And a body can see that in 3 seconds on the Kleargear site which still displays bogus endorsements.

What is REALLY offensive is having 6 censors on Wikipedia zapping every fact for every 1 contributor attempting to put them up. (errr zero contributors)

http://neer-do-well-hall-of-infamey.blogspot.ca/

KlearGear is caught in a kind of economic “coffin corner.” Amazon is steadily inserting itself as a kind of universal bursar and purchasing agent, building more warehouses with more robots, and the big merchandising companies such as Walmart, Target, etc., are struggling to compete. The same goes for the major internet companies, such as Google and Facebook. Amazon’s robots can handle an arbitrary number of different product lines, in quite small quantities, down to even one unit, and can do so at a “wage” of fifty cents an hour. Novelty Goods, Toys, and Gifts, to take one instance, can no longer justify a separate mail-order vendor, any more than they would justify a separate Post Office, or a separate express company, or a separate banking system. Amazon takes goods on deposit, at the seller’s risk, and sells and fulfils them. Once a potential customer knows the proper name of something he is buying, he can easily add it to a shipment of household necessaries. The day of the little “buy stuff which anyone could buy, wholesale, and resell it, retail, to customers on the internet, on your own website, with your own VISA merchant account” business is over.

Every manufacturer will have a direct connection with Amazon, and will ask hard questions of anyone who wants a dealership franchise. Specifically, tell us about your walk-in traffic, and why you aren’t going to be cannibalizing our 7-11 business, or our Walgreen’s business, or our Kroger’s business, or our Target business, or our Amazon business, and further be prepared to enter into a performance bond that in the event of your going out of business, unsold inventory will not be sold to a liquidator, or anything like that.

There are a few ways a small mail order/internet vendor can remain viable. He can acquire his inventory “on the scrounge,” by visiting garage sales, etc. Consumer protection laws tend to take a stern view of any attempt to impose a contract by stealth on the ultimate consumer, and if something is really well and truly used, the owner is commonly free to sell it for two cents to whoever will haul it away. This method works better for books and other media than it does for most other products. Alternatively, a small mail order/internet vendor can actually manufacture something, and sell it. Outside of the special case of books and other media, Amazon is not, as yet, capable of manufacturing small quantities of this, that, and the other thing. The catch is that a small vendor with an essentially incoherent inventory is not likely to have the equipment and expertise to make anything either.

The kind of “incidents” which KlearGear has been involved in are probably a byproduct of the “coffin corner.”

Looking over KlearGear’s website, their merchandise seems irretrievably trashy. They invite you to decorate your office cubicle with items saying that you are still five years old. Years ago, when I was a GTF, and had an on-campus office in consequence, I put up a print of _The Man with the Golden Helmet_ (formerly attributed to Rembrandt) on the door, and a print of Vermeer’s _Girl with a Pearl Earring_ on the inside wall. I had bought both prints at a sale in the student union building. Nowadays we live in less spacious times, and someone with a modest salary of five or ten thousand dollars doesn’t rate an office. The appropriate means to decorate a cube or a locker would be to download the pictures from the internet, and print them off on ordinary paper using an ink-jet printer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rembrandt_(circle)_-_The_Man_with_the_Golden_Helmet_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring

I guess I’ll never order anything from klear Gear,they are extortionist