Hello, this is the people in charge of 91yoyo.net.
The personal message was from July. That's true, by then Ben had promised that Avant Garde (will be abbreviated as AG) won't be for sale without Luo Yi Cheng (abbr. Luo)'s permission. However, in the recent several months, YoYoFactory keeps producing new colours and limited version, and cooperating with other companies. Luo has never informed about the large amount of production (for Ben told Luo just a limited number would be released), is that showing disrespect to the designer? As a person who's in the business that knows that, I have to put these personal messages in public, for I can't think of any better ways around.
Before this letter was shown in public, Luo was keeping bearing what had YoYoFactory Ben did about AG. In CYCC (China Yoyo Cooperation Championship) AG were given to contestants as prizes, what's the meaning behind that? Letting more yoers from China know Avant Garde was made by YoYoFactory? I think every adult can think of what's the inside meaning of this!
91yoyo.net still hasn't got much prestige in the world. We are a yoyo platform from that began 3 years ago, there are members of us over China. We can't change the world's opinion towards L4 and AG, but at least in China, we will use our ways to tell the truth to all players.
YoYoFactory has many controversies in the recent years, but those have become history - no matter the products or the players that quit before. Avant Garde is related to the reputation of Luo Yi Cheng, and ALL CHINESE YOYO PLAYERS. (China was called 'Country of Piracy', the yoyos were very often doubted to be fake by similar looking. Actually it is not correct. Nowadays many famous yoyo brands from USA, Japan do have yoyos designed by Chinese players and then published with slight moderation. None of these brands stand out and admit it's designed based on designs from a Chinese yoer/brand. Being modest is the nature of Chinese as a nation, so many responsibilities were not investigated. YoYoFactory, without Luo's permission, went to register the yoyo after seeing L4's design, this, is like a pirate.
As Chinese yoyo players, we have always respected YoYoFactory's contribution to the whole yo-yo community. This event has caused bad impact in China, many yoyo players have determined never buy YoYoFactory product anymore, and firmly reject YoYoFactory. We're terribly sorry about that.
All we want to do, is just to rehabilitate China YoYo community its innoncence and honour, at least to these yoyo players and companies with original design.
Yours sincerely
91yoyo management group
P.S. If the informations about Avant Garde pirating L4, get deleted by forums e.g. YoYoNation again, we will respect the moderater's choice, and not repost this on those forums. But the information will be constantly being renewed in biggest Chinese YoYo forum (which also has the most population), 91yoyo.net.