Ethically wrong in my opinion

[showcase 66]

Got off the phone earlier with one of the basketball coaches for the middle schools here that I bid on some shirts for the team to sell to raise money. (I mentioned last week about my troubles with the schools.)

This lady was pissed and wanted to know if I was making her designed shirts and selling them to parents. I sub out my shirts so I don't keep inventory of them in house and dont really want to take the space up either.

Anyway, apparently another shirt shop had made a bunch of shirts and was selling them at the game last night for $5 less than the school was selling them at.

I just found out that it was the company that got the bid that was selling them at the school.

To me that is BS. He already made his money from the school and now he is taking money away from the team. Why would you do that.

 

[Mosh]

Big reason I printed shirts in house. I see this type of crap going on with the other area printers. I try to not do stuff for the schools.

 

[2B]

that is a BS move IMO, we do work for the schools and when a parent comes to us directly we do 2 things

1: send them to the school as this is meant for the school funding
2: charge them X times more than what the school is doing it for

Why would the coach come to you, as you were no the winning bid?

 

[petepaz]

. we do a lot of work with print brokers and if i ever did that to one of them they would go nuts. i have had their customers call me for a quote not knowing that i made the job for the broker to sell to them. i will then call the broker and we either work out a something. either i quote the job higher then them so they still get it or i will just quote it out normal and allow enough to give them a commision.

that guy is double dipping, that is just bad business

 

[ucmj22]

maybe he was getting the school back because on his last project the school only paid %25 of the bill...

 

[WildWestDesigns]

Why would the coach come to you, as you were no the winning bid?

That's what I was wondering about too. Why would they go to you about that. Unless they went to that other place first and got told a story, but then that would depend on if they sent you the original vector artwork as well when you did the quot.

That isn't right for that sign shop to do that.

 

[signage]

Was this a job you did or was it a job he did for the schools?

 

[Gino]

That's just wrong on so many levels...... and the first one being they don't have permission. I'd kick their butt out to the sidewalk and back.

 

[showcase 66]

I was contacted by the coach along with the other companies that put in a bid on the job. They were trying to find who was doing it.

Dont think they will go with him again. I know one school has removed them from the list when they send bids out. Maybe a couple more after this. Just stupid.

 

[signswi]

Not only unethical, illegal. He doesn't have rights of reproduction or resale. School takes him to court he'll lose everything he sold plus a hefty fine or two. That type of thing isn't right I would have no problem informing the school of who was the culprit, especially since they suspected you. As long as your info is good and you aren't just slinging mud there's nothing unethical about passing on the truth to the school.