Who else uses bandit signs to market their services?

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Originally Posted by BurlyGuys

George I'd have to go through my check register to get the name of who I uses. If I remember I will do that when I get back to Michigan.

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No problem. i can see why you get a lot of immediate business with yours. No hype or anything. Simple and straight to the point.

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Originally Posted by BurlyGuys

I've ordered twice now, and the price was $3.00 each for 100 signs, printed one side blue on white approximate size is 24" by 36". Included was sign posts, but I post mine directly on telephone poles. Put the sign posts in my shred pile. :-)

Yes, I place them at busy intersections and in front of places like Home Depot.

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That's a nice size. I know of the companies I was thinking of and have booked marked only go to 18x24

Yeah a lot of them are on telephone/utility poles. Most use zip tiles or other similar things to attach them.

Nice idea for Home Depot. Will keep that in mind.

In order to make your signs stay up longer, I will tell you to do what I do. Don't make it simple for them to do a snatch and grab to dispose of your sign. I go out with a stepladder and a screw gun, attaching them to telephone poles about 8 feet up. Increases visibility, harder to yank down.

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Originally Posted by Gravitar

Alright, good to see my city is not the only one. It's funny to see code enforcement's truck bed full of garage sale signs on Sunday afternoons.

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Yeah Grav a lot of cities don't like these signs. But for most, if they have ordinances on the books enforcement seems to be spotty at best.

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Originally Posted by BurlyGuys

In order to make your signs stay up longer, I will tell you to do what I do. Don't make it simple for them to do a snatch and grab to dispose of your sign. I go out with a stepladder and a screw gun, attaching them to telephone poles about 8 feet up. Increases visibility, harder to yank down.

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Yeah, most guys here do the same thing, but most use hammer and nails. I like the screw gun idea better though...quicker! lol

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Originally Posted by BurlyGuys

Shutterfly doesn't seem to have an easy way to do it. I watched the video on how to do it from photobucket but I really didn't want to create a photobucket account to do this. Turns out I already had a photobucket account I had forgotten about!

Anyway, here is a pic. I considered doing a full color logo instead of this but that would have greatly increased the cost. Also would have reduced "readability" for people driving by. The website I ordered from said blue on white was the easiest to read and got the best results, so that is what I ordered.

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Looks good. Can't tell you how many times I have seen a sign, any thing from a yard sale sign, to full graphics on a vehicle, and it's hard to read. Other day I saw a car with a RE web address. Shade of color wasn't much different than the car itself. Made it hard to read.

Then you get the yard salers making signs with pencils. Yeah, good luck with that.

Orange county florida. Dateline 2012. Post too many bandit signs and get rapid fire calls back from the city. The calls wont stop until you come in and pay the fine. leave a text contact instead. haha

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Originally Posted by wavecrazed

Orange county florida. Dateline 2012. Post too many bandit signs and get rapid fire calls back that wont stop calls that won't stop until you come in and pay the fine. leave a text contact instead.

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What won't stop, exactly?

That's funny, I think you edited your post as I was commenting on it. NOW I understand! :-)

The county has a system that calls the number repeatedly and wont stop lol.

at one point i had 10,000 up on poles they"d pull em down i"ld put them up Sandy took down more than code enforcement

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Originally Posted by Libertytow

at one point i had 10,000 up on poles they"ld pull em donw i"ld put them up sandy took down more than code enforcement

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10,000? Liberty, you're my new hero!

I saw a fistfight over these a couple weeks ago. A guy was putting these up advertising his Xmas light installation service, and someone was going around every morning with a can of blue spraypaint covering up the phone #. Not yanking down the sign, mind you, but just ruining it. Well, the Xmas light guy laid in wait for him one morning, and I saw the spraypaint guy go up & spray the sign... Xmas light guy comes flying up in his pickup and jumps out yelling and flailing his arms.

Hilarity ensued.

I'd be jailed for beating him to a bloody pulp. Well, at least in my imagination.

BTW I have a standard answer for people who ask me what I'm doing when I'm either putting up my signs or shopping at Curbco.

I'm trying to feed my two little girls.

Always shuts them up, and they don't need to know my two little girls are domestic shorthairs.

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Originally Posted by BurlyGuys

BTW I have a standard answer for people who ask me what I'm doing when I'm either putting up my signs or shopping at Curbco.

I'm trying to feed my two little girls.

Always shuts them up, and they don't need to know my two little girls are domestic shorthairs.

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I'm soooooo stealing that answer.

And here's my two little girls:

http://imageshack.us/a/img202/7065/img00083s.jpg

Love it auminer!

As promised, the source where I bought the signs was yardsignwholesale.com.

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Originally Posted by BurlyGuys

As promised, the source where I bought the signs was yardsignwholesale.com.

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Thanks Burly for the information.

They are a bit more expensive from a company I have booked marked, but they offer bigger signs, so worth the extra price. Will get soon real soon. Thanks again.