Product photos and QC photos
Every image on this site is a seller listing photo. None are warehouse inspection photos. The difference matters more than it first looks.
Two different kinds of image
A product photo is what the seller put on the marketplace listing. It is taken once, usually in good light, often of a sample rather than the exact unit you will receive. It is marketing material, and every image in this directory is this kind.
A QC photo — a quality-control or warehouse inspection photo — is taken by the agent after your specific item arrives at their facility. It shows that unit, with whatever variation or defect it actually has. You only ever see these after you have bought something.
How to tell them apart
- Listing photos are usually styled: clean or white backgrounds, model shots, even lighting, sometimes a flat digital mockup of a graphic.
- Inspection photos are usually plain: the item on a warehouse table or floor, uneven light, often with a tag, label or measuring tape in the frame.
- If a set of images is perfectly consistent in colour and framing, you are almost certainly looking at seller material.
This site shows no “QC available” badge on any item, because the source listings carry no inspection evidence tied to a specific unit. The absence of a badge here means no such evidence was found — not that inspection is unavailable on an agent platform.
What to actually look at in a listing photo
- Colour consistency across images. If the same garment looks noticeably different between two photos, the real colour is uncertain; treat the written description as the weaker signal.
- Whether the graphic is a mockup. A print that sits perfectly flat with no fabric distortion is often a digital mockup, not a photograph of the printed item.
- What is actually included. Accessory and set listings often show more in the photo than the listing sells.
- Hardware and stitching. On jackets especially, these are the parts that will look different in inspection photos later. Note what the listing claims now so you have something to compare against.
What even a real inspection photo cannot tell you
A warehouse photo is still a photo. It will not tell you fabric weight, how something drapes on a body, whether a colour is accurate under different light, or how it holds up after washing. It confirms that a specific item arrived and roughly what it looks like. That is genuinely useful, and it is also the limit.
How images work on this site
Images are the ones the source listing itself references. If an image fails to load, the card shows an explicit “Image unavailable” state — a different product's photo is never substituted in its place. You can always open the listing on HaulSpreadsheet to see the images in their original context.