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  1. Are sign professionals just giving up?

    We lost this battle a couple years back and I really think this was the straw that broke me. I was very excited to work on this. Beautiful new building on main road. Excellent architecture....this would have been a high dollar sign that was well deserving of the money that it took to build the...
  2. Are sign professionals just giving up?

    its a losing battle that at my age do not care to fight any longer. I have come from the era where my art sold the sign......no longer is that true. Price trumps design...Friends Trump professionals. For the past few years i always do a side by side. my layout next to their thoughtless bundle...
  3. Paying to Play

    everything has gotten out of control. everything is so difficult now. Im older than a lot of you guys and I have the luxury of doing this but we dropped all federal bidding and all large contractor bidding. So sick of jumping thru hoops and wasting time. there is no sense in people getting...
  4. Need Help Wall wrap or banner vs Mural - need advice...

    why waste money on a damaged wall other than stretching banner over it. that is the only thing I would do IF anyhting were to be done at all
  5. Designs from Cricut: Cloud based could be a nightmare

    I love it! Those customers that choose to allow "others" to design their stuff instead of professionals, they will be driven thru pure hell to get me what I want to produce signage. It happened a couple weeks ago with a "young designer". The nice part is its all on their designer to get me what...
  6. Computer to show proofs

    yes print it only! NEVER let a customer think they can sit there all day and play "change the art" game all day
  7. Grimco buys Pioneer!!??!!???

    My last order with Grimco was about 4 or 5 weeks ago (I think) 2 weeks to get oracal 751 in and they sent 651. Just recently did it to another customer here with his vinyl. The line is getting thin out there Frank has been doing this since Ive been in business Im sure for the right price Frank...
  8. Vinyl vendor

    I would like to update my comments. US Cutter is the bomb and they have gotten quicker. They are my go to since dumping dumping Grimcos ass
  9. Flexi 10.5 Build 1806 ceased working on 2 computers simulat

    are you guys running updated on your window computers? if so cut that crap off!
  10. How is business so far this year?

    this is the busiest since 09. Im only taking large jobs, small ones will be sent away. We have stopped all contactor bid jobs, federal bids, waste of time and if you do get them they are stressful. I landed 2 nice jobs about 2 months ago and it took them a long time to proceed with doing these...
  11. Opinion I'm not sure what to do..........................

    Dont waste your breath. Let them quote and have at it. Gemini does same thing, Fellers, Grimco. None of them care anymore its all about money
  12. But really...how long or how to test?

    if its a year old and kept inside you should be fine
  13. Vinyl vendor

    looks like they cater to the cricut and silouette folks Grimco-i dumped them forever uscutter-good prices gotta wait a little bit sign mart-Great prices but they always wanted to call and tell me vinyl comes from manufacturer and would not ship till I responded to that message Fellers-just...
  14. 3,000 small aluminum signs needed

    for stuff like this we use super signs in auburn, al SuperSigns Wholesale Screenprinting on Coroplast, Magnetics, Aluminum, and Styrene these guys do great work and quick
  15. Flexi 10-10.5 Pro Discontinued

    several years ago I had a dongle go bad on flexi. Signwarehouse would not send another one to replace without charging a huge amount. SAI would not help because I bought it from signwarehouse. What did I do? Downloaded a cracked version and ran it for a few years. Of course I dont run cracked...
  16. Rant Crazy Prices

    Grimco sucks I just completely ended my realationship with them, last order took 2 weeks to get vinyl and 19mm PVC, when the vinyl came it was 651 instead of 751, that did it for me. So Im on the hunt for new vinyl supplier. My last supplier was advantage sign, great prices, quick...
  17. Discussion When to purchase a bucket truck.

    NEVER base your future on national installs and do not start out with a top of the line truck, buy used. Dont forget mainternance and repairs on these things can suck if you cant do it yourself. I would definitely lease a truck for a couple years before i made this plunge
  18. Neep Help With Repaint Of Old Metal Sign

    if this were my job, I would strip sign with stripper, clean it off, wash it. Prime with 2 part epoxy and spray latex on top and then letter it....it is a very cool sign and a satin latex would be awesome as a background. I would also lay that sucker down so that stripper could stay on longer
  19. Tell me something.....

    we can get PVC locally but it is not good stuff and routes like crap. We are having to get away from it. the PVC after routing had the damn texture of sandblasting. I miss the PVC back 12 years ago it was high quality stuff
  20. Tell me something.....

    How does Grimco, who is buying everyone out, make me wait 2 weeks to get some 3/4" pvc. How does this happen? There is nothing good that will come of this company they are getting too damn big too damn quick
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