Pressing this button will cause high-intensity LED incandescent flashlight to activate.

How can you have an LED incandescent light? A white LED is flourescent.

Why is it that companies don’t offer hardly any photos of their products on their websites? I will never understand this. Do you realize how often this is? They want to sell product but there is little to nothing available to look at.

iBeam, for instance, offers their watch with or without datestamp (only in the men’s), in either Silver or Gold, and with a leather strap in either brown or black, or a bracelet in either Silver or Gold, in either men’s or women’s. And on top of that, they seem to make a few other models for women. This makes for quite a few different configurations.

But they offer no large, sharp photos of the watches in all of these configurations – just a couple of tiny little photos of only the face in only a couple configurations. I want to see nice large, sharp photos of ALL angles of the watches – I want to see detail: the front (with and without the glass open, and with and without LED shining), of the side (with and without the glass open), and the back, and perhaps even the top where the LED resides. But in these photos, I also want to see the watch with the straps and bracelets. Without any photos of the case it comes in like what was available on the Gadgeteer, this makes for at least eight photos per watch. I want to see all these photos in each of the ten or more configurations.

The photos must be large, sharp, and available. And you can’t rely on other sites to do this for you. I say to any company: If YOU make the product, YOU are responsible for the photos (and specs for that matter (at least iBeam offers those)) and for making them available on YOUR website.

It just never ceases to amaze me how companies and retailers will try to sell product but they don’t offer any photos so that people can SEE what the products look like or which configurations they’re available in, so that people can determine what they would even want. Or they don’t even make the configurations they say exist, available for purchase. For example, I like the idea of the Gold Deluxe version of this watch with the Gold bracelet, but not only is there no photo of it with the bracelet (iBeam doesn’t even have these photos, or even good ones at that, and they’re the ones that make the watch!), but none of the retailers have them either or even offer the gold bracelet as an option on their websites, even though iBeam says it’s available. Being able to see photos of all possible configurations and angles, and then having the products in stock, and then making these options available for me to choose online when ordering, will ensure that a sale is made. How do you expect to get the right version of your product (or any version of your product) into my hands as a consumer if I can’t see it or don’t even know it exists?

Even big corporations and retailers make this blunder often (or they don’t offer detailed specs of their products, which is equally bewildering), but big or small, it just makes for an incredibly frustrating and failed shopping experience.

Photos are as close to seeing a product in person as one can get, without actually seeing it in person. I can’t and won’t buy, if I can’t see. Shopping involves sight more than anything, especially online, therefore people need to SEE what it is you’re selling. Photos help achieve this.

Two plus two is…

End of rant.

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