...And for these reasons I have ONLY used Sue Heim's framing
services. And I might add that I get nothing but compliments and
gasps of how great
my large French posters are framed, and my double-matted (acid free,
of course) bamboo style frames for my tropical posters. I've always
thought the
best indicator of how well Sue frames a poster is how excited she
gets when she sees the posters I bring to her. That excitement
reveals that she is a collector
herself which informs her framing. Let's be to the point; Sue was a
collector before she was a framer and her bias toward caring for
posters has always
informed her framing. I doubt these WHOLESALEPOSTERFRAME folks give
two GD's about anything but their pocketbook. So I am comforted by
the fact that sure,
Sue makes dollars doing the great framing she does, but it would make
no sense for her to possibly compromise the care of any poster. In
doing so, she would be
compromising her own integrity as a collector sworn by blood (okay,
maybe acid-free blood) to uphold the care and proper reverence of
movie poster art.
It amazes me how collectors who will spend thousands of dollars on
posters will then skimp and go the cheapest route with framing.
Perhaps you shouldn't judge
a book by it's cover, but keep in mind, the cover is what protects
the book. So it follows that a cheap 'cover' doesn't protect the
words within as well as a sturdier one
would, nor do cheap frames give the highest care to the posters
inside. Shocking, I know.
I have never regretted a dime I've spent on Sue's superlative framing
for anything from a lobby card to a 3-sheet. And if anyone wants me
to email them pictures of
some examples of Sue's fantastic work feel free to drop me a line.
Signed,
Happy Framing Customer Patrick
In Hollywood...
On Jun 25, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Susan Heim wrote:
Hey Sean,
I'm surprised you would even mention it since you have gotten
your Archival and Economy frames from me for a few years now. By
the way, My frames are called "Archival", not theirs because
theirs are not full archival frames even with the acid free backing.
Well, you will notice the deal with Wholesale Poster Frames is
that it isn't real plexiglass and it is a frame kit that you have
to assemble. If you read carefully, it is plastic covers. It is
called styrene in the industry and it is very thin. It's the stuff
that can stick to the face of your poster over time. It comes
rolled up in a tube to you with your four frame leg kit. The
foamcore is scored in thirds, for the larger frames, so it can
fold up in the box. They claim it is UV filtered and I have one in
my possession from a customer who mistakenly bought one and
inspected it. Anyone can claim UV filtering, even with 1% UV glaze
on it. It has discolored over time and gets that opaque look that
low grade plastics tend to get over time. It is a semantics issue
and they use it to their advantage. They even claim they had it
specially manufactured for just their purposes, but no one in the
legitimate framing industry has ever heard of the trademark they
mention. All baloney, if you ask me.
They are not custom framers. They sell all kinds of stuff at
other venues They use to be called Zove designs and sold
everything on Ebay including short band radios and, all of a
sudden, a glut of plastic frames. You know, the kind you can get at
the video store with plastic snap on legs, a piece of thin plastic
sheeting and a piece of cardboard with a plastic snap hanger on the
back. One of our Mopo members who orders their frames from me
called me to ask if I was operating under a different name on Ebay
as their listing had a picture of my frame store lobby in it. They
had gone to my website and taken the photos and text from my
website and used it in their auctions. I immediately emailed them
and, very nicely, suggested that, while imitation is the sincerest
form of flattery, I would rather they not use my pictures and text
"Protect Your Investment Now" to sell their plastic frames with
cardboard backings. I offered them my phone number to call for
advice on their frames. They called me and said they weren't a
framer and just bought items at closeout to resell on Ebay. They
said the guy they bought the frames from told them they were UV
filtered but that after my email to them they had called him and he
said he never told them anything like that. So, they said they
would change their listing, removing my pictures and text. Never
really apologized for taking them to begin with. They did change
their text, but only slightly, still with the intent to defraud
customers by saying things in their listings that just weren't
true. Then they must have sold all that junk off and went away.
About two months later, they show back up on Ebay with this
frame kit and they have changed their name to Wholesale Poster
Frames, my byline on every single one of my listings on Ebay at the
time. Not only had they done that, they had gone in a bought up
domain names of misspellings of my name
www.hollywoodposterframes.com. So, if one of my customers typed my
website name wrong, say with one L or one O, they would wind up at
their site. That is exactly what happened and how I found out about
it.
So, basically these people are jerks and crooks in my book.
They ship people a frame kit with a bunch of junk in it and tell
people their posters will be protected. They have a a lot of
negative feedback on Ebay all pertaining to the poor quality of the
frame.
They purposefully sell all of their frames on Ebay one dollar
under mine so that they come up first in the search. They sell a
frame that costs them about $8 to make for $49 and call it
wholesale. I think that's wrong.
The product in my archival and deluxe frames is Artcare, which is
not just 100% acid free foamcore, but it has ingredients put into
it during manufacture that neutralize the acids and I only use
genuine trademarked 1/8" thick UV filtered plexiglass.
So, that's the scoop. I have had customers from Ebay who have
written them to ask questions about the difference in my frames and
theirs and they have basically lied to the customers just to try to
make a sale. Luckily I have enough articles out there on the
internet to educate collectors and once someone has ordered a frame
of mine, it speaks for itself. I appreciate all the business that
comes from members of this group. I do try to put out a high
quality product to protect your posters, truly protect them. Since
we don't build a profit margin on them, you can't even compare our
custom frames to their kits.
Sue
www.hollywoodposterframes.com
(800) 463-2994
----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Linkenback
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] 14 x 36
Has anyone here tried www.Wholesaleposterframes.com?
I see they offer an archival insert frame (UV plexi with acid-free
foamcore) for only $41.99
Certainly a great price, but I'm not sure about overseas shipping.
Original Message
>From: MoPo List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Vaughn K.Mann
>Mornin' All,
>Michael, I wished you had sent him to this auction. Not store
bought, but.........
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&category=197&item=170231345870
Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at
www.filmfan.com_______________________________________________________
____________How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a
message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] the BODY of
your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is
solely responsible for its content.
Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at
www.filmfan.com_______________________________________________________
____________How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a
message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] the BODY of
your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is
solely responsible for its content.
Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at
www.filmfan.com_______________________________________________________
____________How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a
message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] the BODY of
your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is
solely responsible for its content.
Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
___________________________________________________________________
How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List
Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L
The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
