Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Bessa-T - let me get this straight...
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:41:01 -0800
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Marc James Small wrote:
> 
> At 10:17 AM 3/16/2001 -0800, Ted Grant wrote:
> >>>>>There IS, of course, the intellectually dishonest Cosina management
> >> and, I suppose, a Cosina board room.<<<<
> >
> >I wondered why you made this comment? Not a chain pull, but an honest
> >question as I really don't understand.
> 
> If Cosina had one ounce of honesty, they would list their goods as being
> made by Cosina and not by "Voigtländer".  The products are NOT made by
> Voigtländer, a defunct German company.  They are made by Cosina.  Why is
> Cosina so afeared of using their own name on their own products?
><Snip> 

I just really bugs me when they go "Voigtländer Germany" on the Cosina stuff.
A name is great and it's great to be able to buy it perhaps. I'll sell you my
title if you want 
but this is just DECEPTION.
And there are stronger words for deception one could use if ones blood was up.
(Which mine ain't)
Fraud?
"One that defrauds; a cheat. B. One who assumes a false pose; an impostor.
[Middle English fraude, from Old French, from Latin fraus, fraud-.]"
A piece of trickery; a trick.
Yes!! a benign piece of happy trickery.
Trick or treat!?

Mark Rabiner

Portland, Oregon
USA
http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/

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