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I don't understand why this article was submitted under the current title ("The Orange Screw has fallen prey to Amazon bait-and-switch product pirates"). Surely

I don't understand why this article was submitted under the current title ("The Orange Screw has fallen prey to Amazon bait-and-switch product pirates"). Surely the actual company post about exactly this [0] as linked in the article would have been a more appropriate basis for discussing this? The point of this article is about one instance of product packaging also having a secondary function (after a roundabout way of describing applications). Why choose the parenthetical in the sub-heading as the main title for HN? [0]: https://www.orangescrew.com/blogs/news/scam-alert-this-is-not-and-orange-screw https://www.orangescrew.com/blogs/news/scam-alert-this-is-no...

zadokshi 6y ago
(Aside from promoting someone’s blog?) I guess the main difference is do we want the story told from a personal/emotional narrative perspective or do we want the story told in a corporate Press release form. Not sure??
Lio 6y ago
Strangely enough when I first saw the Orange Screw site I didn't think it was real because the only product measurements given are in old style imperial units. Maybe real but not something I'd trust to order from. It seemed suspicious to me that a site claiming to sell world wide with foreign currencies accepted wouldn't show metric units for their product. I can't put my finger on why exactly but it just looked weird.
- scoopertrooper 6y ago
  Not defending US Customary Units, but is it unreasonable for a product to use the dominant form of measurement of the country in which it is manufactured and primarily marketed towards? https://www.orangescrew.com/pages/where-to-buy https://www.orangescrew.com/pages/where-to-buy
  - Lio 6y ago
    Ah maybe that's it. If they were geared up for a single market with it's own units that would be fine but this site is also selling to global consumers too. You can select language and local currency. It's like someone lifted the stuff from the US domestic website for a brand and started using it to sell worldwide without the brand knowing. Seeing something priced in my currency but measured in Smoots. :) It just looks... funny.
  - marcosdumay 6y ago
    > primarily marketed towards That's the main part. Where it's manufactured does not matter, what matters is that by using US measurement unities, they are making an implicit statement that it's a US-only product. That right near an explicit statement that it's not US-only is somewhat confusing.

zadokshi 6y ago

(Aside from promoting someone’s blog?) I guess the main difference is do we want the story told from a personal/emotional narrative perspective or do we want the story told in a corporate Press release form. Not sure??

Lio 6y ago

Strangely enough when I first saw the Orange Screw site I didn't think it was real because the only product measurements given are in old style imperial units. Maybe real but not something I'd trust to order from. It seemed suspicious to me that a site claiming to sell world wide with foreign currencies accepted wouldn't show metric units for their product. I can't put my finger on why exactly but it just looked weird.

scoopertrooper 6y ago
Not defending US Customary Units, but is it unreasonable for a product to use the dominant form of measurement of the country in which it is manufactured and primarily marketed towards? https://www.orangescrew.com/pages/where-to-buy https://www.orangescrew.com/pages/where-to-buy
- Lio 6y ago
  Ah maybe that's it. If they were geared up for a single market with it's own units that would be fine but this site is also selling to global consumers too. You can select language and local currency. It's like someone lifted the stuff from the US domestic website for a brand and started using it to sell worldwide without the brand knowing. Seeing something priced in my currency but measured in Smoots. :) It just looks... funny.
- marcosdumay 6y ago
  > primarily marketed towards That's the main part. Where it's manufactured does not matter, what matters is that by using US measurement unities, they are making an implicit statement that it's a US-only product. That right near an explicit statement that it's not US-only is somewhat confusing.