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Message: [QUOTE="Layson, post: 1240185, member: 298"] Here is the difference. You go to OUO's website and everything on there is pretty much unique and their own idea and in some cases even patented. You go to the other website and 95% of the stuff on there is “similar” to something else out there on the market. Whatever you want....dynatrac...icon....fabtech....attitude performance...kelderman... You could call them and I bet you could get something built that looked like anything out there in the suspension world since it is a steel fabrication shop. Call up OUO and tell them that you want something that looks like a Rize Kit or a Kelderman kit and find out how they respond to that? See if OUO sells you their own transfer case clocking ring or Attitude Performances clocking ring since Attitude is the one that originally came up with it. Or Dynatrac Balljoints or Wheel-bearings, cause I bet if they wanted too, they could easily take them apart like everyone else and build their own and make a few bucks on it. But that isn’t the company that they are. It is like some of the sponsors/big diesel shops on this site. They spend the money and effort to come up with some great idea for our trucks. They trouble shoot, test it, come up with a kit, and price it accordingly so they can continue to survive as a business. Then a company like Sinister takes it and makes a ****ty copy of it. They don't necessarily know exactly what the kit does but they know people will buy it. Then people that didn't want to pay for the original kits now are buying the cheaper version. They claim it is the same product that you get from the others. When in fact it isn't. The details are not in this kit, not all the proper parts, it may not come with instructions, or it may not be packaged very well, and overall it may not even function the same. But you saved a few bucks... and really you may not expect it to be perfect and it also may do exactly what you want it to do. Then you add the Forum aspect on this entire deal. Say Sinister ends up being a sponsor and then gives some of the forum owners/moderators all free or heavily discounted product for their forum fee. So people see that the moderators and owners are putting these parts on their trucks. The members trust that it is a good part since we all are "friends" on here, and buy it. Time goes by and new people and nobody knows the history or frankly probably don’t care either, now are buying and supporting the product and thinking they are getting the same thing for a lot less. Knowing what I know now and watching the diesel industry grow over the last 10-15 years. There are some really cool, smart, and fun people out there that do some really cool stuff in this industry. These people put hundreds/thousands of hours into a really cool product and have a huge sense of pride and ownership of their product. Then it gets copied and its ok…..and you hear the same thing…. it is a little different…it isn’t the exact same…there is only so many ways to do it…LOL… They are all the ones that run the product and give feedback by telling everyone that you are getting the same thing but it is cheaper. It is no different than going to SEMA and seeing the coilovers/shocks that are pretty blue that look exactly like King shocks and a bunch of Asian people sleeping in the booth. You can wake them up and talk to them about their product and they don’t even understand what they make. But they can make it though and people will buy it because it is pretty blue and it is a 1/3rd the price. [/QUOTE]