Well Harry, that would make them counterfeit, not clones. Jacques
At 01:49 PM 12/20/2003 -0500, Harry F. Schiestel wrote: >I'm hearing a lot of business travellers going to China are coming back with >a full 14+ piece set of either Callaway or TM's with matching OEM golf bags. >As the story goes, apparently they have duplicated the tooling and sent to >other casting houses, so it doesn't even look like a clone, but rather the >real deal. They are paying around $200 USD for full sets with golf bag. >Today, I sold a custom set for $1,600 CDN, and his boss just came back from >China with his $200 Callaway set with extra Two Ball putters. Other >executives have similar stories to tell. I hope the buying public don't >think this is the new price point for a full set of clubs with bag. >Hopefully the OEM's will jump all over this, but it might be hard to do >legal battles in China. >Thanks Harry S ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HTML><HEAD> ><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> ><META content="MSHTML 6.00.2733.1800" name=GENERATOR><!--IncrdiXMLRemarkStart> ><IncrdiX-Info> ><X-FID>733184F6-72EB-422F0BF7D-78026A357AB4</X-FID> ><X-FVER></X-FVER> ><X-FIT></X-FIT> ><X-FCOL></X-FCOL> ><X-FCAT></X-FCAT> ><X-FDIS></X-FDIS> ><X-BG></X-BG> ><X-BGT>no-repeat</X-BGT> ><X-BGC>#ffffff</X-BGC> ><X-BGPX>0px</X-BGPX> ><X-BGPY>0px</X-BGPY> ><X-ASN>ANIM3D00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000</X-ASN> ><X-ASNF>0</X-ASNF> ><X-ASH>ANIM3D00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000</X-ASH> ><X-ASHF>1</X-ASHF> ><X-AN>ANIM3D00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000</X-AN> ><X-ANF>0</X-ANF> ><X-AP>ANIM3D00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000</X-AP> ><X-APF>1</X-APF> ><X-AD>ANIM3D00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000</X-AD> ><X-ADF>0</X-ADF> ><X-AUTO>X-ASN,X-ASH,X-AN,X-AP,X-AD</X-AUTO> ><X-CNT>;</X-CNT> ></IncrdiX-Info> ><IncrdiXMLRemarkEnd--></HEAD> ><BODY >style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times'" >bgProperties=fixed bgColor=#ffffff background="" scroll=yes ORGYPOS="0" >X-ADF="0" X-AD="ANIM3D00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000" X-APF="1" >X-AP="ANIM3D00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000" X-ANF="0" >X-AN="ANIM3D00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000" X-ASHF="1" >X-ASH="ANIM3D00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000" X-ASNF="0" >X-ASN="ANIM3D00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000" X-FVER="3.0" >X-FID="733184F6-72EB-422F0BF7D-78026A357AB4" X-FIT="Letter" X-FCOL="Example" >X-FCAT="Example" X-FDIS="Untitled" SIGCOLOR="0"> ><DIV><SPAN class=303023418-20122003><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I'm hearing a lot >of business travellers going to China are coming back with a full 14+ piece set >of either Callaway or TM's with matching OEM golf bags. ></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=303023418-20122003><FONT face=Verdana size=2>As the >story goes, apparently they have duplicated the tooling and sent to other >casting houses, so it doesn't even look like a clone, but rather the real >deal. </FONT></SPAN><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2><SPAN >class=303023418-20122003>They are paying around $200 USD for full sets with golf >bag. Today, I sold a custom set for $1,600 CDN, and his boss just came >back from China with his $200 Callaway set with extra Two Ball putters. ></SPAN><SPAN class=303023418-20122003>Other executives have similar stories to >tell. I hope the buying public don't think this is the new price point for >a full set of clubs with bag. Hopefully the OEM's will jump all over >this, but it might be hard to do legal battles in >China.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> ><DIV><SPAN class=303023418-20122003><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Thanks Harry >S</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML> >
