Review on 🖼️ Craig Frames 18x24 Inch Black Contemporary Picture Frame - Sleek and Modern Design by Karen Forsey

After reading all the positive reviews on this product I thought I had found a good framing solution for half or a third the price of higher quality frames. Big! Go ahead and buy an A1 size frame (about 33" x 23"). Unfortunately, the old "get what you pay for” trope applies here all too well. The cost of the frame has been reduced to the maximum at the expense of a reduced quality. The plexiglass is ultra-thin and very shiny, the frame moldings are made of a man-made material that lacks rigidity, and the substrate is literally the same corrugated cardboard that the package arrived in! It would be nice if the frame still provided a reasonable representation, but unfortunately it doesn't. At least in the frame size I wanted, the suspension wire, which took the weight of the frame, allowed the sidebars to sag inward, and the thin cardboard backing offered no resistance. As a result, due to the internal pressure of the sidebars, the print I showed immediately formed vertical waves that caught the light, and this, combined with the glossy plexiglass, made this fragment almost impossible to see reasonably in normal daylight from anyone on the other side. corner than straight. See photo"before". Not good. The solution was a $4 piece of Home Depot hardboard that, once cut to size, replaced the original cardboard backing and added the needed rigidity. Please look at the photo"after". Total travel time to the Home Depot, cutting and reinstalling is approximately 2 hours. So was this repair worth it? Well, everyone has to judge that for themselves, but I probably wouldn't have bought it had I known about its shortcomings beforehand. And at a selling price, I believe, at least 2-3 times more than wholesale materials and labor. Cost, would it really kill them if they spent a few bucks more on materials that would actually make it usable?