>> ... failing to mark them as refurbished.
>> ...
>> Someone who refurbishes a product to make it look closer to new than
>> it is, and fails to mark it as such is misleading the public as a whole.

I rebuild speakers for antique cars, jukeboxes, radios and guitar amplifiers all the time. The only markings I put on my work is a date code on the back of the cone for the purpose of judging the legitimacy of warranty claims.

I do my rebuilds not only with the intention of the speaker looking original but also performing as the original speaker did, with the parts that are available to me today (that availability makes this job harder to do every day.)

If I rebuild a 15" speaker for a 50-year-old jukebox and the person who is restoring that jukebox to sell for $20,000 doesn't specifically tell his buyer the details of who, how and where he got every part he needed to do the restoration, I, as the speaker rebuilder, am some how misleading the public? I don't think so.

Bob