And We Were Worried !?

[Chas]

Chas,
If I am understanding correctly, your objection is not to Mr Jackson getting paid, per se, but that none of the revenues are actually going to support the causes that the tartans represent. Is this accurate?

Do clans or clan societies get a cut of the revenue from the sale of their tartan? If they do, I am not aware of it. In the tartan business, like every other business, everyone down the line pays and gets paid. If the person with the rights to a certain product, design or resource makes profits and chooses to share those profits with a cause, it is most noble, but hardly required.

My $0.02

I have no objection to Mr Jackson making a profit - that is business. My objection is that he leads people into the belief that somehow by buying or wearing the named tartan 'the cause' will benefit. If this were true he would have said so.

The 'Red Hackle' tartan stated that all profits will go to the Black Watch museum. We know up front that there is a cause and that the cause will directly benefit from our purchase.

If we were to buy one of his tartans and wear it as a kilt the only benefit to the cause would be when we told others about the tartan thus highlighting the cause. But if we believe in the cause we can tell people about it without buying anything.

I think at best, Mr Jackson is misleading everybody.

Regards

Chas

[guardsman]

Yamaguchi tartan looking good for night clubbing,is it fluorescent by any chance