Stolen Site Sign

ATH

We had our site sign stolen off a job this week.

For completeness, it was a metal, 2'x3' sign in a metal frame. It had a brochure box attached to the frame as well.

I was prepared for vandalism, but I wasn't prepared for it to completely disappear!

Needless to say, it cost us quite a bit of money. We have a second one that we'd like to make less likely to end up on a milk carton.

So my questions:

Do you folks chain your signs to a telephone pole?

Do you have any other way of making sure your sign stays where you put it?

Is this just a really rare event and I shouldn't really worry about it?

Thanks for your thoughts.

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world llc

it happens... alot

either competition getting rid of your face or someone who knows the value of frames

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rotarex

I really think other contractors take your sign, i my self haven't posted signs before but im scared to, because i know that other guys will steal my sign, just because i do amazing work

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Warren

Couple of years ago we worked on a site and Contractor put up his new very nice wooden sign.
Very same night, someone pulled it from the ground, leaned it against the porta jon and burnt them both to the ground.

Tinstaafl

Someone was doing you a favor. Put up a sign, and first thing you know an inspector is stopping in to see why you don't have a permit.

DavidC

I've only had it happen once. The missing sign reappeared on someone else's lawn 6 blocks away. Probably kids on the way home from school.

Good Luck
Dave

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outlaw

Sign?

I ain't seen no sign.

Why ya asking me?






Seriously, that is why I use the "disposable" ones

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SLSTech

GPS tracking???

Making it harder to steal? That's tough - if someone wants it, they will get it - the more visible it is, the more balls someone has to snag it. You can always chain it to a cinder block, but that looks tacky.

No chaining them to telephone or electrical poles - in most places you are looking at a fine & the electric or phone company removing it for a trip to the nearest dumpster

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platinumLLC

I get my signs from a local sign and banner shop. They are just a metal wire frame with a waterproof sign and logo. I don't remember what I paid but they are under 10 bucks a peice so it's not a huge loss. If I don't get back in the neighborhood to pick the sign up I will just leave it and it will be up till the homeowner decidees to take it down.

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MALCO.New.York

Do 8 to 4 Site Advertising!!

Treat them as tools and remove them at the end of the day.

Some exposure is BETTER than none and better than having to buy more!




Side note:

As I was checking Google Images for an example of the signs that I have used in the past, I came across this and just could not pass it up!!!!



http://www.scripting.com/images/bangherLeever.gif

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rotarex

is they where you can meet hookers and bang her and leave her

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480sparky

Install a Lojack.

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English Roofer

I have had a couple of instances where my signs had dissapeared! the first was on a job i had completed in Manchester, a lady rang me up to say my sign was on her front lawn, this was 3 mles from my compleated job! th funny thing was that before i could collect it someone phone me about a job in the same negbourhood lol!
The second one was recently, a guy calls me asking me a lot of questions and then says he has found my sign on top of a pile of timber he was collecting for a Pub B.B.Q i went to the pub and brought him a few beers for saving my sign.
Cheers
Dave

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woodchuck2

Sign stealing seems to be all over the place. Seems to that it is mostly competetors are stealing them or the owner is removing them. I personally dont use signs but the latest problem that i and several other electrical contratcors have had is a new electrical contractor in the area is removing all of our business cards that we leave at the local businesses and he leaves a pile of his own. We dont care if he leaves his own business cards but he shouldnt be taking all of ours just to "be rid of competition". He was caught by one contractor tossing a pile of our cards and the owner of one of the local stores caught him taking them.

ATH

Thanks for all the thoughts.

I guess I was assuming it was local kids since the weekend before it had silly string all over it. I strolled the local neighborhood to see if anyone had moved it without luck. Perhaps I'll get a call like some of the other's posted here that it has been found drunk and carousing somewhere and couldn't make it back to work in time.

I guess we'll have to think about going with cheaper signs if this is not a rare occurance.

I wouldn't really care if the inspector stopped in on this particular job. It's just a whole lot of paint!

The silver lining on this job is that we found such a nice client that she actually asked to help pay for the sign! No we did not take her money (for the sign).

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MALCO.New.York

Let this be a lesson in "Consumer Relations" for us Americans!

There is NOTHING that can not be settled over a Pint!!!


THANK YOU DAVE!

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strathd

I would be confronting him. Yes sir I would. And of course I would be very polite..........that. Or if you dont want to confront him call the A-Team. Not trying to show disrespect to you but man thats some dirty pool going on there bro.

MALCO.New.York

As ugly as it is........That is "The Cost of Doing Business"!

As Rockefeller, Gates, Jobs, Getty, Yadda, Yadda, Yadda did..... Kill or be killed. Death to the weak.

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joelv1967

Iv'e never used signs. Instead, find your painter sub/friend and have him get you a box of door hangers from Dunn Edwards (they're free). Put your card in it. They already say something to the effect of "We are working in the neighborhood". They can be used by more than just painters, and are quite effective. So effective that I had an inspector who was surprised that all 4 inspections he had scheduled on the same street for that day were mine. Four jobs simultaneously going, and I just walked back and forth between them.

Just hang a few as you come and go from the jobs

strathd

That is exactly what I was talking about.