Thanks for helping us figure out this puzzle! So much for being made in Canada.
Interesting stuff!
Ouch.... Not recommended to provide false information to customs... NAFTA break on taxes?
I used to work at a US plant owned by a Chinese company. They would have the small labor intensive parts manufactured in China then have enough of the final product produced in the US to qualify as a US made product. If this company made the panels in Canada and imported the other parts it most likely would qualify as Canadian.
Give the guy a break, he is telling us about a dish that many members would want to use at a decent price. Guess he is guilty as charged..hmm..
Well whoever is selling them is not selling a lot of them as they are mailing them from an Envoy Business Service shop in Scarborough (Toronto) it is like a FedEx Kinkos or UPS store here in the states. I can't imagine carting a 150 pound dish over to a shipping place especially if they are moving a quantity of them.
In the same plaza there is an electronics store called Delta Electronics. From what I can tell I do not think that they are Tek2000, while they do home theater they do not seem to do any satellite stuff. http://www.deltaelectronicson.net/ Although I am not able to look up information on the domain as they have the whois information blocked. http://whois.domaintools.com/deltaelectronicson.net.
There seems to be a John Simpson who works for or is Tek2000. I am currently investigating this as there are a number of John Simpson's in the area. John does seem to have a cell phone from Bell Mobility I do have his number of 416-655-XXXX with no answer upon calling.
This just keeps getting stranger and stranger.
Give the guy a break, he is telling us about a dish that many members would want to use at a decent price. Guess he is guilty as charged..hmm..
Why should we when he is misleading members into making them believe that his dishes are manufactured in Canada?!? We satellite industry veterans know very well that it would be impossible to sell North American manufactured dishes at this price point due to the expensive tooling required and high operational costs involved in having a North American based factory. Even high-end dishes made in China or Taiwan are more expensive to acquire than the price he is selling them for as per Titanium's post on this thread who has previous experience importing dishes from Azure Shine in Taiwan under the GEOSATpro brand when he was working at SatelliteAV. With the pictures posted by a member who purchased one of his dishes, it was proven that they were manufactured by Renqiu Beifang Electronic Communication Co Ltd in China.
None of this would have happened if Tek2000 aka rooneysat would stop hiding and openly admit that his dishes are actually made in China. Lying in export documentation by claiming that the goods were manufactured in Canada instead of China in order to take advantage of NAFTA is illegal under 19 U.S.C. 1592. If and when U.S. Customs finds out, they will seize the entire shipment and the person purchasing will have to initiate a chargeback on their credit card in order to get their money back unless they were stupid enough to pay using Western Union which one of the payment methods accepted by Tek2000.