Hey Crew
I’m not normally one to right off anyone or anyones product but I do feel the need to let you all know their is a snake in the grass.
Scheky a small accessories manufacturer here in Oz has had the balls to copy a design from the good crew at Poorboy USA and call it his own.
The pad in question at the moment is Poorboy’s Skyhook which has been readily available on the US market now for some years. I am unable to import it into Oz due to a patent that Scheky owner Perry Underwood has on the side arch design incorporated in the Skyhook… Fair enough I’ve let him have his little patent even though this idea is not his its been around for years and his patent doesn’t seem to be in affect anywhere else in the world other than here in Australia. So he’s gone and looked at the Poorboy USA website and decided not only to make a copy of our Skyhook pad but he is calling it “The Skyhook” as well and then in his advertising he has the nerve to claim that Scheky are the “Surf Innovators”.
If your as offended by this as I am please feel free to send letters of support to me leigh@poorboyusa.com or letters of disgust to perry@scheky.com
Cheer
Leigh Kelly
Poorboy Australia
Wow that sucks. But it seems like he’s a copier and you’re the innovator, I know you can come up with something else to get around him or his patent ideas. And hey as Daklaw said, patents reveal how they did it. Heh. Maybe even do creative marketing like calling your brand the ‘original skyhook’ or saying of only one skyhook per wave or how poseurs copy the real thing.
The best one is coming out with a ykehcs koohyks brand, that’ll bring a laugh or two in the US of A. It even is pronounced ‘kooks’ hehe. Yech!! Kooks! hehe
Seriously though if you can’t nail them legally, just innovate, do your own thing, and God will take care of things.
well leigh was the sales rep for scheky for a while before he took on the poorboy range… i know theres lots of sour grapes between them… even funds not allocated correctly. i think that if there is any bagging to be done its better left between you guys (leigh + perry) rather than taking it public and creating bad feelings among the public that will make you both look like squabling kids. ive dealt with you both a little and im not going to take sides in public. if you come in my store you will see which product i support… and which give the better service.
Hey Dave
This post wasn’t about trying to discredit anyones service or product in fact I’ll be first to tell you that Scheky still makes a quality product but when you claim to be the product innovators and clearly the idea is from some where else then I find that a little hard to take. Sure there is bad blood between us but this isn’t about that or I would have posted something about the whole situation months ago. I was hoping for opinions on the whole borrowing of ideas thing and not the personal issues of how Scheky chooses to do business…
And mate i’m not worried about the fact you stock Scheky and not Poorboy I still value your opinion…
Cheers
Leigh