Date:         Tue, 29 May 2012 08:32:55 -0500
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Turnkey Proposal Rocky Mountain Westy
Comments: To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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Really could be, and has been is some cases where unscrupulous vendors have preyed on people's common sense understanding of what should be a simple, straightforward term, grounds for a lawsuit.  In the case of "organic" food, an entire subset of the USDA and numerous state agencies have gotten involved because of this sort of thing.   If a vendor advertise a product using a term that other, more scrupulous vendors have been able to rely on because people know what it means, and it cuts into honest vendor's business or harms the customer, bingo.  Lawsuit, appropriately so.  But, evidently, those who "stole" the term "turn key" feel like they have gotten away with it.  Too bad.  Now, if I am shopping for a product that I should have to be able to use without installation or modification if it is turn key, and the seller says it is turn key, I will have no idea if it is or not, or what I should expect for my money.

Buyer beware I suppose, because sellers are out to fleece you.

Good grief!!

mcneely

---- Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> 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:
> >>

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David McNeely