Originally Posted by andrewluke

with ebay stems, you would be surprised how often the ebay model is identical to some sort of industry model. Many times, a company that owns the design in the U.S. will have China do the work. The factory will then produce extras using the same molds and materials but not label them and then sell them online. They can do this because there is pretty much no entity to enforce international "law" when it comes to contracts.