CandleJim

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There are already some who are suppling the color chips that they had, right down to the same shape and color, we have not seen the plastic molds hit the market yet, but they will. but the stands and clamps have, the metal molds have been around for a while by the largest metal mold manuf. in the nation.

It is most intresting to see who are picking up the mission to supply folks both out west as well in the east, to fill the void left by them.

Metal molds, as you say won't go away. Most come from Redding, CA.

They do not have to register a copyright - the item is assumed copyrighted when it is created. If you were making knock-offs of their molds for your own personal use, that is allowed under Fair Use, but you are doing this to sell and are in violation of the artist's copyright. Some items exist in public domain, such as the basic tart design that is literally everywhere; other items may be originals that they created. Before you get too far into this, you might want to see which of their molds are original creations and at least get permission or (god forbid!) offer to pay the artist for their design instead of usurping it.

I'm afraid that I don't have time to read through 11 pages, but doesn't Pourette say they're moving and will be back in business in 2 months? It's on their page. They have a mold I REALLY want that doesn't seem to be offered by anyone else.....Kelly

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.