So customers want to know about your secret technique? That sounds familiar.

Good for you not revealing your uniqueness and for pricing your product in the range it belongs.

With all of that, watch out. Seems like a camera could be on its way to your shop at any moment!

Shirley

Setting up “dummy” cameras if you cannot afford the real thing? That’s so smart and a definite deterrence against unwanted photos.

Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts.

I am so glad I found this blog!

I have a commercial warehouse, not a brick-and-mortar store. I go to trade shows, do presentations to potential clients, etc., and I am CONSTANTLY asked “where do you get the stuff to put in the baskets”

EXCUSE ME? Why don’t you give me the secret manufacturing process to the product YOU’RE making and then we’ll talk…

I think it is extremely rude to even ask to take a picture, let alone take one on the sly.

However! If someone has a brick-and-mortar location, it would probably benefit them to draw up a policy (you can even have a paralegal do it inexpensively for you) with clear and LARGE signage stating that it is not permissable. I personally would recommend if someone does not have the $ to get closed circuit television installed to monitor theft in your store that they go to Radio Shack and purchase the “dummy” cameras (often only $20 each) to make it look like the establishment is monitored.

Just my two cents. Hope it helps.

The option you ask about sounds like it’s acceptable, but only as long as that policy works for you.

When you set up your Web site (my assumption is that you do not, as yet, have a site), you can begin distributing your business cards as an alternative. Then you’ll have people visiting your site and ordering there or by phone.