I have never used Sue personally, being on the other side of a large exanse
of very expensive water, but have recommended her to many American
friends/customers based on what the people I trust have told me, who have
all been extremely satisfied, and a couple of direct communications we have
had.
There are actually very few people that I would recommend without personal
experience,
so take that for what you like.
Phil
Sent by smoke signal from Soldiers Point
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Frames-Read before you Buy!!
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
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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>
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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.
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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>
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