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What if everyone that goes into the grocery store is given a different price on the corn according to how much they spend annually?
It used to be that we all paid the same price for sign supplies. I call to inquire the "how much" on an item and they then ask for my account to see what they'll charge me.
Sure makes it hard to compete with those that are part of a buying group.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Charles Mingus Posts: 6958 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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We'd need a buying group that could compete with Fast Signs. I think they all use the same brands of everything and that lack of individuality is what would prevent us from ever being able to accomplish such a task.
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Finding supplies is getting difficult.I call to get a gallon of background white. First they want to know the name of my company. Then after the process of them sorting me out by my phone number and the town I live in, they eventually tell me they don't have any. I found one supplier on the west coast that could send me three quarts of bulletin white.That stuff is hard to find. I also just got another box of blasting rubber @ $19 a square foot(shipping included in that price) WoW.
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I buy my vinyl, dibond etc from a couple of local suppliers. They know me. And as far a paint I get it from Coast Air Brush or McLogan's in Los Angeles. Kinda sad you have a hard tm getting paint. Can you imagine if people couldn't get INK! The cartridges etc. for their printers. I could see that happening. I had to wait about a month and a half to get some 12 x 18 aluminum blanks.
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Wow, never thought I'd read something like that. Have you tried EBay or Amazon?
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