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Looks like the equity firm that bought the e-retailer is taking a common descriptive to an extreme. Very interesting article https://coloradosun.com/2019/1...s-boycotts-backlash/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Live today as if it may be your last and learn today as if you will live forever | ||
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Thanks for posting that. I have used and like backcountry.com, but I will now no longer do business with them after reading that article. Hey, I have an old screen name and email from my AOL days that uses the term backcountry in it that I first created in 1998. Or maybe it was '99. Anyway, maybe I should sue backcountry.com... ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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I hope it blows up in their faces. And I hope a slew of companies rebrand to something like “Bakcountry”- dropping one c from the name would escape the silly patent infringement issue and piss them off to no end. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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Alea iacta est |
What dickbags. Won’t support a business that bullies other businesses for using a common terminology. The “lol” thread | |||
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Serenity now! |
Backcountry sure stepped in it, and they know it. Backcountry.com CEO apologizes for trademark lawsuits against other companies using ‘backcountry’ https://www.ksl.com/article/46...es-using-backcountry
Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice. ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ | |||
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They stepped on their own dick ....and now paying for it. They're one of the largest e-tailers in the technical outdoor industry and these lawsuits have pissed off the very people that support them. This may open the door and usher in a new era, outside of Amazon, backcountry.com has been the big online dog in this space. CEO is trying to cushion the blow but, it's too late, he comes across as a corporate ass...get in bed with a PE, things change. https://www.snewsnet.com/gear/...ver-trademark-blowup | |||
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some years ago, Monster Cable was known for doing the same thing with the name "Monster"/ I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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Years ago I bought lots of gear from Backcountry along with Steep & Cheap (owned by BC) because much of the gear works great for motorcycling. Around 2016 I noticed that good deals were much harder to come by and eventually lost interest. I didn't realize they had been sold in 2015, this article shed some light on the change in their practices. I just deleted their links from my browser. If they're going to be flaming assholes and let the shysters run things like Monster Cable did I won't buy anything from them. My last purchase from S&C was in 2016, after reading this article it was definitely my final purchase. I don't reward jackasses with money and there's nothing I need to buy from companies like Backcountry or Monster. Thanks for posting the article, it was quite interesting to me. "Every time you think you weaken the nation" Moe Howard | |||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
 Uhhh, No....When your attorneys start sending 'Cease-and Desist' letters and filing a slew of 'Trademark Infringement' lawsuits, that's EXACTLY what you're doing! ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 47....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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Screw Backcountry.com. The only reason they are backing down now is the reaction people from the outdoor world are showing. I have a bunch of outdoor gear and while I don't get to spend as much time out there really using it I do enough. I have many choices for gear. REI pissed me off a few years ago when they tried their antigun stance. While Backcountry wasn't a place I shopped much I will make sure they get nothing from here on out. _____________________________________ Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. Jack Kerouac | |||
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More 26 year old attorneys with no common sense that attempt to ruin everything. ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | |||
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For us bicyclists Backcountry.com also owns Competitivecyclist.com I don't do business with either. __________________________ More blessed than I deserve. http://davesphotography7055.zenfolio.com/f238091154 | |||
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| Shit don't mean shit |
They gonna force them to take down these signs as well? I don't know who maintains these signs, this one is on Berthoud Pass.  | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
I’m still not sure if Backcountry.com caved, or not. They put a lot of small business owners through Hell and now they’re saying they’re sorry and will stop the harassment—or will they? _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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They stopped ONE lawsuit, yet, in it's wake there's numerous C&D letters that have been sent out, and many companies over the years have had to change their names, while paying the bills to their legal representatives. One of the shittier short-comings to our legal system. Backcountry hasn't done shit to rectify the situation other than a statement that 'they didn't know'. They went too far and bullied around a bunch of small business owners. People have a right to spend their money wherever they want, looks like BC went and made up a lot of people's minds. | |||
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I buy some gear every year, like Audioholic said, the good deals stopped a while back and as a result I use other vendors. Now Backcountry is completely out of the picture. | |||
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| Eschew Obfuscation |
Keep in mind that these lawyers and their aggressive tactics are well known. That’s why Backcountry hired them and not some other firm. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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Still finding my way |
They may as well shut their FB page down and start over. It's a roast.  | |||
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Specialized bicycles got hammered for something similar a few years ago. They blamed it on an overzealous outside legal firm they hired, but at the end of the day, management is 100 percent responsible for allowing shit like this to happen. The statement from Backcountry basically amounts to saying, "Oh shit, we got caught for being assholes." | |||
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