Business Pole Vs. Pole - The Giant’s Cox
posted by on March 16 at 12:53 PM
Doug Cox, owner and founder of Poster Giant, who had a gun pulled on him while postering says they aren’t the evil empire everyone thinks they are.
You want to hate Poster Giant, but after talking with Doug, you see there are always two sides to an argument. Doug says:
Yeah, the guy pulled a gun on me. It was an argument that escalated. I have the case number in my wallet and when I see him again, I’ll call the Cops. It’s ridiculous for people to get violent over this.Including me, Poster Giant has 3 employees. It’s true, sometimes we cover other posters, but it’s not something we set out to do. With 80 to 100 shows to poster for, it’s a huge work load. I provide a service to my clients. If they don’t see their posters up, my phone rings off the hook and I lose them as clients. If I don’t do a good job postering, I don’t have a business.
Everyone talks about how we’re unethical, and it’s not true. Where’s the book on ethics, show me. I’m not breaking any laws. It’s not ethical for me to cover up your poster, but it’s ok for you to cover up mine?
I run a business. That’s how postering goes. Some of your posters are going to get covered. This is America, it’s capitalistic. Don’t just bitch about it, go do something about it. Go poster again, beat me at it. I think competition is healthy. We work really hard here. We work really hard to serve our clients and make them happy. I value my smaller bands as much as my corporate clients.
Poster Midget says they have tried to talk to us and settle our differences and work things out, but that’s not true. I have tried to call them, but they don’t want to talk. They just want me to look like this bad guy.
And I’m not that bad guy. We’re actually the only postering company that obeys the law. 4 times a year, we go around and take down all the old posters, which is what you are supposed to do. But no one else does that. And I do a bunch of benefit shows. We help out as much as we can. I regulate the posters as fairly as I can.
Truth is, there are only so many poles, and only so much space. You have to be dedicated and stay at it. I’m open to talk to anyone who has a problem with Poster Giant. I work hard and will keep working hard. I think if we keep up all this arguing and complaining, they’re going to put the poster ban back in effect, and then there won’t be any poles to poster on at all.
I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on most of that, but as to "obeying the law" . . . so, they've never pasted posters up on poles, making them impossible to remove? They always use staples or tape? I am skeptical.
Let's have a Poster Giant / Midget conference. Who should I believe?
I think they both just cover everyone else's shit and don't care.
Do they know who pulled the gun yet?
I'd be interested to know who that was and who he's with.
Doug is completely full of shit. The only posters that are on poles are the ones put up by Poster Giant. All other posters are ripped down or covered up. The problem is that Poster Giant has a monopoly on postering. They get TOO much business. If Doug were smart he would focus on other guerrilla marketing techniques as well as postering, in order to free up the poles for the public to use therefore eliminating the constant hatred directed at PG. Instead his business only focuses on postering which forces them to be constantly out tearing down and putting up posters. Doug is also a very vindictive business owner who WILL tear down your posters if he is not getting your business. This is a fact. Don't believe his boo-hoo poor me bullshit.
Hillbilly,
You aren't packing heat are you?
Yeah, I bet Poster Midget aren't the saints they say they are.
They're both retarded. Who still goes to sows based on seeing some crappy poster?
Totally, if I want to see a sow, I'll check my farmer's almanac, not some crappy poster.
Hey, don't knock the posters Eric, sometimes if you go to the advertised show you'll see plenty of sows...
No, it's all cocks and pole on posers at the sows.
-- i think companies are doing just what they should: providing a service to all of us lazy band members, too-old-to-post wannabe rockers and club promoters. my hat is off to both groups (and all those who work on their own as well). it's a hard job and surely no fun. without poster-posting bipeds, us music-making types are only good in a practice space without power and without fans to see/hear us.
I can't wait till they get planes with the long trailing banners. Then they can have air poster banner duels, like Snoopey vs. the Red Baron.
Oh shit, Snoopy doesn't have an e in it.
There are so many bands and shows and only so many poles. Come on dudes, if you see a show that obviously isn't promoted by a postering company and it hasn't happened yet, DON'T FUCKING COVER IT. I know you have a hundred shows to poster for, but you should still try to cover a poster of a show that has already happened bfore you just take the best spot.
Whoever pulled the gun is the biggest dumbass ever. You wanna pull a gun, go save some lady from being robbed or stop the crack deal that's happening right down the street. We're talking about show posters here.
I've never seen those cool concert posters (Kozik, Coop, etc.)outside of a book or on Ebay or some other expensive online poster shop. Where the hell are those ever on display except art galleries?
This town needs build poster kiosks around town and sell space by the square inch equally to all the poster puter-uppers. Revenue should go to the arts.
Elswinger has a very good idea with the poster kiosks.
Who would regulate them? Where would they put them? How would you make it so that the posters didn't get covered by someone that didn't pay for space?
Revenue going to "the arts" seems iffy.
We could get the guy w/ the gun to guard them all.
i tear down posters of bands i don't like.
PG are snitches. I would shoot those fucking pussies if I thought they wouldn't tell on me. OK, I know guns are bad. I would beat them with my fake leg.
If you ever use any of these services you should notice, if it is a cool poster, that they WILL show up on Ebay, at $10-15 bucks a pop. Yep, you give them 100 to post, they will put up may 30 and keep the rest and sell them on Ebay. So you are paying them to rip you off. What a great scam!
Belive me, I'd love to bitch about posters being torn as much as the next guy, but it's just going to happen, and there's nothing anybody can do about it. Poster etiquette (to the extent that it ever existed) is dead, but it's not exclusively the fault of either of these companies.
Secondly, I've done business with PG quite a few times, and after seeing their operation, anyone would realize how ridiculous it is to accuse them of being "the man" in this situation. For the record, I've tried to use PM a couple times, but their slowness/complete lack of communication was too frustrating.
#16: Actually, people like you are a much bigger problem. That kind of maliciousness for its own sake is pretty fucking stupid.
i have never seen such big giant posters as before well its a new good idea in posters
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