Yamaha terminated an unspecified number of dealers who transshipped Yamaha product to Internet retailers in violation of their dealer agreements and tried to cover it up by having the products’ serial numbers altered.
“Until now, transshippers have covered their tracks by replacing the manufacturers’ real product serial numbers with inaccurate ones that were difficult to trace,” said spokesman Tom Graham. The transshippers were caught through a “new highly accurate procedure to trace products from the factory all the way to where they are sold, through legitimate dealers or otherwise,” the company said.
Yamaha has always been death on grey-market sales of their goods, but now they have high technology to assist their detective work. I have great respect for Yamaha's hardware and the efforts they go to in order to preserve the integrity of their brand.
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