We have something of a similar problem in the stained glass industry.

It is no longer profitable for any company or individual to make tiffany style lamps in America. It's just impossible for us to make them inexpensive enough to compete with the cheap imports from China. And according to one trade group a major factory producing those knock-off, low-quality lamps is actually attached to a prison camp using prisoners as slave labor.

Just as bad are salesmen for certain plastic companies who go around selling plastic sheets to people and tell them that by sticking the sheets to the window that they'll have a stained glass window, or at least the look of a stained glass window. What they don't say is that color in the plastic fades in less than 10 years, it's almost impossible to apply without having bubbles underneath, and it will always look like cheap plastic glued to a plate glass window. Yet just last night I saw it at Home Depot being marketed as the perfect way for the average home buyer to put stained glass in their home.

Yet one more reason why I feel good about spending the money on a tank from Scotland as long as it's actually made by the skilled craftsmen in Scotland.