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Sign company or wana be TV stars?

Moze

Moze

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eahicks said:
Yes they are notorious for being the "electrical sign Nazi's". If you even showed a picture of an electrical sign on your website and you weren't a licensed electrician, they would blast you for it. They were a-holes for some time about it.
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Yep, they did that to me. Years ago, I installed a very small set of interior back-lit letters. I worked along with a 25+ year Master Sign Electrician. Anyway, shortly after I had to streamline my services because I was getting so buried, so I stopped offering anything to do with electrical signs. It was a huge relief because anything to do with them was just time consuming and a pain in the butt compared to installing non-illuminated signs. So I was pretty happy to be done with all of that. Fast forward a bit and I got a pretty unfriendly letter from TDLR threatening some pretty hefty daily fines if the image wasn't removed within so many days. Turns out I forgot I had that ONE picture of those illuminated letters on my site.

Was Signs Manufacturing within their rights? Yes. But what struck me was that I had talked to a guy there on a few different occasions about assisting with installation work. They were all good conversations. Turns out he's the one that reported me to TDLR (you get a copy of the report which lists the complainant). So I don't know why he wouldn't just shoot me an email and say "hey man, that pic shouldn't be up". I'm pretty easy going. I would have happily removed it, especially since I have no desire to install electrical signs. I'm certainly out a threat to their business. I don't know, it just seemed pretty crappy.

Texas_Signmaker said:
Maybe someone should blast them for having Google ads using my company name
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Welcome to the club. They've been doing this with almost every sign company in the area for years. Google a local sign company and an ad will appear at the top of the page saying "Looking for an alternative to Xxxxxx Sign Company? Try Signs Manufacturing.".

I think it's pretty tacky advertising but it's their right, I guess.
 
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