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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