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@Dammit
Pace supplied my 295 with DMR Death-Grips, the name of which was actually pretty accurate - but not, I think, in the way that DMR intended.
In moments of high dynamic load (the red-run at Morgins downhill park) the grips would rotate on the bars, which meant that no matter what you tried to do you could not control the bike precisely. This, in the Alps, was terrifying.
I tried everything I could think of, repeatedly cleaning the bars and the grips with Isopropyl alcohol and fitting everything precisely according to the instructions, but they kept rotating.
I contacted DMR to tell them about this, offered to post them in the grips so they could take a look at them to find out why this had happened, and as I said - they could not have been less interested, and to put a stop to the conversation (as it was clearly boring them) suggested that I'd probably bought fakes anyway.
I put a fairly high premium on grips staying where they're meant to, and my current Renthal grips do just that. But that aside, if your signature product is dangerously bad I'd expect a tiny bit of interest - not the case with DMR.