na icmag. je zdaj tudi en intervju z Simonom (breeder od serious)
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"anfblatt: What can you tell us about the names “Ole 47” and “OKE 47”?
Simon: Ah man, that’s a story I really wanted to avoid here with out mentioning names. But if your going to ask I guess I have to give you a clear answer. It was a dissapointment for me, when sensi seeds started production on the AK-47 and Bubblegum. And not even under there own name-but a “cover” name- “WHITE LABEL”. Ben Dronkers promissed me that the strain names would be changed, since I have never used any names from sensi seeds. White label then changed the names AK-47 was now “oke-47” and Bubblegum was now “Doublegum” oh well. The white label seeds at that time were only sold out of sensi´s own store and I didn´t feel like fighting about the subject anymore. Then, a couple of years later, al of a sudden “Black Label” was born a new branch off the High Quality seeds. Black label specialized on selling seeds with a popular name and a pretty package. I immediately had problems with these guys, because black label were buying there seeds from white label and then sold them under there own label. I was not happy with this, not only that, now these white label seeds were being pushed with big media coverage, it was going to far. Henk from Dutch Passion-he was also involved with a few strain names- and I had a talk with Ben Dronkers(sensi seeds). But Ben was not prepared to change the names, black label was however ready to change the names around enough till I was satisfied so “ole-47” it was. It´s important to me that people who heard about AK-47 don´t get confused and buy the copy Ole-47. I always try and make good on a bad situation, it´s important that people do not loose there trust in Serious Seeds.
Hanfblatt: Have all the cheap-seed banks and strain-fakes hurt your bussiness, or has this compition not affected your sales?
Simon: Well you can´t really put a number on how many people went out and bought copys from other seed banks who really wanted Serious seeds.Last year Nirvana,without asking, used the name AK-47 for cheap-seeds. On there web site they simply copy and paste the entire description from the Serious seeds web site. Even all the prizes and cups that were won by us.everything word for word.That did infact hurt our sales as we also had a smale production hole to fill. When I wrote about the situation on my web site, the Nirvana people conntacted me and asked me to remove the info from my web site, crazy world? Nirvana has recently changed the name." ......
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=10667Nirvana pa dela itak samo ponaredke.