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Mitä minä olen amerikkalaisilta saiteilta lukenut niin noi TFPron tuotteet ei välttämättä ole teknisesti kovin laadukkaita. Sekin pitää vielä oikaista että noilla ei virallisesti ole mitään tekemistä Joemeekin kanssa vaan amerikkalainen PMI audio osti Joemeekin konkurssipesästä kaikki oikeudet Joemeek nimeen ja tuotteisiin, jonka jälkeen ex-Joemeek omistaja Ted Fletcher alkoi myydä samoihin kytekentöihin perustuvia laitteita TFPro nimellä. Kyseessä on siis piraattituotteet, jotka ovat kopioita aiemmin Joemeek nimellä myydyistä laitteista. Joemeekin konkurssin jäljiltä ilmeisesti joukko Joemeekin työntekijöitä ilman lopputiliään ja työttömyyskorvauksetkin jäivät näiltä saamatta koska Ted oli pistänyt työntekijöiltään pidättämänsä työttömyyskassamaksut omiin taskuihinsa. Sellainen pisnismies jonka kanssa ainakaan minä en haluaisi olla missään tekemisissä.
 
rec.audio.pro:sta kopsattua:
 
"Hello All,
 
I am that nasty American Company that purchased the Trademark and its
associated rights to Joemeek from the UK Liquidators legally. I really
did not want to air my dirty laundry on this matter, and prefer to let
the new products when they hit the streets speak for themselves, but
there seems to be too much confusion over this whole deal.
 
Someone asked why they out of business and did they owe other people
money. Well yes, they owed a great deal of money, but no sense to go
into that. The sad part I will mention is none of the employee's
received any severance pay to which they were entitled, some of the
final checks bounced, and when they went to collect their unemployment
pay, they were told they were not entitled to it because Ted Fletcher
had not paid it in for some time.
 
Now this money was deducted and with held from the employee's, so it
had to go somewhere!!! While they may have not done this to "all" the
employee's as I am sure there were preferred ones, I had a meeting in
the UK with several of them and heard it direct from their mouths.
This was just not right. I would go without my pay to make sure my
employee's were paid properly.
 
So,now on to this bash Alan joemeek.net web site. I have been accused
of stealing this Trademark underhandedly, yet when all of this was
unfolding, Ted sent me a personal e-mail and I quote, "I fully
appreciate your ideas about the business model that you are sticking
to, and right now this fits in very well with what we are trying to
achieve", I have already told the potential liquidator that you may be
interested in acquiring the rights of the trademark. He has encouraged
me to contact you to ask for an offer.
 
Well to me, this was an invitation, not a burglary. As you know I have
been selling Joemeek for almost 9 years. Many of the ideas for
products as well as their names and all that Meek Marketing like Got
Meek came from me. Over the last 4 years I have been funding Ted's
company with advance payments as well as funding all the Chinese
manufacturing. So I have personally invested a great deal of money to
advance the Joemeek Brand Name, as well as being told that I was a
partner, which I aslo have in writting. In either case, just the fact
that I created and funded the products gives me intellectual rights.
It does not matter that Ted was an electrical designer..he was hired
to build certian products for me and did not sell these products to
the rest of the world. In addition, he used my product suggestions to
update his units.
 
So here I sit, and now own the UK Trademark. As soon as the transfer
is finsihed, it gives me the clearance to get the rest of Europe. We
have applied for all the Asian Countries and other important areas as
well. My USA mark is pending and will go through despite Ted's
objections.
 
All I am asking for is for TFPro, Joe Audio, JM UK, Promeek, or other
entity that they develop their own products and not palm or pass them
off as Joemeek products...my Registered Trademark. So yes, I have
written them to cease and desist which is my "legal" right to do so,
and end up labeled the bad American.
 
TFPro can change the color, change the layout, and go about their
merry way. They can't seem to get over the fact they lost their
business and I bought it! Well that is not my problem. I have no
problems with Ted designing new products, as long as they are not
clones of Joemeek, which they sure the hell are right now. When our
new units come after our redesign, I am confident that our products
will be significantly better than theirs. So if TFPro are so sure that
Ted Fletchers great designs will prevail, then they do not need to
clone, copy, or pass them self off as Joemeek, do they? Besides which
they have no legal right to do anymore.
 
That is the story. In the end, it will be you, the customers that will
decide what product is most worthy. This is why I am so confident that
we will prevail.
 
I hope this clears some of this up. I just hope they will make the
change, and move on. If I can answer any further question, e-mail me
at alan@pmiaudio.com
 
Alan Hyatt
PMI Audio Group"