The ABC yesterday launched a new Football magazine, an annual. The thing is, I can’t find a newsagent with this title. The TV commercial says that it’s at a number of retail outlets including newsagents. Hmm … I wonder what went wrong. Based on our AFL record sales I think we could easily sell 30 or more copies of this new ABC title. That’s close to $300 in sales. If only we had the stock for the launch day.
Mumbrella has more including a copy of the TVC. This is where I got the cover shot from.
Newsagents, if you got the title please let me know.
Mark,
we received 2 copies up here in Qld, where we are lucky to sell anything AFL except when we have southern visitors in the winter.
I received 2 copies on Friday (but no electronic file). AFL is not a big drawcard in my store, but I have displayed them next to the NRL Season Guide with the papers anyway.
Am in metro Qld, by the way.
They downloaded but no stock.
Plenty here in the ACT
Got 10 Which is about right compare to the Record
Recieve 13 Record 3 left
I too am in QLD and recieved 3 copies yesterday……i reckon i could sell 10 or more but will see how i go with these first. I received 9 copies of the NRL season guide and sold out in a day, tried to order more but was told distributor had no more stock. Rang publisher direct and am hoping they can get me some more. I think with the launch of footy season in all codes we should be given an opportunity to choose the amounts allocated. As Jill said, she doesnt do that well with AFL where as i do and am still in QLD.
Surely it couldnt be that hard………
Also received them here in ACT
Received 7 here in country Vic . I liked the plug on ABC radio yesterday morning for buying it at newsagents until the end of it when they said it was available for FREE at the head office shop. A good place to get your supply Mark
Also us in Qld
Distributor?
GG
We got 20 here Mark.
xchangeit downloaded the labels but no
stock here in SA either.
Left hand doesn’t know what right hand
is doing methinks
GG 12724
we got 45 copies at $8.95 and we are a small agency
20 copies arrived 17/2 Albury
David, do you think you will sell 45 ? I am asking this because i got sent 3 as i have already said but had i been asked i may have probably committed to taking a dozen or so copies. This would have been a perfect publication to ask Newsagents to decide their allocations……because we are so diverse in area and demographics. Even when you have more than one news agency in the same town sales will vary from store to store. I am a huge footy fan so i would expect my sales to be greater than someone who is not…..its just horses for courses.
Cheers
Al
I am gobsmacked that Gotch can send us new titles which don;t sell yet overlook sending us a new title which would sell. hang on, no, I am not gobsmacked.
We got a dozen copies, I wont sell more than 2 of them.
None here in country WA yet.
Receive 0, already order extra, will come monday hopefully
What a distribution mess!
G&G code 12724. We received 10 but this maybe only been because I recently trawled their site for all things AFL to make sure we did not miss out on anything.
It appears that Victoria has to a large degree missed out on a mag that would sell better here than any other state.
allan@ 17
it does make perfect sense for this to be an ordered title…
Received 3 copies in todays delivery.
It would seem that AFL states got little and NRL states got plenty.Not very smart.
WA metro we got none
different title same old mess welcome to our world
Alan, for them to allocate correctly they
would have to analyze our data through xchangeitedi like we were told they would???????
By the way I was allocated 20 but they were “lost” on the way and extras came this morning.
The “lost” copies were on an invoice by themselves so WHOMEVER HAS THEM KNOWS THAT THEY ARE MINE.
This industry has a bad record of this type of thing. IT IS CALLED STEALING?
Surely if the companies can tell how many copies we have sold they can also tell if
someone puts TOO MANY through retailer therefore telling the company WHO HAS THE PRODUCT THAT WAS STOLEN, and
then maybe they could prosecute someone
and put the other thieves on red alert that
they would no longer get away with it.
Then again – digressing – it could be that
they are stolen BEFORE they reach another agent??????????? Once again
it could easily be checked but hasn’t been
for the past 33 years. It is simply a joke.
June it can be checked with sales history that gets sent back each day ,i know from past experience where i have made a claim for stock missing and purchased the very same stock from woolies but not of the same quanitys and only a few mag tittles and not the whole invoice only to be recharged from the guys at GG for the whole invoice because they get the sales data and then think you have the stock . So if they can do this they should be able to do it for stolen stock