Ray-Ban Asks Rand Paul to Quit Selling Their Product

[C_Clayton_Jones]

A well-run, competent presidential campaign would have realized that rebranding would require permission from the product's owner to indeed rebrand; but Paul's is not a well-run, competent presidential campaign.

 

[Statistikhengst]

A well-run, competent presidential campaign would have realized that rebranding would require permission from the product's owner to indeed rebrand; but Paul's is not a well-run, competent presidential campaign.

That being said, considering the low-information voters he is reaching out to, I doubt this will hurt Paul in the primaries. It is more likely that it will make him look like a Libertarian firebrand who is socking it to anybody who says no to him --- but wait, he backed down, now didn't he...



Still, he has a 50 state organization and is busy separating himself from the wolf-pack.

Wait and see. I still think that Rand Paul has a better shot at the Koch-GOP nomination than most estimate.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

A well-run, competent presidential campaign would have realized that rebranding would require permission from the product's owner to indeed rebrand; but Paul's is not a well-run, competent presidential campaign.

That being said, considering the low-information voters he is reaching out to, I doubt this will hurt Paul in the primaries. It is more likely that it will make him look like a Libertarian firebrand who is socking it to anybody who says no to him --- but wait, he backed down, now didn't he...



Still, he has a 50 state organization and is busy separating himself from the wolf-pack.

Wait and see. I still think that Rand Paul has a better shot at the Koch-GOP nomination than most estimate.

Once Jeb!, Walker, and perhaps Christie are in the race, Paul will soon be out of the picture, along with Cruz.

 

[Statistikhengst]

A well-run, competent presidential campaign would have realized that rebranding would require permission from the product's owner to indeed rebrand; but Paul's is not a well-run, competent presidential campaign.

That being said, considering the low-information voters he is reaching out to, I doubt this will hurt Paul in the primaries. It is more likely that it will make him look like a Libertarian firebrand who is socking it to anybody who says no to him --- but wait, he backed down, now didn't he...



Still, he has a 50 state organization and is busy separating himself from the wolf-pack.

Wait and see. I still think that Rand Paul has a better shot at the Koch-GOP nomination than most estimate.

Once Jeb!, Walker, and perhaps Christie are in the race, Paul will soon be out of the picture, along with Cruz.

Purrrhaps...

 

[Ravi]

Vote for me because I'm cool seems to be his campaign. That is damn immature.

 

[Katzndogz]

Should a company be forced to sell a product to someone who's politics they disagree with?

Should a bakery be forced to sell a product to someone they disagree with?

 

[Stephanie]

ok then, won't every buy a pair of their glasses again

they want to be that frikken PETTY

I hope more people follow

and if this isn't true then they can thank you partisan hacks for spreading this around

 

[hipeter924]

 

[Stephanie]

You notice how the left is all for BIG BUSINESS squashing we the people now?

before all they did was WAIL on them for this or that blaa blaa

 

[hipeter924]

You notice how the left is all for BIG BUSINESS squashing we the people now?

before all they did was WAIL on them for this or that blaa blaa

If you haven't noticed already, corporations (especially in the finance sector) give political donations aka kickbacks to both parties, hence why many Democratic politicians claim they want to 'help hard working Americans' but in reality serve the interests of those who paid to put them into office.

 

[Ravi]

ok then, won't every buy a pair of their glasses again

they want to be that frikken PETTY

I hope more people follow

and if this isn't true then they can thank you partisan hacks for spreading this around

It isn't like you could afford them to begin with.

 

[Stephanie]

You notice how the left is all for BIG BUSINESS squashing we the people now?

before all they did was WAIL on them for this or that blaa blaa

If you haven't noticed already, corporations (especially in the finance sector) give political donations aka kickbacks to both parties, hence why many Democratic politicians claim they want to 'help hard working Americans' but in reality serve the interests of those who paid to put them into office.

Of course. BUT, the democrat sheep always blamed them for making too much money that they can pay 20 bucks an hours to a hamburger flipper. remember how they wail on BIG OIL, recently we had BIG FOOD for making people fat?

if this True I hope millions of boycotts them..Hit them where it hurts.. this is truly PETTY

 

[saintmichaeldefendthem]

I understand free market and the fact that once I buy a pair of sunglasses, I own them. Or does Hewlit Packard tell you you can't surf gay porn sites with their computer?

Sure you own them. But reselling them with a new brand label without consent of the original producer is illegal.

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I don't know that it is. I think you pulled that out of your ass.

 

[Ernie S.]

I understand free market and the fact that once I buy a pair of sunglasses, I own them. Or does Hewlit Packard tell you you can't surf gay porn sites with their computer?

Sure you own them. But reselling them with a new brand label without consent of the original producer is illegal.

