---- mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET> wrote: > Don said he had never heard of engines being sold as "turnkey" and I > pointed out they are commonly sold under just that label. These > companies explicitly sell built up engines packaged for simple > installation and they say so right up front. How you would lump that > with some kind of food product misrepresentation is beyond me. The > engine companies don't claim a team of fairies will visit during the > night to install it for you or anything. Anyone buying an engine mail > order certainly knows they will have to do more than just start the car > after the engine arrives. And to sell such a product under the consumer understood term "turn key" is not appropriate, since one cannot turn a key and use the product. Pretty simple. > > Mark > > > > Jim Felder wrote: > > You can google the term "healthy food" and get even more examples of > > companies misrepresenting their products, just to offer a single > > example out of many. The fact that a great number of people get away > > with it shouldn't have any bearing on the meaning of the phrase > > "healthy food" or "turnkey" or what we accept as such. These are > > claims that sound good, get people interested, etc. but are not > > reality, and for the sake of people who really do offer turnkey work > > and healthy food, they shouldn't. > > > > My two. > > > > Jim > > > > Try Google on the term "turnkey > >> engine" and you will see hundreds of businesses selling engines they > >> call turnkey. No matter how narrowly any of us may prefer to use the > >> term the fact is that the industry in question broadly uses it in a > >> different way and thus people in that industry may also do so without > >> committing any inherent contradiction. > >> Don Hanson wrote: > >>> > > -- David McNeely |
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