Some bright spark decided we should receive 12 copies of the Renovators Organiser, a publication with a six month on-sale period. The Renovators Organiser is difficult to efficiently display because of its odd size, it has a high cover price, a very long shelf life and does not easily fit the magazine category as it is more of a book. We have returned nine of the twelve copies we were sent in one newsagency and seven of the ten copies sent to another newsagency. We made these decisions decision based on sales of renovation magazines in our newsagencies.
The publisher, 27 South Pty Ltd, and the distributor, Network Services, will probably be unhappy with what I have written. I’d ask them to put themselves in the shows of newsagents. Someone sends you $240.00 worth of an item you did not order, have never sold and which is unlikely to sell. They expect you to keep this on your shelves for six months and pay them for the stock on 30 day terms. Every time this happens it takes our capital and attention away from top selling magazines and other more important parts of our businesses.
If a publisher has a great idea of a fringe magazine or related product they need to finance the risk of putting stock on our shelves. It is unreasonable theyt use newsagent money to fund their business.
When is there going to be something done about this .As i have said before i am fairly new to all this just over 12 months as a newsagent ,is this something that has been going on for years or are they getting worse at it . I have previously cancelled a tittle twice over the last six months with NDD and for some reason it just keeps turning up again i have never sold a copy of the magazine but yet i continue to get it .Besides sending emails and endless phone calls there has been no result, they do stop it for me then hey presto it comes in again.
we got them yesterday, and I opened one to have an idea of its contents.
The fact that it is in plastic will deter having a better look at its contents for the hefty price.
However by leaving it unwrapped, the contents will be prone to damage as the clear bags will easily tear.
I will do early returns too.