CandleJim

In most cases what you are seeing is what is left from/supplied by Pourette. Eventually the well will go dry if some companies don't pick up the slack.Metal molds, as you say won't go away. Most come from Redding, CA.

This is all understood and investigated already. Simple shapes are not and can not be copyrighted (balls, pyramids, etc). Some of the molds are simple copies of objects in public domain. And some may be copyrighted and are under investigation.

What mold are you looking for?

First, yes this is my first post here. But, I've actually been around for quite a while. Pourette made a major mistake by taking away the wholesale discount and it hurt them in the long run. Local retailers (and we are one of them) use to order between 12 and 100 pieces of each mold at a time. When Pourette took away the discount I'm sure they saw their income drop. It boils down to do you sell 1 mold at $7.00 or 100 molds at $4.00. They expected to pick up the retail business and they didn't. The web does not generate the income they thought it does, and they failed to realize that most local retailers have a good size business going and most of their customers weren't even aware that Pourette existed. Many local retailers only have a web site as an addition to their free standing store. Pourette just made some poor business decisions and cut their own throat. Now with that said, we are looking into producing many of the products Pourette supplied. They have no patents or copyrights on any of the products they produced. We already have prototype samples being made of the mold stands and clamps. And we will be looking into the molds themselves next. Now Pourette has made another bad business decision. If they do re-open, they have opened the door for competition. That's a good thing for end users, but bad for Pourette. Once we have a solution for the molds I'll reveal who we are.