Anyone have this bumper? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

jhandy · 08-27-2009, 08:24 AM

Kirk,
If I where you, I would send a legal letter to the company head stating that you would like your royality checks send directly to your office. You can inspect the source code for the website and see how long they have been using your picture and then extrapulate a resonable cost to use your photos.

You may never get a dime, but it would be fun to mess with. I get a twisted joy out of stuff like that.

Boxtaboy · 08-27-2009, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by jhandy

Kirk,
If I where you, I would send a legal letter to the company head stating that you would like your royality checks send directly to your office. You can inspect the source code for the website and see how long they have been using your picture and then extrapulate a resonable cost to use your photos.

You may never get a dime, but it would be fun to mess with. I get a twisted joy out of stuff like that.

They have emails listed on their website for contact. I would tell them you do not appreciate them using photos of your car without your permission.

Kirk · 08-27-2009, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by jhandy

Kirk,
If I where you, I would send a legal letter to the company head stating that you would like your royality checks send directly to your office. You can inspect the source code for the website and see how long they have been using your picture and then extrapulate a resonable cost to use your photos.

You may never get a dime, but it would be fun to mess with. I get a twisted joy out of stuff like that.

Not to hijack this thread, but I appreciate the input. Honestly I was pretty pissed yesterday that they did this. I figured out that they stole the photos off my Car Domain web page, doctored them, put their own watermark on them to claim them as theirs, and put them on their web page to sell a product not really pictured on the car. I also found out from some web searches that this is NOT the first time that Extreme Dimensions has done this, and yes I've checked the legal side of it and as I took the pictures myself with my camera of my car and posted them on my website they are my property and Extreme Dimensions does not have a right to use them for their marketing.

I've sent e-mails to the head of marketing and he's promised to take the photos down once I provide originals proving that they are mine (easy enough to do). We'll see how it works out. If they don't take them down, then I will honestly seek legal recourse. I just think it was a completely underhanded thing for them to do, especially when they could have contacted me EASILY through Car Domain.

And thanks Boxtaboy, I sent Ofishbein a PM about this over on 6speed.

We'll see what happens.

Boxtaboy · 08-27-2009, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Kirk

Not to hijack this thread, but I appreciate the input. Honestly I was pretty pissed yesterday that they did this. I figured out that they stole the photos off my Car Domain web page, doctored them, put their own watermark on them to claim them as theirs, and put them on their web page to sell a product not really pictured on the car. I also found out from some web searches that this is NOT the first time that Extreme Dimensions has done this, and yes I've checked the legal side of it and as I took the pictures myself with my camera of my car and posted them on my website they are my property and Extreme Dimensions does not have a right to use them for their marketing.

I've sent e-mails to the head of marketing and he's promised to take the photos down once I provide originals proving that they are mine (easy enough to do). We'll see how it works out. If they don't take them down, then I will honestly seek legal recourse. I just think it was a completely underhanded thing for them to do, especially when they could have contacted me EASILY through Car Domain.

And thanks Boxtaboy, I sent Ofishbein a PM about this over on 6speed.

We'll see what happens.

Good luck! I have also seen people do this on fleabay when they took a guy's picture of his 986 S with OEM bodykit, and were trying to sell aftermarket cheap fiberglass side skirts. Losers!

TimAustinW · 08-27-2009, 11:51 AM

Since you hijacked my thread see if they will compensate you with 2 body kits, one you can sell and one you can give to me

RandallNeighbour · 08-27-2009, 12:13 PM

I've yet to see any of it yet Tim! And I don't know about the quality from a body shop's perspective either. We'll see.

If I'm not thrilled with the styling, I might just bequeath some of it to you since you're just a stone's throw away in Northwest Houston (ooops, I meant Austin).

TimAustinW · 08-27-2009, 12:26 PM

Don't you mean South Dallas?

RandallNeighbour · 08-27-2009, 01:29 PM

South Dallas, North San Antonio, Northwest Houston, or even far Eastern El Paso (OK, that's a stretch)

It's all about perspective, my friend. I live in Houston and it's bigger than Austin so Austin is just a very cool far flung suburb of Houston to most folks around here.

And I do mean "very cool" because Austin is by far the hippest, most fun city in Texas. I always tell people that if they would like to live in California but must remain in Texas for some reason, Austin's the place to live.

If I could move to Austin I'd do it in a heartbeat. But if I move it will be to this location:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Robbinsville,+NC&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.86519,79.013672&ie=UTF8&z=15&iwloc=A