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Just thought Id add this;
If you become a dealer for Brand X and Brand X is also down the street at your local competitor. Regardless of how bad you are doing with a line the rep has no legal right to remove the line from your store.
As long as the dealer agreement is in place Brand X will stay.
[ March 05, 2005, 12:22 PM: Message edited by: MITEK CANADA ]
If you become a dealer for Brand X and Brand X is also down the street at your local competitor. Regardless of how bad you are doing with a line the rep has no legal right to remove the line from your store.
As long as the dealer agreement is in place Brand X will stay.
[ March 05, 2005, 12:22 PM: Message edited by: MITEK CANADA ]
The rep/distributor can legally halt doing business with your store if there are credit department issues. (dealer owes distributor a lot of money).....
I am no lawyer but I also assume if parts of the dealer agreement are breached/broken by the dealer the distributor/manufacture might have a legal right to terminate.
Kevin
[ March 05, 2005, 12:31 PM: Message edited by: loudtdi ]
I am no lawyer but I also assume if parts of the dealer agreement are breached/broken by the dealer the distributor/manufacture might have a legal right to terminate.
Kevin
[ March 05, 2005, 12:31 PM: Message edited by: loudtdi ]
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Originally posted by mike bisson:
everyone loves the fat man [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/beer.gif[/img]
everyone loves the fat man [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/beer.gif[/img]
[ March 05, 2005, 05:57 PM: Message edited by: Team Shadow ]
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tim ,all opinions of people that i have are my own, some based on people that i trust opinion, others made on my own. some people you just dont have to meet to not like, i am one of those peoiple. i am a like me or hate me kind of person, no grey area. i call it like i see it, and im outspoken, this sometimes leads to feelings getting hurt, but i guess that the way it is
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maybe time to shift this thread in another direction, peoles feelings and all. 10 years ago sales reps for companies were very loyal to the companies they represented. now it seems that these same people who bled company blood are changing lines they represent like they change their gonch. its been interesting to see reps in the store 1 month pitching me on concept and then 6 monhts later, the flavour of the month had changed and now swiss audio or whatever is the best for me. there has been a deteriorating lack of loyalty in the rep business for the last 5-6 years or so, why do you thnik that that is? i know that i bleed alpine and avi blood, tim bleeds mitek, lethal bleeds kicker and so on. does this lack of loyalty for the brands that these guy rep not affect the credibility in anyones eyes. it does a little in my eyes, now i understand that these guys have to make a living, lets face it, most of them arent making as much cake as they used to(maybe that holds true on the retail end, im not to sure about people on this board) and they have to support themselves. as well its been fun to see people changing jobs, going from reps to sales and vice versa(sp). what do you think makes a guy go from retail to repping and the opposite. there have been many opportunities over the years for me to change but i could never see myself doing it, i dig the thrill of the sale and getting to see and build a job from start to finish, its what does it for me, im not sure that i could live without it, whats everone else think. i tried to word this as to not hurt anyones feelings. i hope nobodys feeling were injured during the reading of this post. btw, im off to alpine kewl school in fernie, i issed the 1st 2 days of it because we were at a show all weekend, but i will be there for the steve brown install session and and going to corner jason kemmerer for at least an hour, for those who dont know who he is, he used to be a engineer for scanspeak and has most recently designed the typex woofer and f#1 speakers and amp for alpine, a very highly respected guy in the world of speaker design and engineering, i cant wait, so many questions to ask
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Originally posted by MITEK CANADA:
Just thought Id add this;
If you become a dealer for Brand X and Brand X is also down the street at your local competitor. Regardless of how bad you are doing with a line the rep has no legal right to remove the line from your store.
As long as the dealer agreement is in place Brand X will stay.
Just thought Id add this;
If you become a dealer for Brand X and Brand X is also down the street at your local competitor. Regardless of how bad you are doing with a line the rep has no legal right to remove the line from your store.
As long as the dealer agreement is in place Brand X will stay.
so you were lied to by a rep that i deal with, did he steal from you . do you feel that i am in jeopardy of being affected negatively by this rep and the way he does business...
...is it possible that you were canned from having the line becasue you didnt support it enough and the other larger store did...
...if he did in fact lie to you, what did you do about it, how did you feel about it and how will that affect the way you may do business with him again if your paths do cross.
...is it possible that you were canned from having the line becasue you didnt support it enough and the other larger store did...
...if he did in fact lie to you, what did you do about it, how did you feel about it and how will that affect the way you may do business with him again if your paths do cross.
- We supported it well. It was our #2 car line and from what I heard at the time, we sold within 10% of the other store. It was a power move, plain and simple. They tried the same thing with another brand we had but that distributor had some integrity...
- What did I do? I replaced the brand and SOLD THE HELL OUT OF IT. And guess what - that brand appreciated it. Life was good.
I have little chance of encountering the guy again. I stand by the fact that I would not do business with them.
As for your new topic - some reps love a brand and stick with it until for whatever reason they cannot afford to or have a moral dilemma supporting it. Others feel free to pick up and drop lines at their leisure.
Along the same line, some brands and distributors seem to keep a rep for along period of time while others are always looking for new people.
I prefer to deal with the former rather than the latter in either case.
A good rep is hard to come by, there are very few that fall into this category. When the distributor is at fault, well that is just a whole new can of worms. Are there some bad distributors that don't care about your bottom line and only theirs, yup, there are many of them. That's the nice thing about being an indipendent, I can pick and choose from whoever I see fit. If a rep burns me, I too get right salty about it and will not buy from their distributor again until the issue has been resolved.
And I hate being "double shipped" by accident and then held hostage over it as well. WTF do I need with $22,000 of cd players for? [img]graemlins/freak.gif[/img]
I have also noticed how a company that used to sell to me on credit will no longer do so....do I owe them $, no.....could it be that a big box burned them and they cannot afford to give credit anymore.....I says I think so.
I also hate when a distributor goes and opens a competitor 15 minutes away from you with the exact same lines and then allows that competitor to butcher said lines for 2 years (or more) and destroy the brand in the market place. I guess the only good thing here is that the competitor chose to model his store after yours. Seems that the distributor was not happy with some good numbers, they figure that if I can do this much, then another store can double it.....not when they do not understand the local market and it's conditions. The latter stores are now out of business.
edit for the edit - not done by reps in this case but done by head office.
[ March 08, 2005, 02:57 PM: Message edited by: MR2NR ]
And I hate being "double shipped" by accident and then held hostage over it as well. WTF do I need with $22,000 of cd players for? [img]graemlins/freak.gif[/img]
I have also noticed how a company that used to sell to me on credit will no longer do so....do I owe them $, no.....could it be that a big box burned them and they cannot afford to give credit anymore.....I says I think so.
I also hate when a distributor goes and opens a competitor 15 minutes away from you with the exact same lines and then allows that competitor to butcher said lines for 2 years (or more) and destroy the brand in the market place. I guess the only good thing here is that the competitor chose to model his store after yours. Seems that the distributor was not happy with some good numbers, they figure that if I can do this much, then another store can double it.....not when they do not understand the local market and it's conditions. The latter stores are now out of business.
edit for the edit - not done by reps in this case but done by head office.
[ March 08, 2005, 02:57 PM: Message edited by: MR2NR ]
