Davison Invention Development (Pittsburgh)

Davison (PA) Sales tactics

Davison as with any company, the sales team were enthusiastic and very very friendly (as you would expect) but they sent me literature (opposite) and I considered the options. Part of the literature was a CONFIDENTIALITY sheet, contingency chart (which was never adhered too).

Everything seemed fine, and I decided to go forward. The products they claimed to have developed and sold to manufacturers seemed impressive. Note: In the two years I have been dealing with this company, NO OTHER SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN SHOWN.

The Davison sales team kept in contact and rang me back on the date when they said they would (as expected) Claiming to be "The Director of New Products" the salesman was over enthusiastic. I have since found out, that Davisons take on any idea, no matter how silly it might be. The reason for this is simply so they can get a Product Search fee of $685.00 for:

This so called $685.00 worth of Davison pre-inventegration research can be done yourself, easily on the internet.

AT THIS STAGE DAVISON RECOMEND ME TO HAVE THE IDEA DEVELOPED. THIS WOULD COST ME $9,000. THERE SERVICES THEY PROMISED WOULD NEVER HAPPEN. 2 YEARS LATER AND MY PRODUCT SAMPLE/PROTOTYPE HAS NEVER MATERIALISED.

Davisons - Product development with poor service

After paying my Davison development fee, as an inventor, you would expect to work closely with your developers to achieve your final goal. No not in this case, the "Director of new products" was very nasty in his dealings with me, making me feel like I should not be involved in the process.

Virtual Reality Presentation (opposite "A")

This 2 dimentional picture is made up of a horrible background,(PICTURE OF A RUNDOWN BUILDING) with my product shown on a horrible foreground, the packaging is dated looking (70's) and generaly not acceptable to show a corporation. The product itself are horrible black things, which does nothing to sell the idea/concept.

When complaining that this will never do, and wanting it re-doing properly, I was threatened with "we will pull the development, without refund if I did not sign the picture off" I even did a better picture myself out of frustration (see opposite "B") Because I knew a corporation would not take their virtual design seriously, I had another designed specially. (C)

While making many expensive calls to Davison, and writing letters of complain about the quality of this work, and the total lack of interaction by Davisons, I only received nasty phone calls telling me to leave the work to them, and for me to stay out of the equation. Asking for updates and to actually see what they had done in all the months this company had been working on this (simplistic 2 piece product) I got fobbed off time and time again.