Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The could stamp "WALMART MAYLAYSIA since 2001" on their gear and I'd buy it if it helped me produce the images I want to produce at an equipment cost that I can reasonably afford. A rose is a rose, etc... Carpe Luminem, Michael E. Bérubé At 12:41 PM 3/16/01 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: >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/