A colleague newsagent has experienced a quadrupling of his supply of Inked magazine this week. That’s right, supply from Network Services jumped from 4 to 15. We cannot see any apparent reason for such an increase. So, I am interested to know if any other newsagent experienced such an increase. Click on the image for a screen shot from the Tower Systems software for the newsagency – you can see the supply and return data for the last six issues of Inked magazine for this newsagency. There is no apparent reason for such an increase.
I know this happens often with both magazine distributors. They say there is a reason – a promotion, a glitch or a mistake. Yes, always a reason, always an excuse. Magazine distributor representatives need to understand that it is not their retail real estate, labour or cash put at risk by such ‘mistakes’.
If you received an increase in supply of Inked, please let me know.
We got an increased supply but we are a network connections agent with a mag stand. The extra copies were for 1 facing on the stand with the other two for fhm and zoo.. We have the balance of stock in the tattoo section in waterfall. Tattoo magazines do very well for us and we will sell more on the stand at front of store. Cheers Jeff
no increase here Mark.
NO INCREASE FOR US
no increase for us either.
ACTUALLY CUT BACK WHICH WAS A GOOD THING
Not that they have turned up
Ours also got lost along the way along with all our RLW, all partworks and British football weeklys
No increase here, but sales of last issue definately dropped off to zero from 3 per issue.
Our sales data is very similar to the image displayed & we received 15 this week.
No increase
We have sold 2 copies in 12 months, only got 1 the other day but this title gets early returned now anyway.
My supplies and returns of Inked are
3/3, 3/3, 3/3, 3/3, 3/3 and yet I still got another 3 yesterday. I received 3 x WD on sales based replenishment so the companies know exactly what I sell so why continue to send me a title with NO SALES at all. It only makes sense when one realises that the companies are going to be redistributing lots more product to us with the closure of Borders and A&R.
It only stands to reason. If only the ANF would do their job and re-negotiate the newsagency contracts which allow the companies to treat us with such disdain.
June , Top them and send the rest back in the mail in an unstamped envelope for the fun of it !!!
Now if every newsagent did this !!!
No Quadruple. 2 less than last issue.
If you want to talk Football+ now that is a problem.
Today I find out that this is a Network Rewards promotion – promoted in the Connections newsletter. Late notice there. Still not happy about having to fund extra stock.
June, I don’t want an association negotiating a contract on my behalf ever. I don’t think it’s their role.
Didn’t realise ACP owned inked.I thought only ACP titles were connections?
ANYONE GET THE MAGAZNE THE PLAN? @ 32.95 they can have it back half of it is not even english
As a subscriber instead of paying $9.95 a copy of your favourite 4WD magazine ,like you do if you buy it from the newsagent you will pay as little as $6.65 A COPY.That means on a 1 year subscription you would SAVE YOURSELF $49.50 This is just one of the MANY OTHER BENEFFITS I CAN OFFER YOU IF YOU BECOME A SUBSCRIBER
Careful Jim…..
WOW Jim did you just work that out and thought you should share it with the world .. ol Jim just thought he discoverd something new today .
Found it my mag today there for all to see
Jim it has been around probally since mags first started printing there is nothing new . you might find youself ringing them every month to find out why your mag is late . i often get customers asking when a certain mag comes out because they subscribe and it has not turned up yet .