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Quartermaster Shop |
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5565 Griswold Road |
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Kimball, Michigan 48074-1906 |
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Known for Quality Historical Men's Military Uniforms and Civilian Clothing Reproductions- Since 1975
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHS and TEXT ON THIS WEBSITE .....Almost every day we discover several web sites selling reproduction historical uniforms have chosen to "borrow" the copyrighted photos of our uniforms from our web site without our authorization. Since then we have "watermarked" our photos. We have asked these companies to remove our photos from their web sites, 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 at a 1/3 of the price, but a much lower quality import, even though their web site displays pictures of our uniforms. The Quartermaster Shop has NO association with such unethical business practices and companies that do not honor copyright laws, and deceives their customers. The photo images that appear on our web site 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 web site 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.
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 web site 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! A thought to consider.... If something is good enough to sell, shouldn't it be good enough to show to the customer before they buy it? Quartermaster Shop) possesses a Certificate of Registration with the United States Copyright Office. Our registration number is # TX 7-224-399. This registration makes it illegal and punishable for any company or person to take text or photos from our web site, catalogs, or any other published material without our written permission. This Web site is Protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States of America. By using our photographs and not selling our uniforms, these companies steal from us and mislead you, 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 web site 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 is-lead them on their previous uniform purchase! And that hurts!
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