As a person who has a webpage that features kilts that I make, over the years, we have found pictures of the product that we have painfully taken hours to make, engineer, improve upon, have found their way onto pages of others claiming to be their own product.
These others tend to be companies offering kilts for low prices, saying they have the best quality etc. ( you may gather from where they are based) I don’t think they have made the product, they are looking for interest and if they get enough orders they will go into production.
Yes I must improve the system so that photos can’t be lifted from my site. It’s a challenge at times for us independent operators having to deal with time taken away from producing a product that someone is jonesing for.
Well that being said and the frustration concerning that, I have found another type of lowlife.
A protective customer of mine forwards an eBay listing that he found, which has one of my kilts as their product. The photo isn’t that flattering. I can’t place it, and it isn’t one I would’ve taken or posted.
I contact the seller explaining that the photo they are using is of my product, direct them to my website to prove that this is my product.
The reply is that they can’t find the same photo on my website as they are using, and the kilts are similar but they have their own offshore company that designs and makes the kilt and they all look alike.
In the meantime I’m racking my brain as to the origin of the kilt photo. My wife pipes in that it looks like they have taken it off the display rack from my booth.
Yes! Some lowlife in Southern Ontario has been to the highland games taken a photo of my kilt and then is marketing it as their own through a eBay store.
The eBay seller is 30-minute drive from me I offer to show him the kilt in question and give him live proof that the kilt in the photo and the one I have is indeed the one and the same. Wouldn’t go for it. He said the phot is from his supplier.
(This operation is one that takes an order. then sends it to the supplier and it is sent from the factory to the customer)
This morning I photographed the kilt hanging the same way as per his photo and sent it to him. I am allowing him the courtesy to remove the photo before going to eBay.
Failing that route I may resort to Gorilla warfare and request some help in filling his inbox.
Shall keep you posted
Ya a rant…some peoples children

Cheers
Robert