Seems a few things need clarifying here and some interesting comments made.
I am the Australian and New Zealand distributor for RSRRO products and Ke Nalu paddles in Australia.
A quick bit of online research will show you the European RailsaverPRO was developed back in 2010 in Spain…..where it is still manufactured. I’ve got no idea when the Puka Patch product came into existence….more on that in a minute…..and it’s probably irrelevant anyway.
I was introduced to RSPRO by a mate that had purchased a roll of rail tape from the European online store and paid a horrendous amount of money to have it shipped to Australia. Very soon after I was approached by RailsaverPRO in Europe to see if I was interested in distributing their products. This was late last year and at the time the product was called RailsaverPRO. I was interested because it was such a superior product to the clear tape I’d seen other people using.
Before deciding to take it on I did a substantial amount of online research into all things RailsaverPRO and the competition. I don’t recall seeing a single thing in relation to the Puka Patch product.
The domain name
www.railsaverpro.com.au was available as was the business name with ASIC.....so in my view everything was good to go and I secured the domain name and registered the business name ‘RailsaverPRO Australia’ so that I could legitimately do business in Australia.
To my knowledge the European RailsaverPRO was developed without any knowledge of the existence of the Puka Patch product of the same name……assuming it was even in existence in 2010?
I was informed soon after committing to the distribution of RailsaverPRO that all products were being rebranded for 2015 as RSPRO. The explanation provided for this was that it was shorter and simpler.....I didn't enquire further as it sounded good to me.
There was never any intention to cut the grass of the Puka Patch product as I didn’t even know it existed until this Seabreeze thread.
I though Puka Patch was the ding patches…..I’ve used them, they’re great for a temporary patch up job.
So now everyone can relax……you can choose from the European RSPRO or Puka Patch Rail saver pro…..the choice is yours.
There’s no shortage of crew on this forum that are happy to tell everyone what they reckon is the best rail protection
For the record…..the ION rail tape is manufactured by RSPRO and is exactly the same except for the graphics.
