"Unshippable A0 picture frames? Why, what does that mean?". That was the question we were asked in disbelief and incredulity while fielding a telephone inquiry from a young 
mum in Northcote. She said she was confused as to why our website said that we could not "post" a huge A0 black glass frame which she wanted. She just had had a baby, she explained, and couldn't possibly come down and pick up the frame, so she just wanted it shipped to her address. We did tell her that large glass frames cannot be shipped because most of the times these break or get damaged in transit, but she seemed to find it difficult to accept the explanation and kept suggesting and insisting on various shipping methods that ...
Of online stores prompts, disclaimers and warnings
Posted on Category: Picture Framing Industry InsightsBy:We will begin this picture frames online store prompts post by briefly revisiting the Year of Our Lord 1776. In was in that year that a political economist named 
Adam Smith, published the momentous book "An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations". From this work sprang the memorable passage: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”. Succinctly, what we are told, is that back then, businesses, whether small, medium or large, provided and ...