We stopped receiving The Economist in January, almost twelve months ago. We never sold any copies and were finally successful in stopping this title. This morning, we received the Economist from Network once again. There is no sales history whatsoever to support the reintroduction of the title to our newsagency. The only reason I can see is that it helps Network reach its revenue budget based on how full the trucks are.
I am not alone. This sort of thing happens every magazine delivery day to newsagents around the country.
Network is the first company to aggressively pursue newsagents for payment of accounts yet refuses to accept any accountability for the supply of titles without justification. They create the accounts problem yet accept no responsibility.
Mark
I have had this happen with other titles exactley the same behaviour. You stop it get rid of it and 6 – 12 months latter it magically reappears.
Economist – I have never sold a copy.
Today NDC tripled my supply.
We have never sold one and they keep on sending it! So much for sales data that they insist on getting.
I have never sold a copy either and they continue to send 1 – 3- 2 -3 1- never a standard order it just seems they have to make a budget that moth and this is one of a lot of tittles that they do this with
does anyone sell it ?
Is it a double issue whereby last years history was factored in?I certainly got a small supply increase but unlike you guys this title s a strong one for me in the ACT
I should also said I notrmally get 2 sell and return 1. Today I got 4.
Here comes the pre Xmas rush of mags, must get those Xmas bonuses paid for!
anyone know the cut off date for gotch
Shaun, it’s the 29th December. I have just spoken to G&G
and who said there was no santa . i would have placed bets that they would have made it the 28th just so they get to sting us with wed supply .
We have been receiving The Economist from Fairfax up to the previous issue – always 1 every week, 0 sales every week – and much harder to get supp credits from Fairfax than Network. But seriously, we shouldn’t have been receiving them at all since we had 0 sales for the last 6 months.
Network Services keep making it harder and harder to get the magazines you want and to keep track of what you should have. Taking the supplied quantity off the return forms was just mean but the savage oversupply of useless titles then under supplying the popular ones is what gets me. I sell one or 2 time mags each month but they keep taking it off me. Now it is almost impossible to adjust your supply’s on their web site. Network Services and Gordon and Gotch are unfair and they should be held accountable!!!
I have tried to have this title stopped at least 4 times this year. The latest was last week. This week tey send me double. I can’t delete it because the 1 copy I did’t return, which was stolen, means I have “an average sale”. Same goes for British Football Weekly. I sell 1-2 copies, this week they send me 10 copies after repeated attempts to reduce it from an ever increasing allocation. Inever used to send them my sales data and I never had these issues, ever since this new Xchangeit compliance I have supplied data, to which both companies abuse it. Stuff it paying twice the cost for being noncompliant on Xchangeit is cheaper than the cost of these unwanted titles.
Bill, We are non-compliant (ie we cannot send data to XChangeIT), yet we still experience oversupply of slow moving titles (and undersupply of great selling titles!). The problem is the distributors do not actually use the data that software suppliers and XChangeIT have worked so hard to share.
speaking of xchangeit, has anyone notice that EDI data from GG is wrong? i.e. cost price in EDI is different from paper invoice price?
if you have not, try to look at the coming week’s GG edi data and look at paper invoice. they want us to send accurate data yet send us wrong info.
I must be one of the lucky ones….ssshhh!!! I wont say it too loud but I successfully cancelled mine in July this year and no sign so far….
well we all see it is a new year and a new start to what should see some changes (hopefully)
I am always to happy to winge about our mates at Network but this time round i would like to give them a big old thumbs up for the way they are handleing the delayed magazine deliverys . it makes life a hell of a lot easier this way