No way....MEAD may have been cooking the books. We know for sure that they have been selling some product below cost for years. They are getting what they deserve now....it's like the Hubble Telescope is now suing their ass. Hottest asto related product, maybe in history, is Celestron's SkyScout. Inventors might have done JV with MEAD, but those bozos filed suit trying to steal it from them and lost. Meade may see a pile of lawsuits hitting them soon...initiated by their own dealers and distributors.