"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
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On 17/09/2014 10:25 PM, Phil Allison wrote:
Trevor Wilson wrote:


**I usually place an ID sticker inside the product after service, with

my own reference number and date serviced. I never thought much about it

until a smartarse brought an amp in for service, claiming that my prior

repair was faulty. No internal ID sticker, but the serial number matched

one in my database. I decided to call him out. The arsehole had swapped

the serial numbers over on two identical amps. It's only time I've ever

seen it happen, but at least the system saved me.


** Any ****wit manufacturer who sells items packed as pairs with the
SAME serial numbers attached - has just saved all such arseholes the
trouble of doing a tedious label swapping job.

In fact, they have made it so easy it will happen by simple mistake.


**Agreed. It is daft.


As a slight aside to this, and following on from the possibility of the
Chinese cloning the Alesis product, does anyone know if Yammy badge any
products that are not their own, or allow badging of any of their own
products by a third party ? I always thought that they were very independent
in this regard, and if a product said Yamaha on it, then it had been
designed and made by them. Likewise, any product that didn't say Yamaha on
it, wasn't one of theirs.

Today, I had the removable amplifier box from a "Superlux Corporation model
SP108" portable PA system cross my bench for repair. I had never seen this
name before, but the actual item, both cosmetically and internally, was a
ringer for the Yammy Stagepas 300. I actually compared it to a 'real'
Stagepas 300 that had been written off some time back, and everything looked
pretty much identical. One or two minor differences in a few components,
mainly magnetics, but otherwise no obvious differences. Except, curiously,
the actual component reference numbers ...

Arfa
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Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au