I have noticed this for quite a while........HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD BUY THESE?

I wouldn't pay a plug nickel for any of them!!

Both these stores are hanging them in the middle of their packs on nails.....I think if they would use three nails across, maybe they wouldn't buckle?

AND/or, maybe they are buckling because we all (at least I do) like to flip through all the papers to look at them (although, I do try to be careful and probably most of us are very careful) and maybe we're causing this malady!!??

BUT, I think it's mostly because they're hanging.

I waited in line to get to a cashier.....and told her I thought they were shooting themselves in the foot, because I wouldn't pay anything for the BEST sale they ever had on them (I don't think anything will flatten them back to normal)....not even a plug nickel. I told her I basically made cards and I didn't think most scrapbookers would want them either....she said she was a scrapbooker.

She seemed to listen and I'm hoping she'll take it to heart and that they'll do something about it. (I was at Michael's....didn't think to tell them this when I was at Joann's earlier).

WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK? Does it bother you at all?

Char

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If you notice it is mostly the DCWV stacks that do that. I think it is the paper itself and not how it's displayed. I know when I used to buy their stacks alot, the always buckled after a time not matter how I stored them. I no longer buy DCWV paper for that very reason. They have fantastic designs but the paper quality is not up to what I want on my pages.

My J's hangs their paper as well, and I won't buy it. All the paper buckles, DCWV, K&CO, etc. I have spoken to the manager three times about this, explaining how once the paper is bowed, it does not always flatten out, and that the proper way to store the paper is flat. She did not seem to care. She said they were trying to fit more merchandise on their shelves. I told her I doubted anyone who knew anything about paper would actually purchase the bent and bowed stacks. She just shrugged and said, "oh well". My M's has always stored their stacks flat, but I did see some hanging when I was in there today. I hope they are not going to the hanging system. I buy their Recollections paper the most, as it cuts the best in my machine. Now, my HL has also always stored their paper flat, and their manager said they had no intention of changing that when I asked about that very thing today. GG

My Ms and Js have always stored their paper flat. I have never had an issue with the paper buckling. Lately though, both stores do have a few hanging, but you can still find a few of the hanging ones on the shelves laying flat too. Come to think of it, HL and ACM has paper stacks flat as well.

It doesn't really bother me. I rarely use an entire 12x12 sheet of patterned paper so if a corner here or there is bent I just won't use that part.

The DCWV stacks do buckle badly even when lying flat. I keep all my stacks lying flat at home but over time the sheets with "treatments" do buckle. I believe it is likely the adhesive used to keep down the glitter, foil, flocking, etc., that causes this.

The few stacks I have that are glitter-treated and/or the shiney-rubbery-treated ones (love some of these papers and I do love how they cut in the machines) have not buckled. Some of my papers I've had for up to three or four years. I usually do sell them off after a couple of years at a yard sale (when I have one every few years). They are still flat when I sell them. They well really good, too.

Those stacks have not buckled for me, either.

Char

My J's & M's has them hanging and standing up. If I buy any I take from the bottom of the stack, one with both of the stickers holdong them shut.

Since we are on the subject of DCWV, I have another issue:

1) the paper stinks. It takes a week of two to get the smell out of it.

2) The paper has a coating on it...I guess that's it. You would not be able to stamp directly on the paper is almost like a shiney coating. I don't seem to have any of the last two or three years paper with it. Can someone explain to me what is going on with that? I know it is with the kids birthday 12x12 and for sure on the Blue Solstice. Does this cause anyone problems??

My dh made a comment about that today. We were in J's and they had stacks standing up and leaning against the back of the display and they were buckled. He is in retail and noticed right away that they should be flat.

Oh....I was wondering why your DH would even care! LOL. Mine doesn't. He would NEVER notice something like that because he doesn't care!!! But, after further explanation I do see why your DH would definitely notice....it's his business to care.

I can't believe the managers themselves aren't seeing what these stacks are doing and taking fast measures to correct the problem. I mean, it doesn't even matter that these are JUST paper....any product you are trying to sell should remain in its original state. If they're getting these off the trucks, I would be sending them right back to whomever sent them to me in the first place.

I don't believe they're receiving them in this way, though. They are creating their own problems...and, as we can see, the ones laying flat are not in that condition (unless they have been laid down from hanging when someone took it down to look and didn't put it back.

Char

I hope everyone comes back to read this:

I was talking to a clerk at Joann's today......she does scrapbooks.....she said it doesn't matter that they are buckled......they will flatten out once you get them home and laying flat.

Now, I'm not sure I totally believe this....but she wasn't the least bit concerned about the fact they buckle. She said they come off the trucks that way.

So, what would you do with that? I think one of our OP said it didn't matter to her and maybe she also alluded to the fact it doesn't matter.

I'm still a little leery....of course, we're going to want to pick the best looking one. The reason I was so upset about it the other day was because I saw a stack at Michael's that I dearly loved. But, I didn't buy it.....five of them were all buckled. It was one of those that has the treatments and makes the pages look shiny and rubbery looking (don't know how to describe it).

Today, I went back to Joann's to see if they had a flat one and that's when I talked to the clerk at Joann's (had talked to one at Michael's the other day). They had a buckled one...didn't get it. I went to HL, since I had not gone there the other day....they didn't have it. So, I went back to Michael's and was tempted to get a buckled one....picked it up, put it back, picked it up (actually took it off the nail), put it back...and left it. LOL.

I did see two other similar stacks, though, and I immediately fell in love with them. I bought both of them....have probably NEVER bought two packs in one day.

Oh, while I was at Michael's, I told the young lady I told the other day what the lady at Joann's said....just in case there's a big controversy going on at Michael's over this! Just trying to be fair.

Char

I don't have any problems with my CS stacks that I can tell. I store them vertically in my Expidit, but they are packed in there pretty good so not much wiggle room LOL! I only keep the printed CS stacks like that though. The solid colored cs stacks I take apart and separate by color.