ibuy.com
Online ordering system that will allow anybody to create and order their own signs (see
www.esigns.com) but will let individual sign shops customize the base website with their own info so it looks like the shops personal site . There are several print brokers who do this now, it was inevitable that it started into the sign business.
In premise it will allow small shops to sell online and make money without actually having to produce the final product in-house. In reality it's just another step down the path that will eventually kill a majority of the bread and butter work a majority of shops rely on to pay the bills.
Hey, you asked for speculation....I give you speculation.
Edited to add: I have nothing against www.esigns.com or any other reseller. I don't have anything against the rebranded sites either. I just see small, one off orders as being what most shops are built on and that market segment will be gone in the next several years.