Can I buy an object... repackage it and sell it to be used for something else.... legally?
Such as buy a tire and sell it as a planter....
Buy a sewing needle and sell it as a splinter remover....
2007-11-23 21:10:07 · 6 answers · asked by PEACE 4 in Business & Finance ➔ Investing
Of course..!!!
It's called rebranding.
If someone is stupid enough to buy into it, fair play to you.
2007-11-23 21:12:14 · answer #1 · answered by Moorglademover 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
haha I don't know for sure. Good thinking tho. It might depend what you sell it as. I mean if you made the tire into somethin and called it art, you could sell it right? I know when I used to make amplifiers for a company we took the tubes and buffered off the stamp of the company that made them and stamped our name on it. I always wondered about that.
I believe the patents are usually on the very design as well as the purpose. If you modified it and/or added parts you could probably get around the patent and there would be nothing they could do about it.
2007-11-23 21:15:07 · answer #2 · answered by illunatic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your intent is not to defraud people, you can sell anything you own. For example, if you took a piece of rope, and sold it as a "solar clothes dryer" you could be prosecuted. You get the idea.
2007-11-23 21:21:00 · answer #3 · answered by roscoedeadbeat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you add value to the item by giving something extra as a bonus in the packaging.... why not? Successful marketers do that every single day.
2007-11-24 04:09:10 · answer #4 · answered by Alfred Chew 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't that the basis of DADA?
The artist took common every day things - like a toilet. He said it was "ART" - everyone believed it was art, LOL.
2007-11-23 21:13:41 · answer #5 · answered by Gatekeeper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-11-23 21:12:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