Re: Trouble gettin' stuff? [CLEAN STAMP]

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.

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