The Graphic Arts Exchange is all about facilitating the transfer of information between equipment dealers and you, the general trade. We strive to offer as much information to the most people with the fewest obstacles standing in the way. Because of this, the vast majority of features and information located throughout the Graphic Arts Exchange are available to everybody, whether or not they are a registered member!

From as simple of a concept as viewing listings to as complex as sending those listings to anyone with an e-mail address, unlike the majority of our competition we allow access to almost everything to anybody who visits our site without requiring them to give us a single bit of information…

There are, however, several things that you have to be a member of the Exchange in order to access or take advantage of. Some call them advanced features, we call them extended membership benefits; whatever you want to call them, they can be a very important part of your browsing experience. The most important of these benefits include:

Contacting Dealers without providing them with personal information:

The Graphic Arts Exchange allows you to contact any dealer within our system in regards to any listing - directly from that listing. Because the Exchange incorporates an integrated communications system, it is possible to send a dealer a message by simply filling out a form located directly in the listing itself. The dealer receives this contact from the Graphic Arts Exchange, not you, and is able to respond directly through our system; all without ever knowing your organization's name or e-mail address. This helps protect your identification and limits the amount of unsolicited commercial contact you receive from dealers looking to sell other items! (Please note that complete confidentiality in our system is not guaranteed and that all reasonable requests for information on the part of our dealers will be honored in response to irresponsible, abusive, fraudulent, or unlawful communications at our sole discretion.)

Circling Items for Later Reference:

Found a listing that you are interested in and want to come back and check out at a later point in time? The Graphic Arts Exchange makes that extremely easy for our registered users by providing them with the ability to 'Circle An Item' and save it in their account control panel. Log in and retrieve that specific listing from your control panel with just one click of your mouse, at any time, from anywhere!

Make An Offer Directly From a Listing:

When any of the dealers within our network create a new listing, they are given the opportunity to allow our members to make an offer on the contents of that listing. If they choose to include it, making an offer can be done directly from within the listing itself; just enter the amount you are offering, add any comments or additional information to your offer, and hit send. That's all there is to it! Remember though, you have to be a member to see if this advanced feature is even available… Let alone take advantage of it.

And Much More To Come:

While we may not have entirely exhausted the features that we can make available to the general trade without requiring registration, we have come very close. The same cannot be said for registered members of the Graphic Arts Exchange. From downloadable software and other items, to members only printed and electronic newsletters, to special member's only offers from our network of dealers; as we grow and prosper, more and more items will be made available only to those who have taken a minute of their time and registered.

And since membership is completely free and always will be, can you afford not to? Click here to sign up now!

 


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