Davison Inventions (www.InventionConcept.com) is a company that claims to take people’s ideas of new inventions, and turn them into reality. Davison says that it will take your idea through all the steps necessary to get your invention onto the market, from research and development to licensing to getting it onto the shelves.
Davison’s website claims that you have the ability to submit your idea to them knowing that you have full confidentiality and protection. Once your idea is submitted, you will receive a one on one consultation about the viability of your idea, and whether or not you should begin the process to take your idea further.
Davison claims to have a variety of agreements available for potential clients. Some services they offer will require you to pay one time, up front fees, while others will require you to commit to an agreement where Davison receives a percentage of royalties from your invention.
From Dream to Reality
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” From the time that man created fire, there has been an innate desire to come up with better ways of doing things. If you take a minute to look around you, at the things we take for granted every day, you’ll see the evidence of people’s invention dreams that came to life.
But, unlike the picture painted in Hollywood films, most of these inventions weren’t created in someone’s basement and then magically appeared on the market. Inventions must go through an intense process of research and development – is it truly an original invention? Is there someone else out there with a comparable idea or existing product? Is this invention already in the works?
At times an idea must be patented, which can be an expensive and complicated process. After that, an invention must often be licensed to another company or corporation to produce and distribute, because individuals usually lack the money necessary to fund the actual supply of product needed for the market.
Davison Inventions claims to help you through this long, arduous process, and to get your invention on the shelves of major retailers like Target, WalMart, Home Depot, and others.
Davison Inventions Success Stories?
Well, the truth is that when you research Davison Inventions, you are going to hear much more about heartbreak and failure than you will about success stories. In fact, Davison was ordered to pay $26 million in restitution to former clients after they were sued by the Federal Trade Commission and lost.
The lawsuit determined that clients of Davison would often pay upwards of $10,000 toward costs and services, and that less than 1% of their clients ever saw a return higher than what they invested with Davison.
In addition, they were told to stop promoting themselves as being linked to major retailers. However, if you look at their current website it seems fairly obvious that they are walking a fine line in adhering to this court order.
Their landing page is covered in logos from major retailers, with information offering that inventions processed through Davison are sold at all of these stores. While there is no official statement saying they have a relationship with these companies, the implication is still there.
Finally, the lawsuit ordered that Davison refrain from acting as though their services are selective, since they were found to take anyone’s idea through the research and development process as long as they paid the fees. This is a bad sign for those looking to process an invention, because it means that you can’t trust Davison’s evaluation of your invention’s potential. If they are simply willing to take everyone’s money who comes to them, it’s easy to see how 99+% of their customers never saw a profit from their dealings with Davison.
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I have over 22 inventions I have brought to market, from automobile accessories to consumer electronics. The best advice I can give is find someone local who can make your prototype for you, and have them sign a non disclosure agreement. After you have your working prototype use the internet to find manufactures that sell similar products. Contact them and try and get a meeting to show your product. If you get a company interested in your invention be humble and don't ask for some crazy amount of $$$ you won't get it. On my first 2 inventions I only got 12% of the profit. Not bad for not doing anything but coming up with the ideas.
Most company's won't use your invention because it was not invented in-house. If you have a good invention don't be a greedy person or you will never see a dime.Yes it would be great to have one idea and it makes you rich, but the problem lies that you need other people to make it happen. Who's not happy with 12% of a million dollars a year? That's 120K a year! Do your homework the internet is a great tool. You can do your own patent look-ups for free, also google your idea to see if there is already a similar product on the market.
I hope this helps, feel free to post any questions you might have and I will be glad to help if I can. Sorry to read about so many people getting scammed...
Roman
PS IF they start telling you that they are really busy and can not call you back then that is a red light for me.
then 4 months went by i couldnt come up w money for them they didnt do a thing ,a lady called and said
"so Maria i take it your not sereous about your invention,".
I said "yes i am but i cant come up with money bla bla bla, i said how much she said its 850 or somwhere around that,
no jerks!!
actually I am going to send them money tomorrow would you please inform me what happen to u and what I have to do because I am on low budget and this money is all my family have!So tell me what happen to you thanks a lot
M
I'm glad I decided to get on here and read all of these stories....I am currently getting the phone calls and the fast talking and all that. I haven't started to send any money because I was afraid this company was a scam....Out of all the comments on here I have found one good comment and it wasn't even that good of one. Please can people send me their stories and tell me if I should start ignoring their calls and spamming their emails. [email protected] is my email and I would love some stories from the public. When I speak with the company on the phone it sounds like it's the real deal and that I will soon have my invention out there...But with all these negative remarks and seeing the same email they sent me posted by someone else I'm not so sure now. Thank you for your time and help.
-Confused
Davison probably can't be viewed as a scam by the simple fact that they have legally covered all of their bases. What I can tell is that the first failure comes in the making of the prototypes. From my experience ($10,000 worth), and from ALL of the other complaints I have read, is that they make a very inferior prototype and packaging that has little resemblance to the product you present them. After being told NUMEROUS times by my rep (who was actually a nice guy), that the prototype could be "TWEAKED" to my satisfaction, imagine how HORRIFIED I was when I received a very poor representation of my invention and upon complaining about it's inferiority and making a list of the tweaks that I would insist on, I was told - yelled at actually - that once they have made their version of my prototype, that it CANNOT and WILL NOT be tweaked, changed, or improved. I was then told to refer to my contract. In essence, you are STUCK with the first prototype they make!!!! And, if you don't want to lose your first 4 or 5,000 bucks, then you just have to accept it their way in order not to lost what you have already put into it.
I continued with them hoping that a good manufacturer would see through the poor quality of the prototype (as my rep kept assuring me. I paid the rest of my money and my product was presented to a major company. In actuality, the virtual representation of the product is only emailed to the company, not presented in person. I was told this was "normal" business procedure in this "day and age." Of course the company was not interested.
To continue on and have this inferior prototype presented to yet another company there is an additional fee of $385. I find it excessive as all they do is hit send on their email and present the exact same prototype to the next company.
So there you have it. I AM feeling scammed, although I have little legal recourse to do anything about it. I can keep paying $385 for them to "send" my prototype to additional companies. I have not decided which step I will take next.
BUT BE WARNED. THEY WILL NOT CREATE YOUR PRODUCT, but an INFERIOR VERSION of THEIRS.