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It's not a new brand label. It's another brand label, much like your city putting their logo on a police car.

 

[Ravi]

I just bought 50 pairs of ray bans. Now I can be an elitist Rand Paul supporter

 

[saintmichaeldefendthem]

I just bought 50 pairs of ray bans. Now I can be an elitist Rand Paul supporter

I've never understood the appeal of expensive sunglasses. Are they not made out of plastic too? Status symbols have always perplexed me, that people will shell out serious money to feel they're better than everyone else.

 

[Ravi]

I just bought 50 pairs of ray bans. Now I can be an elitist Rand Paul supporter

I've never understood the appeal of expensive sunglasses. Are they not made out of plastic too? Status symbols have always perplexed me, that people will shell out serious money to feel they're better than everyone else.

Ask Rand Paul. He obviously thinks it is a serious issue.

 

[Steinlight]

Should a company be forced to sell a product to someone who's politics they disagree with?

That's not the issue. This issue is of taking someone's product and putting your brand on their brand and then re-selling the product, which is in violation of the law, unless a contract to do this exists.

But the campaign didn’t have Ray-Ban’s consent, and the company didn’t like that.

“We learned that the Rand Paul campaign had been selling Ray-Ban sunglasses imprinted with the “Rand” logo without our consent,” Jane Lehman, head of corporate communications for Luxottica, that parent company of Ray-Ban, wrote in an email to The Hill.

“After a formal request from us, they promptly removed the product from their site and agreed to cease any further use of our trademarks,” she wrote.

Which part of the words "the law" and "free market" do you not understand?

Trademark law is the antithesis of a free market. It is by definition state imposed monopoly wherein only a certain individual or firm can produce a specific product.

You don't understand quite a bit about basic economics. You ought to stick to shilling for Hilary like the fucking tool you are. Leave concepts like trademark and copyright law for adults.

And you need to learn that we are a land of laws and that trademark laws protect the free market against piracy. But I wouldn't expect a fucking Nazi like you to understand this.

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Protect the free market by making it less free. Love shitlib cognitive dissonance lol.

 

[Ernie S.]

Should a company be forced to sell a product to someone who's politics they disagree with?

That's not the issue. This issue is of taking someone's product and putting your brand on their brand and then re-selling the product, which is in violation of the law, unless a contract to do this exists.

But the campaign didn’t have Ray-Ban’s consent, and the company didn’t like that.

“We learned that the Rand Paul campaign had been selling Ray-Ban sunglasses imprinted with the “Rand” logo without our consent,” Jane Lehman, head of corporate communications for Luxottica, that parent company of Ray-Ban, wrote in an email to The Hill.

“After a formal request from us, they promptly removed the product from their site and agreed to cease any further use of our trademarks,” she wrote.

Which part of the words "the law" and "free market" do you not understand?

Trademark law is the antithesis of a free market. It is by definition state imposed monopoly wherein only a certain individual or firm can produce a specific product.

You don't understand quite a bit about basic economics. You ought to stick to shilling for Hilary like the fucking tool you are. Leave concepts like trademark and copyright law for adults.

And you need to learn that we are a land of laws and that trademark laws protect the free market against piracy. But I wouldn't expect a fucking Nazi like you to understand this.

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Protect the free market by making it less free. Love shitlib cognitive dissonance lol.

Scatistikhengst doesn't do logic.

 

[Steinlight]

Should a company be forced to sell a product to someone who's politics they disagree with?

That's not the issue. This issue is of taking someone's product and putting your brand on their brand and then re-selling the product, which is in violation of the law, unless a contract to do this exists.

But the campaign didn’t have Ray-Ban’s consent, and the company didn’t like that.

“We learned that the Rand Paul campaign had been selling Ray-Ban sunglasses imprinted with the “Rand” logo without our consent,” Jane Lehman, head of corporate communications for Luxottica, that parent company of Ray-Ban, wrote in an email to The Hill.

“After a formal request from us, they promptly removed the product from their site and agreed to cease any further use of our trademarks,” she wrote.

Which part of the words "the law" and "free market" do you not understand?

Trademark law is the antithesis of a free market. It is by definition state imposed monopoly wherein only a certain individual or firm can produce a specific product.

You don't understand quite a bit about basic economics. You ought to stick to shilling for Hilary like the fucking tool you are. Leave concepts like trademark and copyright law for adults.

And you need to learn that we are a land of laws and that trademark laws protect the free market against piracy. But I wouldn't expect a fucking Nazi like you to understand this.

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Protect the free market by making it less free. Love shitlib cognitive dissonance lol.

Scatistikhengst doesn't do logic.

That is why he supports the halfwit hag in a pantsuit for president.