Hi All,
What I did was to look in the Yellow pages for a sign shop wholesale
distributor. This is where the sign shops get their magnetic material.
Their service isn't anything to write home about but the price was like two
thirds less! They might ask you for a business name so be prepared.
Glen "Hurricane" Hernandez - off to Phoenix today!!
Going to B Stock for '00
>From: "Crooke John" <crooke_john@bah.com>
>Reply-To: "Crooke John" <crooke_john@bah.com>
>To: autox <autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: GOOD SOURCE FOR MAGNETIC NUMBERS MATERIAL
>Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 09:22:02 -0500
>
>I called a local sign shop and they wanted $40 for two sheets of blank
>magnetic material (1'x2' each)
>That's $10/square foot. (retch)
>
>Here's what I did:
>
>I went to http://www.beacongraphics.com/magnetic.html
>
>and ordered 24" x 10' 30 mil thick white material for $32. That's
>probably enough to make about 3-4 SETS of numbers, in your own personal
>font/typeface. I think I paid about $5 for shipping, and I got it in
>less than a week for less than $40 total. That's $2.00/square foot.
>That's more like it. :-)
>
>Personally, I didn't need all that material, so I cut it up into 2' x 2'
>sections and sold four of them at an event for $10 apiece (still 1/4
>what the sign place wanted - can you say hotcakes?) and so I got mine
>for free.
>
>If you do like I did, you could have free numbers too! No more excuses!
>
>John
>--
>John Crooke
>Crooke_John@bah.com
>
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