Archived Reseller ban

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So what does everyone think about the new ban on selling electronics to resellers?

I see this ending badly when they threaten to complain and corporate overrides this.
 
It will hurt our store since our STL has said "Screw the guest if the reseller wants to buy them all, let him." As said on a Sunday when a reseller bought all the IPads when a sale started.. Over 50 of them..
 
I don't work on the sales floor or upfront...so excuse this question if it comes of as dumb. How does Spot know they are re sellers?
 
I dislike resellers as a guest but reality is they help make sales by buying our stuff. And like it or not, that's what we are working here for, to sell stuff.

Are they considering the lost revenue by limiting quanities (essentially).
 
I don't work on the sales floor or upfront...so excuse this question if it comes of as dumb. How does Spot know they are re sellers?

Well they usually buy large quantities of product and in my state they have licenses.. Buying 50 IPads is usually a clue.. We do make them buy the attachments though.. So if you are going to clean us out we are going to be green with attachments.
 
Wait, what's this new ban entail and when did it start? I haven't heard anything yet.
 
Well they usually buy large quantities of product and in my state they have licenses.. Buying 50 IPads is usually a clue.. We do make them buy the attachments though.. So if you are going to clean us out we are going to be green with attachments.
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one of the resellers that comes through our store routinely drops $10,000 (US). There is no store that is going to let that sale get away from them.
 
So what does everyone think about the new ban on selling electronics to resellers?

I see this ending badly when they threaten to complain and corporate overrides this.

lol my store limits stuff. We know who our resellers are and the electronics team tends to limit the amount of amiibos they can buy.
 
Nooooo!!!. Resellers are my stores only saving grace for aar. We seriously sold about 100k to one reselling company alone last year. I guess we'll just sell all the iPads to the fraudsters, without attachments of course.
 
I think @see spot save meant that attachments don't count towards AE anymore, but it's still a metric. As Electronics, I'm expected to have green AAR but it doesn't matter as much as it did, especially because my store is at a 54% AAR (red) but we are number one in the GROUP of 60 stores.
Right, sorry. Surely I'm confused. I haven't heard any of our Elec TMs bitch about it for months. We're also red, but more like 25 out of 50.
 
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I think @see spot save meant that attachments don't count towards AE anymore, but it's still a metric. As Electronics, I'm expected to have green AAR but it doesn't matter as much as it did, especially because my store is at a 54% AAR (red) but we are number one in the GROUP of 60 stores.
Were super close to green, but we're 38 out of 63 stores in the group.
 
The directive came down today from corporate. We no longer accept reseller tax exempt IDs and we are no longer to sell them to known resellers or those with lots of discounts.

The issue is, Target sells that stuff at a loss to get guests in the store to buy other stuff. Instead of a guest coming in and buying an iPad at a loss and then buying another $75 worth of clothing or whatever, we end up with a loss leader that isn't leading to any other sales.

Target isn't so concerned about the sales dollars on this stuff as they are with making a profit.

So we'll see.
 
Very interesting. I had no idea about this. That's going to hit our area pretty hard. Around my area there is a company that rolls by different Targets at different months. They notify the stores ahead of time and District has even made emails out to the stores directly to prepare the product for their arrival. 4 hours later we're wiped out of most of our Google Play and Itunes cards, all of our 3DS's and all of our significant Ipads. They even buy phones to attach the cards and bump the score. Most stores roll about 80-140k over in sales when they come around.

I suppose we will see if I hear anything about it at a huddle.
 
The directive came down today from corporate. We no longer accept reseller tax exempt IDs and we are no longer to sell them to known resellers or those with lots of discounts.

The issue is, Target sells that stuff at a loss to get guests in the store to buy other stuff. Instead of a guest coming in and buying an iPad at a loss and then buying another $75 worth of clothing or whatever, we end up with a loss leader that isn't leading to any other sales.

Target isn't so concerned about the sales dollars on this stuff as they are with making a profit.

So we'll see.


How can the stores not accept the tax exempt ID.
If the state issues the ID then the store has to accept it.
Unless you have some magic way of proving it's fake, or called the state and checked, I don't see how you can legally do this.
 
They may actually start limiting resellers to single purchase only.
They'll prolly just go over to Wallyworld unless they're doing the same thing there.
 
Sell it all! That what retailers are supposed to do. We sell stuff. Who cares who buys it.


There does come a problem when guests come in time after time for a deal and its always sold out by 8:05am. And we wheel out a pallet of Xboxes or a cart of IPads and everyone watches one guy buy them all.. And we have to tell everyone behind them "sorry sold out".. And where I am at a lot of the population votes with their feet they won't fill out a survey, they just never come back.. They have this happen a couple times we lose all the sales from them not just the sale loss leader.

I get that we are here to sell stuff but perception is reality, if the perception is "they never have what is on sale" why will people even bother coming in? You can get toilet paper lots of places.
 
Here's my idea: instead of banning resellers altogether, they should just be limited to Saturday nights and required to purchase multiple attachments per unit. If they can only buy the items on Saturday night, then guests have almost the entire week to buy them while they're on sale. And if the resellers get attachments, AAR is boosted and Spot doesn't lose as much money on the sales (because the profits come from accessories, not the core units; hence AAR).
 
How can the stores not accept the tax exempt ID.
If the state issues the ID then the store has to accept it.
Unless you have some magic way of proving it's fake, or called the state and checked, I don't see how you can legally do this.

I know in my state the liability for sales tax falls on the seller, meaning if Target decides they don't want to accept liability for the tax in the event the certificate is fake they can collect it from the person right there and then.
 
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