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Here's another one of my politically incorrect, too little too late, pain
in the ass articles reminding you that you are screwing the entire American way
of life by buying expensive high end products made in Asia. After all it's already probably too
late. The next generation of kids are already tuned in to the Japanese guitars
culturally.
I am not a racist and I have nothing against the Asian race. However I do
hate large corporations whether they be American, German or Asian. I hate how
they use brainwashing techniques to sell their products.
For example I hate the fact that Pepsi uses mind association psychological
tactics to link Michael Jackson to their product. (I don't like Pepsi
or coke I think it's carbonated dyed sugar water for rip-off prices I also don't like their advertising tactics). I
realize that Pepsi could give a $hit whether Ed Roman buys their product or not.
I realize that my lousy few bucks means nothing to them. I just take comfort in
the fact that I am doing my part as minuscule as it may be.
It bothers me that people like Michael Jordan can sell 500 million dollars
worth of cheap Chinese made sneakers simply by being in a TV commercial.
Peavey product is a decent affordable product and Hartley Peavey is
a great man that I admire a lot. It's a shame that to achieve success he has to
pay people like Eddie or Joe Satriani etc etc. to play his products.
I despise Beer commercials... Oh yeah drink beer and your life will be
good, just like the brainless morons in the commercial.
Nothing makes me madder than having to look for a restaurant that isn't a
chain. Sometimes I have to go a long way to find a family owned Greek diner or
a real Pizza House. I refuse to eat at Burger King and Pizza Hut and almost all
the other fast food chains that are taking over the USA.
OK, OK, but what does that have to do with buying an
American made guitar?
If you really want to know, Read On
This Country is quickly losing it's credibility and stature in the world,
Soon we will no longer be at the top of the food chain.
Consider these facts...
1. Today kids grow up and instead of going to work in an airplane factory
or a television factory or an appliance factory they go to work as low paid carbon
blobs
for McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Burger King.
Buy American !!!!
2. There are still a good many guitar factories but we have to do our best
to keep it that way.
Buy American !!!!
3. Today in this age of memorabilia and Icons, The USA is chock full of
intrinsic value because the rest of the world wants to buy our Star Wars Models,
our Motorcycles, Automobiles and Guitars. If we start giving credibility to
Asian guitars etc. we will be shooting ourselves in the foot. 10 years
from now everyone will want Tomagachi's and old Yamahaha Guitars. Our children
will be working in factories mass producing teen age ninja mutant turtle
lunchboxes.
Buy American !!!!
When I say buy American, that means buy handmade high quality low
production products. Just because a factory is located on the American side of
the Mexican border does not mean it's an American company. In fact Japanese
corporations are trying to buy even more of the larger guitar companies.
Yamaha the #1 company a Japanese corporation does almost 5 Billion Dollars a
year. That's 10 times more than the #2 company, also a Japanese Company that
does approximately 500 Million a year. That is the Roland company.
Buy American !!!!
Remember just because Honda has a factory in Kentucky and Ohio it does not
mean that they are an American Company. Just because a company has an office in
New York or LA does not mean that they are an American company. Just because
ESP occasionally sells a partly American made guitar it doesn't mean that the bulk of
their product 98% is still made in Asian countries. These companies will do
just about anything to try to get you to believe that they are American owned.
(Don't you believe it).
Look for the words "Made in the USA"
Just because a company has an office in Neptune, New Jersey, or Nashville
Tennessee, Or Scottsdale Arizona..... It definitely does not mean they are owned
by Americans and the product isn't necessarily made in the USA.
Kramer had neck plates made that said Neptune New Jersey. (They omitted
the operative word) The operative word here is "Made"
Buyer Beware
IMPORTANT NOTE
There is nothing wrong with buying an Imported lower cost
item. In fact I believe that's what we should be doing. I have issues with the
fact that the American public is buying expensive overpriced ESP, Epiphone,
Lexus & Infiniti. I believe that Italia or Fernandes build a decent guitar
for a decent price. Even Ibanez has now lowered their prices so incredibly much
that they actually make good sense.
If you insist on buying a Japanese car then at least buy a
Subaru or another inexpensive brand. Don't go out and spend $90,000.00 on a
Lexus. These companies are using the American gullibility to sell. Many
Americans still believe that you get what you pay for. BS to that.
Epiphone guitars come out of the same Korean factories as most other cheapo
guitars and yet they sell for much more. Again Ed Roman says BS to that. If you
are incredibly stupid you might fall for that scam. Remember large corporations
get large by selling thin air, Innuendo, Hype and various other BS so be
one of the smart ones and don't fall for it.
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Ed Roman
01/12/2000
More reason's
why Ed Roman refuses to buy
products made by large corporations
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Brussels, 16 July 2003
Commission fines Yamaha
millions for restrictions of trade and resale price maintenance in
Europe
The European Commission has decided to
impose a fine of € 2.56 million on musical instruments manufacturer
Yamaha for restricting trade within the European single market and
fixing resale prices in certain EU countries for such products as
pianos, guitars and oboes. Although the restrictions were of a
serious nature, they seemed to be limited to certain dealers,
products and countries rather than the result of a deliberate
strategy, and appear not to have been implemented in full.
Furthermore, as soon as the Commission intervened, Yamaha took steps
to end the restrictions and to redesign its European distribution
system.
Yamaha sells under a selective distribution
system a whole range of traditional and electronic musical
instruments and equipment in Europe, such as pianos, electronic
organs, guitars, saxophones and violins. The company is the European
market leader for most musical instruments.
After an investigation, the Commission has
concluded that Yamaha has violated European Union competition rules
by entering into agreements or concerted practices aimed at
partitioning the market and fixing resale prices.
Such practices had the object of restricting
competition, within the meaning of Article 81(1) of the EU treaty
and Article 53(1) of the European Economic Agreement, in Germany,
Italy, France, Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and
Iceland.
The restrictions took different forms at
different times and in different countries. They included
obligations on official dealers to sell only to final customers;
obligations on official dealers to purchase exclusively from the
Yamaha subsidiaries; obligations on official dealers to contact
Yamaha before exporting via the Internet; and the fixing of resale
prices.
Agreements and/or restrictive practices
partitioning the European market and fixing resale prices constitute
a violation of EU rules, according to an extensive case law.
Although the infringement was qualified as
serious, some of the contractual provisions were applied to only a
limited number of dealers and products, were not systematically
included in all Yamaha agreements throughout the EEA and have not
been simultaneously implemented.
The fact that Yamaha terminated a majority of
the restrictions as soon as the Commission intervened was also
considered a mitigating circumstance.
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