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Special Hyena Award: Knipex Twinkey switch cabinet wrench

Center Original : Knipex-Werk C. Gustav Putsch, Wuppertal, Germany

Outside plagiarism: Various online retailers, mainly from the PR China (14 examples from 9,500+), sale via: Amazon.de/Amazon.fr/Amazon.com/USA, Alibaba.com; Taobao.com/China; 1688.com/China; banggood.com

Knipex has had9,500 illegal Twinkeyoffers deleted from online platforms in the last three years. What's special about the original: The ingenious, patent-protected solution, which uses a magnet to combine two multifunctional keys with a total of ten profiles in a very compact, star-shaped arrangement, but which can be easily separated for use. Various court rulings confirm the 'competitive character' of the original, i.e. imitators act unfairly and deceive buyers about the origin. The low prices of counterfeit products are reflected in cheap materials and poor workmanship, and the magnet often does not work or comes loose from its attachment.

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