I bought a cat exercise wheel off kickstarter. There were a lot of problems shipping the product, but eventually they shipped. The fascinating part is explana

I bought a cat exercise wheel off kickstarter. There were a lot of problems shipping the product, but eventually they shipped. The fascinating part is explanations given by the company. They said they paid 50K+ for a master injection mold which was tested extensively and shipped over seas. The parts that were shipped back didn't quite have the tolerances they were expecting and the wheels didn't fit together very well. It turns out the supplier they were working with in China cloned their product and were selling similar cat exercise wheels in China. A second mold was made and used to ship parts back to the US, and that mold was not made to the same quality as the first. At least, that's their story.