Tabberone's Hall of Shame - Hancock Fabrics

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Hancock Fabrics
Hall Of Shame Member
Added August 17, 2007

Hancock Fabrics becomes the first national chain fabric outlet to join these ranks. Unlike their national competitors, to date, Hancock Fabrics has crossed over to the dark side.

On its web site, Hancock Fabrics lists a number of fabrics manufactured and distributed by Sykel Enterprises, another member of the Hall of Shame. The collegiate fabrics contain a warning statement that sounds like it came from the livid lips of that fruitcake, Sy Garfinkel, president of Sykel Enterprises.

"PLEASE NOTE: The licenses for these College products are for personal use only. They are not for resale. Manufacturing of any finished product for resale is not allowed. For this reason each customer is limited to a maximum number of 3 teams per order."

Now it becomes more apparent why Hancock Fabrics is in chapter eleven bankruptcy. Hancock Fabrics is being run by morons (no insult to any morons intended). In fact, we have a rare group picture of their board of directors to the right.
Hancock Fabrics Directors

First, there is no license for those fabrics. As we pointed out to the idiot running Sykel Enterprises, the agreement between Sykel and the colleges is not binding upon a third party who is not a signatory. But, Sy Garfinkel, yo-yo extraordinaire, doesn't get it. Or. doesn't want to. He even threatened us with a lawsuit! He had his lacky, Darren Cohen at Reed Smith threaten us with a law suit for "hunbdreds of thousands of dollars"!
Second, there is no license, period, for fabric sold at retail. None. A manufacturer can place whatever they want on the selvege but it isn't legally binding upon the purchaser.
Hancock's attempted to reinforce this silly policy by starting a Q&A blog wherein they repeat the same tripe. The first question appears to be a "tease" question that was fabricated to start the blog. They haven't answered to really important question yet.
Third, Manufacturing of finished products for resale from licensed fabric is allowed. We can cite a court case supporting this; Precious Moments vs La Infantil, 1997. Hancock Fabrics cannot cite anything prohibiting it except unsupportable legal jargon and their unjustified fear of Sy Garfinkel's and Sykel Enterprises.

Does Hancock Fabrics want to sell collegiate fabrics so badly they will kiss Sy Garfinkel's ass? Really? Or did Sy threaten to throw a tantrum if you didn't do it his way? Do you really think he can afford to lose your business? What about integrity, Hancock Fabrics? What about being truthful?

As we say on our Sykel Enterprises Hall of Shame page:

Hey, Sy! Sy Garfinkel Threatens To Sue Us!
Kiss this!

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http://www.hancockfabrics.com/product/iMainCat/4560/iSubCat/4571/iProductID/25308/25308.html

Rebuttals
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If you, or your company, have been referenced on these pages, and you would like the chance to post a rebuttal, we will post your rebuttal (provided it is in good taste) so others can read it. The rebuttal must be submitted in a format that can easily be converted into HTML. We reserve the right to alter the rebuttal to make it more readable. However, we will not alter the content (unless there is offensive material to be removed). We also reserve the right to comment on any rebuttal received. Emails protesting the content of this web site may be treated as rebuttals by us at our discretion.
We made this offer a very long time ago and as of September 2008, only AnimieHot.com, in our Hall Of Shame, and Charlotte Perman (Sevenarts in our Hall Of Shame) have chosen to submit a formal rebuttal.