I have heard of newsagents recently being offered a margin of more than 50% for physical phonecards. This type of margin is unsustainable. You run the risk of selling a phonecard which will stop working before your customer has used up all of the credit. You wouldn’t want to be at the shop if that happens, when they customer blames you for them losing money.
The only reason I could see a phonecard company selling phonecards with a retailer margin above 50% is because they are desperate for cash. While extra margin for your business might be attractive, there is a real risk that this short term cash gain could do harm to your reputation.
What if the phonecard company pushing the bonus margin cards runs out of cash? What if they shut down as a result? What if your customers are left without a working phonecard?
I know a bit about phonecard company margins and offer the advice in this post as a genuine warning to newsagents who may not know of the risk inherent in such an unsustainable retailer margin.
are you talking about early bird ph
Eric I am talking about any physical card where you are offered a commission of more than 50%. Beware!
Anyone else having problems selling phone credit today ? Telstra credit will only sell the higher price ones
Even the higher value vouchers are not available now
Still no Telstra Prepaid today apart from $70 and $200 vouchers. Just received a Touch email saying issue with recharge won’t be fixed until Monday. I smell something fishy though, because just went over the road to the local IGA and they have all Telstra recharge denominations available. What the!
we received an email from touch saying the Telstra pre paid vouchers are out of stock!!! How does an electronically generated product get out Of stock? WTF!!!!
Had the same problem with e-pay as well so no mobile recharges for Telstra here today.
Was working today but not yesterday ,but then again I only sold one