I have been contacted by several newsagents in the last 24 hours about the role of the ANF in promoting Bill Express to new newsagents at the ANF run newsagents training course. In each case they say the ANF participated with Bill Express employees in promoting Bill Express to new newsagents. This included talking up the rebates. I am told there was no mention that the rebates could be removed at any timer.
One newsagent told me that they explicitly asked the ANF representative if the ANF had checked Bill Express out. The answer was they had and that it was a good deal. The ANF staffer did not disclose that they worked for an organisation which made a commission from its endorsement of Bill Express.
Keeping its own arrangement secret meant that newsagents did not have all relevant facts when considering the advice on the ANF on Bill express.
Some associated with the ANF put it about that I am obsessed with the organisation. This is not the case. I am concerned that the ANF did not disclose its own commercial relationship with Bill Express each time it promoted Bill Express to newsagents. I have put these and other issues to the organisation and it has not responded.
Mark,
Keep up the good work with this blog.