(1) Exceptionally good catalogues and website information, especially detailed moulding profile view and sizing;
(2) Very welcome advice sheets on all sorts of framing topics;
(3)Top class web and telephone customer service;
(4) trade counter staff also extremely pleasant and helpful; and available - compare for example Arqadia's rather desolate display/waiting room where a wait of 5 minutes to see somebody is the norm;
(5) European sourcing ensures high quality mouldings; compare calamitous efforts by Arqadia/Simons/Wessex to source from Far East resulting in lower quality, difficult to cut mouldings but worst of all stock-outs even on standard certificate frame mouldings of 2 - 3 months!!
(6) I sadly miss the former trade counter experience in Birmingham and London which was the only "picture framers' shop" in the business; located just under one hour from Birmingham I now tend to use Centrado's weekly and reliable delivery service which also includes glass, for all my hardware etc which I might otherwise have scooped into a basket. Seeing mouldings in their entire length (when not wrapped!) was also very helpful. Wessex Leamington are only 25 minutes away so I often rely on them for one-off mount board orders and one-off mouldings for retail customers.
(7) Please, please use your influence to reform the FATG. There are at least a dozen framers in and around Banbury of whom only one is an FATG member (I lasted just one year).
(7) I don't fully
9 years ago
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