I didn't notice that the earlier version was from 2012. But, like I say, both original and mini are garbage, and priced at the same level as better versions. So, I did get one thing wrong, but stop harping on about the HuMn, it's a piece of crap that needed to be improved on in the first place.

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Jul 31, 2020

SDanteThe HuMn mini ran in 2012 as well and backers had them in hand in December, so you're saying that despite having the time to create a revision of their wallet and have them in hand before the ridge even launched its campaign, it's not ripping off HuMn... Logic isn't your strong suit, and yes I know what "flip flopped" means, it means a one to one direct swap, like John Kerry did during his presidential campaign when he couldn't make up his mind... Your blind loyalty to ridge and complete ignorance of their copying is beyond my ability to put into words, ridge might have improved the design in your book, but it's MUCH thicker than HuMn, and has so much trouble losing screws that they have to include a screwdriver and have replacement sets of screws (at cost) ready to ship you, so "improvement" lies in the eye of the beholder.

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Jul 31, 2020

jweirYea, the original Ridge had rivets, not screws. Screws were added later as a way to replace the elastic. Screws, driver and elastic are all very cheap. And no, flip flop means you say you'll do one thing then change your mind and do another, it's nothing to do with a "direct swap", lol. You flip, then flop, it's a reaaaaaally old saying. The elastic keeps falling off the HuMn because it only loops on and the aluminium is only thin enough for light RFID protection. It is hardly what you would call robust either. Ridge adds about 2 or 3 mm (MUCH thicker) and the option to have two types of money clip. Ridge is mainly thicker because the edges are beveled and the plates are made of two parts to prevent card damage and increase durability. Screws rarely fall out and can be bought at any hardware store for less than a cent anyway. These are all things HuMn lacks. It's not just 2 pieces of flat metal and an elastic band like HuMn is. It's also anodized (or heat treated on some) rather than just powder coated, so the finish is better without costing more. Both wallets have a more expensive carbon fibre version, Ridge has two versions. Ridge had several titanium options too. You seem blind to the fact that If you change something by at least 10% then it's a new thing, not a copy according to patent law. America has conned the world's people out of billions with that excuse so I don't see why it doesn't apply here. Ridge copied aspects but it's not the same by any realistic standard. HuMn is badly designed, constructed and marketed. It's a dud. I get it, you're in love with the HuMn, but it's still an ugly little turd. You don't even know what flip flop means? Lol

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Jul 31, 2020

SDanteYour story on the history of ridge is continually changing, aka flip flopping (definition 2b from Miriam-Webster: a sudden reversal (as of policy or strategy), so now who doesn't know the definition of words?), and by your own definition, the change in how the money clip is attached with the XC is enough to differentiate it and call it a new product as that's at least 10% of it. So I've now invalidated your original post, and shown your lack of knowledge of the English language, I think I'm done here. I don't care about the design elements of the two, as your whole point about knock-offs and bootlegs is now proven moot by your own argument. I know you'll reply as you seem to be insistent on having the last word and being right, but I'll neither be returning to or reading it as a lot of this is lost on you. I hope you are well paid by ridge as you're obviously well versed in their product and design elements, and you're probably among the many they pay off to advertise for them which is the whole reason they cost so much in the first place. Adios cowboy!

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