A reader of ours pointed to this article at Soldier Systems "Copies Cost Canadian Charity" about the products from Canadian Tactical Gear website, 2 Cent Tactical, being copied and sold in the market without their knowledge. The bad thing really is that it deprives the Wounded Warrior Project charity the revenues with which it'll be able to support its projects as proceeds from the sale of the 2 Cent Tactical products are devoted to theirs.

I am writing this as we do watch out for situations like this when organisations working for really good causes have their revenue sources cut-off in the market by those selling counterfeit products of what their sponsors or patrons made for their benefit. One example was the "Before You Click 'Buy Now' To Get That Patch..." story we had in the middle of last year about unauthorized copies of the Medal of Honor Warfighter patches being sold by retailers in Asia and which usually target airsoft players, denying revenues for the Navy SEAL Foundation, Special Operations Warrior Foundation, and Tommy Challenge as 100% of the proceeds of the patches are devoted to them.

It is sad that the efforts of 2 Cent Tactical and the Wounded Warrior Project get frustrated by efforts like this to copy the work of others in order to make a quick buck. For Canadian airsoft players who want to buy the shemaghs from 2 Cent Tactical, it is best that they contact 2 Cent Tactical where to get these as they are also active in the Airsoft Canada forums.

We take liberty in copying the email of Ryan of 2 Cent Tactical to Soldier Systems about the situation:

As some of you may know outside of reviews 2 Cent Tactical does various little side projects like patches and shemaghs to raise money for Wounded Warrior Canada. These are not done with profit in mind in the least and were just something done to help out. I got an email from a friend who runs a store up here in Canada that he had been contacted and I might be interested in the email. It turns out another company has seen fit to attempt to sell my shemagh (the one bearing the maple leaf skull from my logo). Ignoring the fact that my design is being ripped off and someone is making money from it, the real piss off is that people may associate it with what we are doing. We plan to do another run of these and have them available at several retailers (more to be announced when they get ordered and make the journey to my office). These shemaghs will be sold having 30 percent of the sale price immediately go to towards Wounded Warrior. The rest just goes back into other patch designs for now with the eventual hope to be able to use all excess money for Christmas care packages for the guys heading outside the wire. I never set out to do this to make any money and I have striven to continue that as things have evolved. So if you are a store and you do get contacted by anyone but me to sell these things please do the right thing and get in contact with me instead. Also in order to distinguish our shemaghs from the ones that are currently ripping us off we will include a color matched logo patch with each shemagh sent to retailers.

I never really expected to have to write one of these but I am glad people in this industry have integrity and look out for each other.

If you need to get a hold of me try one of the following methods.

Ryan
2 Cent Tactical
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