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Re: NEON- Tube benders Assoc.



In a message dated 96-10-20 10:00:03 EDT, you write:

>When buyers have the garantee that whatever is happening the sign will
>be placed on their roof even when the local installer is going bankrupt
>I think that they will buy signs from members of that foundation. The
>foundation must have their own logo and only classified members can
>print that logo on their letter-head, and then there is a difference
>between the fligh by night installers and the installers with the
>garantee mark in thier letter-head. It's only an idea, but it is the way
>it works here in the Netherlands. Only the members of our national sign
>association have the logo of the sign association in their letter-head.
>Don't think that every buyer is ignoring that garantee of craftmanship.
>Only by doing this you can make a difference between companies and their
>attitude. Even a window painter or an air brusher should be a member of
>the association, but in seperate divisions of the association course.
>Training days for whatever the branche need is a follow up making the
>separation between decent installers and cowboys bigger and bigger.
>Beleve me (I know it is an ideal situation I want to create) but someone
>must make the first move.
>So, John if you don't think that I am too forwarded let's try to make
>the first move, as a association needs to have members.
>Let's ask all your members of this list hereby and they must give you
>that in apersonal reply to John:
Dirk:
Yes, this truly suggests the idea that I was starting to converge to in my
ruminations, and it's interesting that it works in The Netherlands. This is,
to my mind, the idea that works, and I would support it enthusiastically. 
Jeff Golin