Dishonest Dealers

[Jon Page]

Notify the Attorney General in your state for an investigation.

Get a customer to file a complaint to get the ball rolling.

Regards,

Jon Page



At 02:07 PM 12/19/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>
>> Nevertheless with the
>>German sounding name and history the dealer has chosen to pass these
>instruments off as German. 
>
>
>Hey Rob,
>
>we have a dealer here who passes his J. Becker pianos off as Dutch.  The
>only pianos I know of from Holland are Rippen and they went out of business
>in ´89.  The only connection these Russian-made instruments have to
>Holland, is that they´re shipped from Rotterdam to Iceland.  We believe, as
>Brian said, that the best way to tackle this is to have an unfortunate
>buyer file a fraud charge, but so far we haven´t found anyone who´s willing
>to do that.
>
>Good luck!
>
>Kristinn Leifsson
>Reykjavík, Iceland. 
>  
Jon Page, piano technician, Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.,
mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net
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