I am having some issues with my scanner, so as I wait for my printer software to reload—grrrr—I wanted to write a quick post about a discovery I made yesterday.  For some reason, my neighborhood is the constant target of solicitors who leave paper ads on the door.  I believe this is the work of a service, because I have seen one person placing multiple ads.  Now it isn’t the copious amounts of litter that I am protesting today.  It’s that one of the ubiquitous cleaning service postcards featured a picture that I just noticed on my competitor’s website.

 It only took a few minutes of digging to find out:  Yep. It’s a stock photo.  ON A DECORATOR’S WEBSITE. 

Now before you get all, “We have come to expect faked -up photos in the advertising world.  Since when does a Big Mac look like it does on the side of the tractor trailer?”  Let me say:  This is unconscionable.  This is flat out lying.  This makes me sick to my stomach that someone would be out there, right here in the Metro Region, passing work off that is clearly not hers. 

And for the record: Every Image On My Business Website (DecorateYourSpace.net) Is MINE.  EVERY.SINGLE.ONE.