<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>RE: Deceptive Advertising</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#0000FF">  I hope that some day we will look back and be appalled that it went on as long as it did. </font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#0000FF">Lance Lafargue, RPT</font></blockquote> <div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#0000FF"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="+2">While I'm annoyed by it too, this didn't start yesterday. Dozens of Boston and New York piano companies' name rights were bought up by American-Aeolian in the 1920s and 1930s, and those labels were placed on mediocre spinets and consoles which came out their Memphis plant, until their bankruptcy in the early 1980s.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="+2">It's commonplace in many other industries (you don't believe Buicks and Pontiacs are being made by the folks who started the companies do you?; cassette or CD players with labels once revered by Americans are certainly made in China, Mexico, or Indonesia, and the corporations behind the logo are probably offshore too).</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="+2">At any rate, it's a problem in many, many industries.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="+2"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="+2">Patrick</font></div> </body> </html>