Whew! What a long strange trip it's been!
We have been working on a way to offer our photos to our customers in more formats than the two we have had on our web site (Framed and just mounted & matted).
We have done a lot of research on the subject and finally decided that using a Print-On-Demand (POD) service would probably be the most economical way to go... for us and our customers. So... we started looking into what was available. We found a company that had T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, Hoodies as well as cards, mugs, buttons, stickers and other cool items. "Alright!" we thought. Now we can get some of Doug's photos to people in various formats and at prices lower than our current product line! We were excited.
We signed up and set up a test store to try some things out. We were notified by the service (I'm not going to mention their name in this blog, but you can
email me if you want to know) that they were concerned about using celebrity photos on our product. We assured them that we owned the photos and that we would not violate any "rules of the road" pertaining to the rights of those celebrities. Long story short... the POD service did not want to take the chance.
So we closed the shop.
The good news is that we found another service (there are not that many good ones, evidently). They do not offer all the products as the first company but they have a great service and a solid reputation. This time we checked with their legal department before setting up a store and received the "green light".
We are very pleased to be able to tell you that our new
PhotoFlashbacks Shirts store is open for business!
Although we have only one design on line at the moment (
Janis Joplin), we are working on more as fast as we can. We have purchased a couple of the shirts and the quality is there.
So, if you think you may be interested in sporting an original Doug Hartley PhotoFlashbacks Classic Rock photo (in any number of popular styles and sizes)... please surf by the store and take a look.
Until next time...
Rock On!
