California Cedar has fixed the most recent errors, which I mentioned were originally copied from here but done so in an erroneous manner (see this post for the details). This is further proof that CalCedar closely monitors this site for information, but never credits it.
From Palominobrands (Click)
I know it’s too much to expect an “I’m sorry” from them for the copying, but I thought maybe a “thank you” or some attribution at least for doing their error-checking for them, too. Maybe a check’s in the mail. I wonder what would happen if I actually sent them an invoice. 🙂 I don’t understand why it is so impossibly difficult for them to do their own work.
For a site that speaks so much about one’s “creative legacy”, I wonder what their’s will be.
Dear Sean,
this is bad! Clumsy marketing is not good, but stealing other people’s work is something else. This game of editing (thanks Michael, if your reading :-)) according to the information at your site looks like stupidity or mockery. It would have been nice, if Calcedar had hired some marketing people who knew what they were doing. This looks like the work of very young people with no knowledge of copyright, other people’s work or their feelings. Very saddening.
Kind regards
Henrik
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Thanks for your comments, Henrik. Maybe things will be different in the future.
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I’d like to think that this was the work of young, inexperienced staff, but I really don’t think it is. Berolzheimer was very quick to hide behind the “new employee” during the sock-puppeting incident that took place during the release of the first knock-off Blackwing, but his explanation always seemed bullshitty to me.
Everything that’s happened since then has only confirmed my suspicions about Berolzheimer and his motivations; he seems to be interested in the Blackwing from a business perspective only.
I was pretty excited about the Blackwing, and really liked the Palomino HBs themselves, before all this. Now, I refuse to use them, and I won’t give a penny to CalCedar — doing so would feel like I was rewarding their unscrupulous behaviour.
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I had been away from the pencil blogs for a while. Now when i read this… i wish I could throw out all my Calcedar pencils. The church has a “school supply project” so that may be the most charitable way to dispose of them. This presents a good opportunity to get back to American pencils — mainly Generals and JR Moon.
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