Well, before this year's Targa West, Ashley Westwood (Ashley Westwood Photography) replied to a sponsorship proposal I had emailed. I agreed to carry his logos on my rally car in return for photos and some video of us in the event. After many emails back and forth, his partner, Patrick Stirling with whom Ashley (allegedly) runs a business called "The Garage Journal" (The Garage Journal) provided me their logos which we ran on the car for the event.

So, come Targa West, no sign or contact from Ashley Westwood, no sign of him during the event and no contact after. Also emails I sent to them after the event enquiring where my photos etc were have goine unanswered.

It seems to me that there was no intention by them to honour our deal. I know that Ashley occasionally frequents local events like the McRae Rallysprints and MC Sprint Championship....my advice is to avoid any deals with these guys.

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No Subarus currently owned

thank you for having the balls to name and shame.

this is needed more often

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[I]Personal chef[/I]

Yep...as far as I'm concerned an agreement is an agreement...and they have had over 4 weeks to reply to me...but nothing!

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No Subarus currently owned

good on you for reporting this. they have benifited by having your car belt around showing off thier logo, and got nothing in return. only fair that you get online and bag them out.

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Doing it for all the wagons out there

Cool, wedding season coming up, time inundate him with a few fake ones.

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Fuck your signature

^lol!

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Hate seeing photographers giving the trade a bad name.

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post up his photos using your own watermark
he'll come knocking soon enough

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No offence but having a logo on a car that's going ridiculously fast isn't really worth doing photos and videos for. Doesn't bring any traffic back to a photographer or any future work. Totally understand if you have agreed over emails with what each other is getting but to name and shame is going pretty far, especially the garage journal. I've taken a screen shot of this and sent it to ashley for ya tho.

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Whether it's 'worth doing' in your opinion isn't the point. If a deal was brokered and not upheld, then this thread is entirely valid in my views.

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