^^^Could be, I know a lot of pickup manufacturer's change their methods/practices over the years. As far as I know, Warwick is the only company that uses MEC pickups/electronics, so maybe they got enough un-friendly words about them and pressured MEC to pick up their pickups (that was cheesey but I couldn't resist).
EDIT: To the local luthier... I mean Mr. Winters.... ugh... I mean JPBass
