How do y’all feel about this? This lady is always posting on the community facebook page selling desserts… she apparently has her own business. she always uses pictures from Pinterest to advertise them… as a baker, it just seems icky.
by SandyClappingCheeks
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Call it out and see how they react because maybe some users aren’t aware of Pinterest or reverse searching images. Using someone else’s work to mislead others is always a bad move. That’s just my opinion
False advertising, definitely icky. Reminds me of a woman I worked for (about two weeks) who would do the same thing but resell grocery store baked goods. Idk how it’s still in business.
It’s so clear these are not actual bakes, I wouldn’t engage her services anyway.
They always have an excuse that these are suggestions/inspiration pics of what they can do. The same thing happens in the photography community.
Plus making people pick up at the Walmart parking lot — there’s no records of someone gets sick from the food.
It’s just a whole bunch of red flags all over the place.
Start commenting on her ads asking to see real photos of her cooking, not stock images pulled off the internet.
I’d also look into reporting them because odds are they haven’t bothered getting the appropriate certifications for their area.
Freaking scammers, hate them!
lol at patriotic bakes in the first place. second of all, this stuff is like entry-level baking if even. like i’m sure some of the recipes you can find on the jello package. third, picking up fluff salad in a walmart parking lot is just weird.
Most of it looks disgusting so it’s odd that they’re stolen pictures.
seems like media illiteracy mixed with sketchy practice
It’s theft and makes me think they aren’t a good baker
We had this happen in my towns moms page. We have some very talented home cottage bakers and it really bothered me she would be posting Wilton stock images! Plus her work was NOT comparable to the images(I found her instagram) and I think it’s fair to only offer realistic expectations. I reported and we have a new rule that only your own work can be posted on business postings.
She’s violating copyright laws
How weird to use fake pictures for the most low effort dessert recipes on the planet
It’s be helpful for me. I’d just follow her link and make my own 😂
it’s shady because we want exactly what we see there. we are not sending pictures to them to use an inspiration like when making a cake. you post pics? i hire you for that exact items in the same containers too.
Just ick behavior and someone better put on blast for such behavior.
I feel that it’s disrespectful to the original bakers, as well as deceitful to their customers. It’s false advertisement, plain and simple. Even if they can recreate those desserts, those exact photos aren’t their own creations and they certainly didn’t get permission from the original owner. Overall, it’s slimy and I wouldn’t do business with them.
Now MAYBE if I gave them the benefit of doubt, they’re just ignorant about such practices and don’t realize that what they’re doing is ethically wrong. But regardless, that’s their problem and a lesson that they need to learn themselves. It’s not our duty to educate them.
By the way, I know a lot of people in the comments are saying that the desserts are disgusting looking. Obviously, that point is irrelevant. Giving their customers the false perception that they alone created these desserts is bad, no matter what there appearance may be.
Yeah, that feels unethical. I am a home baker who bakes things I’ve found off of Pinterest, but I use my own pictures to sell my own goodies. Which arguably are not that great of pictures, but my stuff doesn’t ever look like a Pinterest perfect dessert. Why set people up for expectations that I’m not gonna live up to? lol
I would say it is false advertising if the product she sells doesn’t look like the photos. It is still icky even if they do.
It’s gross, and also who is buying cake mix shit like this, the whole point of recipes like this is they don’t require any skills or talent and can be made with easily accessible/highly processed ingredients.
Bish, I’ll go to Safeway and get a tub of cool whip to slop this together myself if I want it.
This is happening in a lot of small business communities currently. You see it a lot in photography right now – people advertising using “inspo” photos but not their own photos. As a client, I would think it’s hard to get behind a photographer (or baker) posting what they hope they can do, not what they’ve proven they can do. It’s so lazy (and actually with photography it’s illegal too because you’re using someone else’s imagery wo their permission), interesting to hear it’s happening in other realms.
I’ve fallen for this before and was disappointed in the product I received. I generally think that if they could make something that looks like those pictures, they would post their own photos
I just ask if they are health department compliant
I just came across a FB friend’s post that did this almost verbatim. She is selling royal icing decorated cookies and she said something like “*DISCLAIMER* these are not my products! But I can make you some cookies just like these!”
Yeah, it’s weird.
Claiming someone else’s work to secure sales, it’s sad & false advertising no matter how you spin it. If they are actually able to accurately recreate these or even improve them, they should be confident to take and use their own pictures.
There’s a bakery in my town that also uses images off the internet. I was able to reverse-search a ton of them.
Plus there’s a lady on a Facebook group for my town selling “dessert cups” from her home. Not only does she not have a cottage food permit, what she’s selling isn’t even allowed under my state’s cottage food laws…
The goblin in me says you should screenshot the original photos on Pinterest, and comment them below the posts with “This you?? 👀”
I wouldn’t buy from a baker who’s not posting real pictures of the food they’ve made. Sounds like a set up for disappointment