Custom Suit Site Dilemma

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Greetings Warrior Forum,

This is my first post. I have always learned from this site and I look forward to succeeding with all of you.

Here is my dilemma. I moved from the US to a foreign country in to start a custom suit company. I am in the process of finishing my e-commerce site, and I currently have it live, just and now just tweeking it. Where I am at, it is hard to get American's to get pictures in suits, and right now it is hard to find a place in my budget for this. I have been using pictures off of other sites to show some of the suits my Tailors can design. I remember hearing in a Dan Kennedy CD, that if you use someone elses name, they will first send you a cease and desist letter. At that point you can remove the picture. On the other hand I heard from one of my suppliers out here that one of his associates got sued for 10,000 dollars for using one pictures. This is just a temporary solution until the company gets more profitable Which of these two cases is usually true? Would you do it this way? Does anyone have any better ideas?
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  • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
    You don't want to use pictures off of other peoples websites for your ecommerce site. Google will index the pictures and they will be easy to spot.

    You also open yourself up to legal troubles as you are already aware.

    You could try going to 'royalty free' image sites like Istockphoto and search using keywords for images that you can license for under $2 if you can find some that work. Just be sure you aren't stating that you designed or made the suits. Referring to them as examples would be better, but just don't claim them as your own as they will also get indexed by Google, et al.

    There are a lot of royalty free image sites and you can find them by Googling "royalty free images".

    ~Bill
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    • Profile picture of the author Success81
      Thanks Bill. That is good info.
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