I can understand your need to defend your turf (Pat), but to try and kill the messenger is very unfair. Most of the items in your product line are from other suppliers that offer the product lines to the general public (you have in some cases added /or combined item and added your spin on them for the framing industy). I, like John, have purchased item from the original company and used them in their orignal form. I'm in no way tring to say your product line is not very good, but you must agree some of these product have just been re-packaged with you instructions. We have purchased most of your products because they are a set of tools we could use, but the DVD disk (I purchased) was to much a sales tool for you and not a instructional step by step tool to use the products. I have to state again--The products were not developed (for the most point) in your lab but you give them a new life in the framing industry and many of these items can be purchase on the open market (for less) in the quanity the framer needs for their job. You have given our industry a great service. But that service is to package products and you should not be so quick to jump on someone , who like you, has been in this industry for years and was only telling the truth that the framer should look at everything before purchasing a product. Not everyone has the same skills and might not to be able to master this one.
I really have to wonder what your objection is here? That I have brought really good, helpful ideas to the framing industry?.....or that I have been able to do it using my own methods of use with products I have found from other companies....and am making a little money while I'm at it?
It is true that you can buy larger quantities of the items in my kits that will cost less by the piece, but if you break a kit down and then try to purchase everything in it (if you can find it all) you would be paying a lot more for the same kit than you would by buying it from me. Not to mention the extra shipping cost for each individual company you would have to purchased from.
As far as your statement about my DVD goes, it is quite apparent that you haven't watched it you would know that there is 90 minutes of demonstrations on it. Anyone who really has the DVD and has watched it would also know that one of the first things I say in the Tool Tutorial section is that I did not invent the fabric mounting tools that are in my kits. Avery Dennison did. But for some reason you and JRB are trying to make people believe that I am trying to deceive them. The fact is that the two tools are only a small portion of what makes my systems work.
Between the 3 DVD's that I now have, there is 210 minutes of demonstrations between them....and a good portion of the demonstrations have nothing to do with the kits. My instructions of methods of use are what people are buying when they purchase an Attach-EZ kit....and also the fact that they don't have to spend hours on line to try to find the product they need to use my methods to mount 3D art. The DVD shows how to use all the items in the kit, and is what makes it worth the cost to most frame shops. Time is money and you may have enough time to scoured the inter-net for individual product parts, but most framers don't. Not to mention the additional cost for shipping on each individual part, which you would have to pay to each company in order to get all the items in the kits.
It has cost me thousands of dollars to create the 3 DVD's and the instruction booklets that come in all my kits, and there are some who have used my trademark name to sell their knock offs for years. These same companies have deceived people into thinking that they were buying an Attach-EZ kit...so yes I am defensive and territorial when it comes to my company. I realize that not everyone is going to like my methods or how I go about creating products, but why must you try to keep me from doing business? What makes what you, who are selling other companies products to your customers, or any of the book publishers who are selling how to books into the framing industry, any different from I do? We are all out for the same thing...to make living.
To those who really don't have anything to learn and can do it better by themselves I will say this....please don't buy any of my products or my DVD's. You will not like anything I have to offer. For those who are new to the industry or just want to find easier ways to do labor intensive jobs, call me. Most people will tell you that you will be glad you did.
Just for the record, this tread is about EZ-Fix & Fill. Sorry that it has gone so far off track.