Re: Trouble gettin' stuff? [CLEAN STAMP]

On 17 Sep 99, at 13:57, Matthew Seidl wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:16:57 -0400, "Rick Rutherford" writes:
> >
> >In a perfect world, you would have an agent who would stock the
> >distributors' shelves with your product on a monthly basis, and would
> >bill them monthly according to how much stuff was needed to be
re-stocked.
> >
> >If you think you know how much of what item will sell within a
3-month
> >peroid, you might be willing to ship them a rack of figures,
rulebooks
> >and terrain at the beginning of a quarter, and take returns from them
> >at the end of the quarter, billing them for whatever doesn't get
> >returned. This would eliminate some of their risk for them, and get
more
> >of your stuff into their warehouse.
> >
> 
> The trouble with this is that it ties up a LOT of money in capitol.
> Wares sitting the the distributer's shelves and not making you money
> for months.
> 
> Also, it puts a lot of trust in the distributer to pay you on time and
> not stiff you with either unreturned merchandise or unpayed bills.
> Although Geohex and GZG are pretty upstanding, a lot of people in this
> business are less so.

Add to that the fact that you never can tell if or when someone will 
go chapter 11 . . . 

KR

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