Fair Advertising ?

[SeniorTom]

I am looking for opinions as to whether anybody feels this is good advertising, or unfair advertising. I was looking for something a bit radical/like neon blue in a leather wrap so I went with the black blue impression shown in the photo. I attached another photo of what the wrap actually looks like, and to me, they look quite different. Seyberts does a professional job on the installation of the leather wrap, but I think the appearance doesn't match what coloring they advertise. What do you think?

 

[Hungarian]

I am looking for opinions as to whether anybody feels this is good advertising, or unfair advertising. I was looking for something a bit radical/like neon blue in a leather wrap so I went with the black blue impression shown in the photo. I attached another photo of what the wrap actually looks like, and to me, they look quite different. Seyberts does a professional job on the installation of the leather wrap, but I think the appearance doesn't match what coloring they advertise. What do you think?

Zoom it out to be a fair comparison

 

[Poolplaya9]

You need to do an equally zoomed in pic of the wrap you received for us to properly be able to compare them.

Based on the pics we do have, the blue in the website photo appears to be more in the cyan/electric blue range, and the wrap you received appears to be more in the royal blue range. Quite a bit different.

Slight shades of difference are always to be expected on these types of things due to lighting condition differences in each setting, how colors don't always show up perfectly true in photographs or on our screens, slight color differences between each batch of product, etc, but this is beyond that in my opinion and they are just very different "blues". I think there is enough difference to justify asking that they make it right in some way if you aren't happy with the different blue that you got.

 

[Mr Machine]

Different lighting for sure.
Take a photo of the cue in direct sunlight with your camera/phone set on HDR and see what you get.

But, 43 years in advertising tells me that the photo was digitally (& maybe innocently) tweaked “to make it pop”

Back in the BC days, that’s before computers, all the work was done on set so the camera would capture the best image possible. Any enhancement would have been done by hand and cost $$$.

Now it’s so easy to shoot in HDR or a preset mode, you don’t even have to trouble yourself with pushing that vibrance slider on your post processing software.

Is the cue misrepresented?
Hard to say. A very gray area.
If the OP is dissatisfied, return it!

Disclaimer: I have no idea what Seyberts does, nor do I care.
I am just voicing general trends that I have noticed.

FWIW, I refer to autumn as “vibrance & saturation season “

 

[GoldCrown]

Looks good regardless.... can you accept/get use to it? If not contact Seyberts and talk about it... Do not play with it..no chalk in case of return. You have to be happy with what you buy...

 

[Bob Jewett]

Um.... I'm thinking of the picture of a typical fast food burger and the reality of the pitiful, wilted thing you usually get. "Sir, could you please make me one like the picture?"

If I were to order from the first image and get what's in the second image, I would not be too surprised. It would not bother me enough to send it back, but I have near zero concern about the appearance of the cue I play with. As mentioned above, someone probably turned up the "pop" knob -- lots of steps between the physical item and any image you see from a website.

(Related to which, it seems that some social media platforms are running posted videos through AI enhancement tools. They end up looking prettier/sharper but not quite real.)

 

[SeniorTom]

Different lighting for sure.
Take a photo of the cue in direct sunlight with your camera/phone set on HDR and see what you get.

But, 43 years in advertising tells me that the photo was digitally (& maybe innocently) tweaked “to make it pop”

That photo is in direct sunlight, you can notice it lying down on the driveway, and it was a cloudless sky above. What it looks like to me is, the advertised photo was ideally done, and then enhanced to make the blue pop out like it is, and like I desired to have, as I was looking for something that really popped out the appearance of the rap.

 

[middleofnowhere]

I am looking for opinions as to whether anybody feels this is good advertising, or unfair advertising. I was looking for something a bit radical/like neon blue in a leather wrap so I went with the black blue impression shown in the photo. I attached another photo of what the wrap actually looks like, and to me, they look quite different. Seyberts does a professional job on the installation of the leather wrap, but I think the appearance doesn't match what coloring they advertise. What do you think?

What was their response to your complaint?

 

[SeniorTom]

Here is a photo I took on my pool table in LED lighting, which really brings out colors nicely, as you can see from the q-tech cue I am comparing it to. You can see the red on the the q-tec is vibrant and alive, as opposed to the wrap on the cue that is of question. Actually, in the original photo I am even enhance it a little bit to bring the color out, which I shouldn't have done. The photo below shows the wrap under a LED light, which would somewhat enhance it again. Like I have mentioned before, I was looking for something a bit outside the envelope, so to speak, in terms of color, because the cue needed some color vibes. While playing at the pool hall, I brought this stick as my gamer for that day, and not a single comment was made about the wrap by anybody I was gaming with.

 

[fjk]

I'd say it looks great. Not exactly like the advertised image, but they seldom are. Close enough is my opinion.