Hey guys,
Just wanted to throw something up here for the admins/moderators to look into. I recently tried to post up some products here for sale, and was told I had to pay the vendor fees. I was trying to post up about my Shelby dog collars and key chains for sale. Keep in mind, these are a low cost item. I don't know what the fendor fees are, but I would imagine for a basic vendor status is at least $50. If I were making and selling wheels, or cyl heads, or coilovers or something with a higher price tag, I can see those vendor fees being appropriate. However, these dog collars sell for $3-14, and yield only a couple dollars profit, just enough to cover my gas and efforts to get them made. So it would take me 25 sales just to cover my vendor fees. The bottom line: The current rules/regulations regarding the classified section are limiting the number of products available to the Shelby/Dodge crowd.
Some vendors on here sell thousands of dollars of products every year, others sell maybe a couple hundred, so how can the vendor fees be the same accross the board for everyone? I know of a few people selling lower priced items that can not sell their products here, because it's not cost effective by the time you figure in the vendor fees. Perhaps the fees could be pro-rated based on the selling price of the product? Or, as a persons product line grows, so do their fees.
If the little guys trying to start something are squished out before their product line has a chance to be seen and/or marketed, their products won't sell and the whole product idea will be scratched, which benefits nobody.
If things continue the way they are, there will be a number of Shelby products not available to the owners, because the forums are giving the sellers limiting options for marketing their products.....
Mark Christofferson
Just wanted to throw something up here for the admins/moderators to look into. I recently tried to post up some products here for sale, and was told I had to pay the vendor fees. I was trying to post up about my Shelby dog collars and key chains for sale. Keep in mind, these are a low cost item. I don't know what the fendor fees are, but I would imagine for a basic vendor status is at least $50. If I were making and selling wheels, or cyl heads, or coilovers or something with a higher price tag, I can see those vendor fees being appropriate. However, these dog collars sell for $3-14, and yield only a couple dollars profit, just enough to cover my gas and efforts to get them made. So it would take me 25 sales just to cover my vendor fees. The bottom line: The current rules/regulations regarding the classified section are limiting the number of products available to the Shelby/Dodge crowd.
Some vendors on here sell thousands of dollars of products every year, others sell maybe a couple hundred, so how can the vendor fees be the same accross the board for everyone? I know of a few people selling lower priced items that can not sell their products here, because it's not cost effective by the time you figure in the vendor fees. Perhaps the fees could be pro-rated based on the selling price of the product? Or, as a persons product line grows, so do their fees.
If the little guys trying to start something are squished out before their product line has a chance to be seen and/or marketed, their products won't sell and the whole product idea will be scratched, which benefits nobody.
If things continue the way they are, there will be a number of Shelby products not available to the owners, because the forums are giving the sellers limiting options for marketing their products.....
Mark Christofferson
i've been here the whole time. Just not the right person you need to chat with. Have you sent either of them a PM?
