IMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF CATTERY

Meowching Our Meow-velous Ideas

YES IT’S TRUE: Copycats are meowching away. We don’t know why they do it. Maybe because they have less brain-cells. Joking aside, imitation isn’t the sincerest form of cat/flattery. It’s just plain wrong. Real cat-lovers wouldn’t do that to real cat-loving people. Just ask our cat Yoda, she can smell a nasty rat a mile away. As a cat of few words, she says MEOW OFF COPYCATS! HISS…

ONE IDEA – NINE LIVES LATER

How To Report A Cat-Replicator

TO REPORT A COPYCAT: send an email to copycat@ripplerug.com

RECEIVE A RIPPLE RUG: If you are the first to report a fake-ad (that we’ve not already seen), you’ll receive a free Ripple Rug.

WARN FRIENDS & FAMILY: Please remember to warn your friends and family, so that they don’t get taken for a ride. The nasty, unscrupulous fakers that don’t care about the consequences of their actions, or whom they might hurt.

WELCOME TO THE COPYCAT WALL OF SHAME

Clone Wars: Special Cat Edition

COPYCATS USE OUR MARKETING STUFF: We’ve cobbled together screen-grabs of Instagram ads, Facebook ads, Amazon and dodgy websites created by evil rats. Would you believe that these copycats have been using our Ripple Rug videos, photos, marketing as well as real pet-parents’ videos, photos and reviews! Meow…hiss… Yes the bad guys are using your pictures and videos of your sweet fur-baby to make themselves a boat-load of money. The bad guys are using your reviews about the Ripple Rug to make themselves richer. WHAT? It’s not fair.

MANUFACTURED CHEAPLY OVERSEAS: The copycats manufacture cheaply-made imitations overseas, using cheap labor and inferior materials. Bad materials may be dangerous to your fur-baby. In several instances, nasty rats took payment and credit card details from unsuspecting buyers, without ever shipping a product.

REPORT COPYCATS: If you do see fake ads on Facebook, Instagram or any other Online Advertising please report it to us. We appreciate your help. Thank you for enabling us to protect our American Invention from Copycats.

FRED & NATASHA RUCKEL’S STORY

As Stolen On TV

IT’S NOT OUT FIRST RODEO: Back in 2015 our Ripple Rug was copied by copycats. We were horrified to learn that some unscrupulous infringers decided to try and make a knock-off of our beloved Ripple Rug – under a different name. They even used our actual Ripple Rug in their own commercial to sell a version of their knock-off.

COPYCATS OFTEN FOLLOW A PATTERN: They run commercials, create a website, spread messages via social media etc.

CLICK HERE TO READ OUR STORY

COPY FIRST – THINK ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES LATER

The Great Copycat Caper

COPYCATS USE OUR PICTURES OR VIDEOS: You may often spot fakers using copyrighted materials, because they blur or Photoshop out the Ripple Rug logos/labels. Images are often squeezed or stretched to hide existing graphics.

COPYCATS USE YOUR PICTURES OR VIDEOS: The more cunning copycats use actual pet-parents videos. Editing shots that show the Ripple Rug woven label, so that you don’t know that it’s a Ripple Rug.

COPYCATS CREATE DERIVATIVE WORKS: Legal speak for similar photos and graphics that at first glance might be the original Ripple Rug ones!

UNSUSPECTING BUYERS…get confused because they see the real Ripple Rug product featured. However, many people don’t realize that the counterfeiters are using our Ripple Rug copyrighted/trademarked/patented property. In order to sell cheaply made products that: don’t last long, fall apart, or don’t work as it should and in many instances may be dangerous for your fur-baby. Sadly, we’ve also learned that sometimes these nasty rats just collect your money and credit card details and don’t send you anything, nada, zilch, zip, nil, nought, diddly-squat…you get the picture.

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YOU CAN’T SPELL COPYCAT WITHOUT THE WORD CAT IN IT!

Oh yes – it is absolutely crazy isn’t it?

TAKE DOWNS: We spend time everyday trying to take down copy-cat versions. They pop-up like mushrooms! On a separate note, we have nothing against mushrooms 😉

IT’S EASY TO BE TAKEN IN BY TRICKSTERS: …because they have the audacity to use the words “SnugglyCat’s Ripple Rug”, our pictures, our videos and our marketing. In some cases they make-up new names to pretend that they have created their own novel ‘Ripple Rug’. Not so!

IT BREAKS OUR HEART: Bad boys (and girls), use imagery/video of both our cats Yoda and Spock, without a care in the world. Most of all, it breaks our heart that they would take advantage of pet parents without any guilt or concern for the consequences of their actions.

THE COPYCATS SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES: We wonder what their mother would think? OR if they go home and proudly tell their kids at the dinner table about the latest and greatest product they peddle.

IS IT GENUINE?: If you see a listing, anywhere in the world, on any platform or social media ad, and are in doubt if it’s genuine…contact us, we’ll let you know if it’s real. (If it’s fishy somehow i.e. there’s no transparency, no ‘about us’, or you don’t know you runs the site or page, it’s probably an imposter). 

WHO DOES THAT?: It may be small company you’ve never heard of, or, it may even be a relatively well-known multi-national pet-corporation that copy our Ripple Rug, (because let’s face it, they don’t have any good ideas of their own).

GALLERY: We’ll keeping adding more screen-grabs to our gallery as the days go by, sharing with you the nasty cheaply-made products out there.

JUST TO NOTE: Check the country of manufacture. You’ll find that copycat versions are made ‘overseas’, i.e. not in the USA.

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