http://www.penciltalk.org/2009/11/240mm-triangular-pencils exploring the art and science of pencils since 2005 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:09:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.penciltalk.org/2009/11/240mm-triangular-pencils/comment-page-1#comment-36370 Kiwi-d Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:16:11 +0000 http://www.penciltalk.org/?p=1788#comment-36370 "The pencil is marked “Germany”, and Lyra has told me this means the pencil is not made in Germany" Some time back I had a few discussions with Lexikaliker from Germany on this subject. Whilst strictly legal, I find it really misleading. Surely when most people see Germany or some other country marked on a product they take it to be the country of manufacture. I feel its a deliberate ploy to mislead consumers by those manufacturers who mark their products in this way. “The pencil is marked “Germany”, and Lyra has told me this means the pencil is not made in Germany” Some time back I had a few discussions with Lexikaliker from Germany on this subject. Whilst strictly legal, I find it really misleading. Surely when most people see Germany or some other country marked on a product they take it to be the country of manufacture. I feel its a deliberate ploy to mislead consumers by those manufacturers who mark their products in this way.

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