QC photo guide
Every image on this site is a seller listing photo. None are warehouse QC photos. The difference matters more than it first looks.
The two kinds of image
A product photo is what the seller put on the marketplace listing. It was taken once, usually in good lighting, often of a sample rather than the specific unit you will receive. It is marketing material. Every image in this directory is this kind.
A QC photo — a warehouse quality-check photo — is taken by the agent after your specific item physically arrives at their facility. It shows that unit, with whatever variation, defect or difference it actually has. You only ever see these after you have bought something.
How to tell them apart
- Listing photos are usually styled: clean background, model shots, consistent lighting, sometimes a flat mockup of a graphic.
- QC photos are usually plain: the item on a warehouse floor or table, uneven lighting, often with a tag, label or measuring tape in frame.
- If a set of images is perfectly consistent in colour and framing, you are almost certainly looking at seller material.
This site does not display a “QC available” badge on any item, because the source listings carry no inspection evidence tied to a specific unit. No badge here means no 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 rather than a photo of the printed item.
- What is actually included. Accessory and set listings frequently show more in the photo than the listing sells.
- Hardware and stitching detail. On jackets especially, these are the parts that look different in QC photos later. Note what the listing claims now so you have something to compare against.
What a QC photo still cannot tell you
Even a real warehouse photo is 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.
On this site specifically
Images are the ones the source listing itself references, stored on this site. 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.