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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WJC" data-source="post: 3550539" data-attributes="member: 25191">Hi Joachim:Steiner has been owned by Beretta since 2008, as far as them “touting” that “ALL Steiner bins are made in Germany,” unless things have changed DRAMATICALLY in the last few years, that’s a bald faced lie. When the Steiner rep approached me (when I first saw the photo of Karl with his car on the bino) to sell Steiner, he told me: “We sell our binoculars to 22 armies around the world.” Then, when visited by Sven Harms of Pioneer Marketing (then the importer) he told me: “We don’t sell to 22 armies. Just one; the biggest.” One need not have a sensitive nose to smell a rat in all the double talk. But, we had never met and I let him continue.Then, he started with that auto focus crap. I’ve made some good money writing articles and it all started with my attack on that dishonest sales tactic. Pioneer used it in Steiner ads and again on Navy One—now imported by Weems and Plath. The text for my book was complete by the last week in December but I am having a hard time remembering my InDesign and Twin Falls is not a hotbed of Adobe help. The Steiner/auto focus connecting is covered prominently therein.The reason I asked you to relate what the Germany people think of Steiner is because I have heard more than one European say that they’re living on a German name and are really not that popular in Germany. :cat:Bill</blockquote>