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berndott:
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talking about alans, is the online shop bugged to you guys too?
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no its just you :LolLolLolLol:
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thanks mate, so i have to tune my mozilla browser :daumenhoch:
JT71:
--- Quote from: Trev on April 17, 2008, 05:05 PM ---I think a BMX only shop may struggle a bit unless it's as big as Alans or CR.
I'm not sure there is enough demand to succeed on BMX alone.
I don't know about other areas of the country and different parks, but to me it appears that only a couple of the kids really buy a lot of new stuff. The rest of it just seems to do the rounds. Most of the kids are generally running frames, forks, bars etc that are on their 4th or 5th owners.
I guess the shops must be making enough money though or they wouldn't do it.
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I think you are right Trev, Ride does BMX, Road bikes and Skate board stuff.
I'm looking at getting into some new school stuff (not Fly & Proper though) but I've seen your stuff, and whilst I don't know how well you do, which I'm sure is okay, I'm very conscious of getting stuck with loads of expensive year old stock no one wants.
meticulous:
alans has always been good to me too, but when a friend rang up the other day with intentions of getting advice about biulding up his 2007 pk ripper, the guy who he spoke too just kept saying look on the website, he didnt want that as a answer and wanted the guy to say yes we can do that, you need this you need that, sometimes it all depends on who you actually speak to.
Trev:
--- Quote from: JT71 on April 17, 2008, 07:56 PM ---I think you are right Trev, Ride does BMX, Road bikes and Skate board stuff.
I'm looking at getting into some new school stuff (not Fly & Proper though) but I've seen your stuff, and whilst I don't know how well you do, which I'm sure is okay, I'm very conscious of getting stuck with loads of expensive year old stock no one wants.
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I do okay, but barely enough to really make the effort worthwhile. I am aware the money is not gonna roll in instantly. Need to build up a reputation first. Every now and again you get a good week, but most of the time it's fairly quiet. The biggest problem is where you sell it. With some of the smaller stuff, the mark up is so low. If you sell it on ebay, it has to be cheaper than the main shops to attract the customers and by the time you've paid your insertion fees, your final value fees and your paypal fees, you'll be lucky to break even. But I'll tolerate that sometimes in order to help build up a good reputation.
You will end up with certain stock which no one buys then gets out of date and is worth squat (unless you keep it and the next generation of RAD members decide to build Mike Miller or Mark Webb replicas). A lot of the time, I'll let the old stuff go for less than cost price just to shift it. But hey ho, you've got to be in it to win it.
TwoBobRob:
When I had my little shop the biggest frustration was the distributors. They simply didnt have the quantities in to serve the little guys like me, so most often the limited stocks of new cool stuff went straight out to the bigger more established shops and I'd go begging.
I suspect the problem still exsists now. The shops just go ahead and advertise everything thats current and just live in hope that the distributor will actually have it on the shelf when they ask.....
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