I also bought a Grand Auditorium last year.
Mine is a lovely guitar and I bought a strap for it from Tim before Christmas.
Shame they have disappeared.
The guitars are actually made in China by Nanjing Aileen
Interesting that they posted this on 12 Dec 2007.
http://www.a-violin.com/blog/?p=21
or watch
http://aileen.en.alibaba.com/videoshow.html