If I am not mistaken, I have been using Sue for more than ten years now. she is a treasure and her products are top quality. She is also one other fellow collector that loves posters as much as I do. Best Philipp
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Susan Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:21:53 To:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Frames-Read before you Buy!! Thanks Michael, Since you live in my area, you have the possibility of framing your posters in the over 3500 frame samples I offer on my wall here in L.A. For shipping purposes, I can only offer two different frames, both of aluminum, but very high quality custom designer line of aluminum. I only offer these two types of framing because shipping can be very hard on frames and these particular frames are very sturdy. As many of you know they are very nice looking also and they do the job, they protect your posters. They are also offered at wholesale cost, so this is one little niche of my business that I don't make a profit on. I make my profit on large volume jobs I do for hotel chains, restaurants, department store chains, etc. and Mr. Tupy's frames, of course!! Sue www.hollywoodposterframes.com <http://www.hollywoodposterframes.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Michael Tupy <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU <mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Frames-Read before you Buy!! ...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 b! aloney, 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 fr! ames. 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 <http://www.hollywoodposterframes.com> 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 <http://www.hollywoodposterframes.com> www.hollywoodposterframes.com (800) 463-2994 ----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sean Linkenback To: <mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] 14 x 36 Has anyone here tried <http://www.Wholesaleposterframes.com> 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:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU ><mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> ] 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> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=197&item=170231345870 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com <http://www.filmfan.com> ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com <http://www.filmfan.com> ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. 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