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THE PHOTOGRAPHS ON OUR WEBSITE.....
As of 04/07/04, we have
discovered several companies making and/ or selling and/or renting reproduction historical
uniforms have chosen to "borrow" the copyrighted photos of our uniforms from
our website without our authorization. We have
asked these companies to remove our copyrighted photos from their
websites, but apparently they see no harm in misleading you and committing copyright infringement.
Please be warned that if
you order from them, you will not be getting a Quartermaster Shop garment,
even though their website displays pictures of our uniforms. The Quartermaster
Shop has NO association with such unethical business practices and
companies that do not honor copyright laws.
We wish to inform everyone, that
ALL of the photo images that appear on our website are photos we have taken of
the clothing we manufacture here in our tailor shop in Kimball, Michigan. We reserve and
retain exclusive copyrights to these photo images. The only photos that
appear on our website that have not been taken by our staff, are images sent in by
our customers who
are wearing clothing they have purchased from us. These images were
sent to us for placement on our Showcase page.
Only three Sutlers
have asked and received permission to use the images shown on our website-
Gay Frazer of Frazer
Brothers in Dallas, Texas and USHist
/ AzRAHist Resources
and Reproductions owned by Mr.Terry Leavey. These two dealers sell our
uniforms exclusively, and you will be assured of getting garments made by us
if you order from them. The Fall Creek Sutler sells uniforms from
several makers, and will supply a uniform made by us if you specifically
request it. Also, several clubs who buy their uniforms from us
have asked for and received permission to use our photos on their websites to
help inform the public of their particular club's interest. In these
cases, we have asked that a statement appear near the photo that
acknowledges permission was given to use our uniform photo.
We understand why other
companies may be tempted to simply copy our photos instead of taking photos
of their own uniforms. Taking good photographs takes a lot of time!
We simply cannot understand why anyone would mislead a
potential customer! A website visitor assumes that a picture
showing a product is a picture of the product they will get if they
purchase. This is not the case if a company steals a photo
from someone else!
By using our
photographs and not selling our uniforms, these companies steal from both
us and the customer. Customers are cheated by getting a
uniform of lesser quality than the one that they saw "in the
picture". The worst part of the situation is; when these disappointed
customers finally find our website and then see the same pictures on our
site as the
other company is using, they assume we are somehow connected to the company that mis-lead them on
their previous
uniform purchase! And that hurts!
If
something is good enough to sell, shouldn't it be good enough to show to the
customer before they buy it?
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