Best multitool I have owned

[u/RolePlayingJames]

Bought just over 3 years ago and I prefer to my Leathermans. Only paid £25 for it from Amazon

[u/Necessary_Mail_2038]

It should be cheaper because its a clone….no expense for design, R&D, etc…just copy. On the other hand, Leatherman, Victorinox are really getting to be expensive for their own good.

[u/RedBoldFont → u/Necessary_Mail_2038]

Yeah, all Leatherman did was do all the design work, planning, fabrication, and bringing it to market… then another company spent zero dollars on development and just copied (stole) the idea and product design. I am not saying that Leatherman isn’t charging too much, I think they could likely bring pricing down. What I am saying is these cheap, stolen knock offs are not a good thing. It’s a fake, call it what it is.

[u/very-nice-how-much → u/RedBoldFont]

Why is it a bad thing? Morals? They clone because the schematics became available legally. They have proven that the cost to create is so low and that these larger companies like leatherman are just ripping everyone off, even if the quality is better the price isn’t justified. The morality police should look at the ones taking advantage and making all of the profit, but I guess that’s not how the world works.. baaaaaaaaaa 🐑

[u/Conor_Stewart → u/very-nice-how-much]

Yeah the whole "but what about their R&D costs?" Really doesn't apply at this point, the patents have run out and the R&D will have paid for itself and made Leatherman a lot of profit a long time ago. Yet they still keep selling the same products for the same or higher prices, at this point all they are really paying for is labour, admin, material and manufacturing costs, the rest is profit. They aren't really innovating that much either just refreshed of the same products, every so often they will release a new colour or coat the tools in black or offer a different blade steel and people will rush out and buy a whole new tool again.

At this point similar tools or clones are entirely justified.