Better than an Arca Cube? Korean Head

[Aender Brepsom]

These guys in Toronto are selling ballheads from the same manufacturer:

http://www.boothphoto.com/home.cfm

I have just send them an email asking for further information about the Multiflex head.
If I'll get an answer, I'll let you know.

Here is the answer I got today:

"Contact manufacturer for European sales."

Great help!

[vonstauren]

[QUOTE=Bob Salomon - HP Marketing;341606]

Arca was originally Swiss. Several years ago they moved the factory to France.

In your eyes, does this fact make the Arca Swiss company French now?

[Frank Petronio]

ArcaFrance just doesn't flow....

[Alan Rabe]

How old is the Arca Cube. When was it patented. Patents aren't forever. Usually on 14 years I think. Companies every where sit around and wait for patents to expire and then enter the market with their own knock off at a "reasonable price".

[Bob Salomon]

[QUOTE=vonstauren;341609]

In your eyes, does this fact make the Arca Swiss company French now?

It makes the factory and the products manufactured in the factory French. Otherwise their products could not state that they are made in the EU which is important for some companies and meaningless to others. But Switzerland is not part of the EU.

[mrladewig]

The arca cube is as well executed as any swiss watch.

Funny analogy as the majority of swiss watches are known to be off by a bit (a few seconds to a minute per day).

[vonstauren]

[QUOTE=Bob Salomon - HP Marketing;341656]

It makes the factory and the products manufactured in the factory French. Otherwise their products could not state that they are made in the EU which is important for some companies and meaningless to others. But Switzerland is not part of the EU.

Wait a moment - you said the company is now French, now you speak about the factory being French. Any difference in your eyes between the two (the company and the factory)? I enjoy your logic so far, Mr. Solomon...
We won't speak about the American computers being now Taiwanese because produced in Taiwan...

[Bob Salomon]

[QUOTE=vonstauren;341787]

What I don't know is why it is so difficult for you to acknowledge you said nonsense?
And why you don't answer the question - the company is French (as you mistakenly said!) or the factory is French? Now who is more obtuse, Mr. Solomon?

Why not ask them? Their business office is in Switzerland or in France where their production is.

I'll give you an example. We are a USA company. Our parent company is Gepe Management whose business office is in Zug, Switzerland. The factories whose Gepe products we sell are in Germany and in Sweden. Now what nationality is our company? Or our parent company which was founded originally in Sweden? Our company was founded in the USA.

So you decide. Are they a French company because that is where they manufacture or are they a Swiss company because they may still have an office there?

Are we a US company because we were founded and only have a single location in the US or are we a Swiss company because our corporate parent is located there? Or are we a German comany because our parent has a factory there or a Swedish company because our parent has factories there and was founded there?

[Songyun]

if the price was right (<$400) and the quality was reasonable.

The price is around $800, still decent though.

[vonstauren]

Besides Arca is a French company and no longer a Swiss factory.

Why not ask them? Their business office is in Switzerland or in France where their production is.

I'll give you an example. We are a USA company. Our parent company is Gepe Management whose business office is in Zug, Switzerland. The factories whose Gepe products we sell are in Germany and in Sweden. Now what nationality is our company? Or our parent company which was founded originally in Sweden? Our company was founded in the USA.

So you decide. Are they a French company because that is where they manufacture or are they a Swiss company because they may still have an office there?

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