Your Questions About Baby Care

quick q about babies r us (uk)?

heya

iv been looking at some items on thier website and as im one of these that ALWAYS buys in store im not 2 great at all the online shopping lol.

anyway, some of the things i want are ‘out of stock’ and it says the item is no longer availiable through thier direct service

for example:
http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Babies-R-Us/Travel-and-Pushchairs/Travel-Toys/I-Love-My-Bear-Curly-Toy(0017528)

does this mean that they have stopped doing it completely? or will they have more in stock in the future?
if not any ideas where else i can buy the things i want?

sorry if this seems a little stupid lol xx

thanks for ur help ladies xx

Where do you shop for baby clothes?

I’m in the UK. 80% of what I buy is from Asda and Matalan then occasionally Next and Pumpkin Patch.
She’s nearly 1 and needs 12 – 18 months clothes, where I usually go hasn’t got very much at the moment so I went to Next and bought 3 lovely outfits.
Where do you go and do you use online stores?

reborn doll shops UK?

hello,
i’d like to know if anyone knows of an actual reborn doll shop or shop that sells supplies to make reborns (life like babies) in the UK… i know of the ones on ebay, but i’d like to know if there is a place i can actually go to instead of buying online…
thanks

Becoming a UK distributor for US product. Help!?

I contacted the creator of a kids travel product in the US regarding becoming a UK agent with exclusive distribution rights for their product in the UK.
The woman who owns the product e-mailed stating that she has a UK distributor already but passed on my e-mail to her to see if we could work to “help each other”.
On receiving the e-mail from the UK distributor, my feelings that her own experience of selling this product were not going well (based on the ominous sounding suggestion of helping each other) were confirmed.
The “UK” distributor lives in Europe, not UK, and sent me the following e-mail suggesting that she is no longer actively promoting it:
“I have had the product for about 18 months…sold about 2,000 units…believe it can sell more but I have struggled with 2 big stores. I have been speaking to various people in those two stores for over a year….now email and they just do not answer.
I attended ******** fair last year where I made quite a few contacts, some ordered and then even though I contacted them after they never came back. I have retailers who do buy from me regularly. I have tried and retried wholesalers who also never get back to you even though I cut my margin right down to make it attractive for them….made the decision this year to concentrate on the smaller retailer and ran out of stock so I couldn’t do what I was planning to do.
I think things are still quite difficult and people are being very careful about new products, even though I don’t insist they commit to large quantities.
If you are still interested in promoting the product and can think of how we might work together, I would be more than happy to chat about it. What is important to remember is the margins and the price it is in the market.
So as a Distributor I would look at making 20 – 25% on the cost price including shipping and duty, the retailer will want to make 40- 50% at least and on top of that is VAT at 20%, the market price for the product is £17.99 – £21.99. So to employ someone sell to the big stores you would have to give some of the margin away, and on 20 – 25% there is not much there to give away.
However, it all becomes more economic on volume so that is something to think about – so as I said if you think there is a way we can work together – lets chat about it. It will have to be by e-mail as I live in ****.”

The product is not stocked in any major stores in the UK but is a must have travel product for parents with young children – for their sanity! lol. So I know it can sell big. From what I have learned, it is available to UK buyers only online from US sources and from the “UK distributor” who sells it on her online shop based in Europe where she lives. It is not marketed in Britain, to my knowledge.
My idea was to source a sales rep with experience in the baby industry to pitch the product to major retailers and pay them a commission.
I know this product will compliment other products stocked by the retailers that I have in mind, but I now do not know if I have any real options here. I have absolutely no experience of sales so this is all very new to me and I really need advice on how to approach the distributor in reply to the e-mail she sent to me. How would I work with her? Would I get stock from her? Would she want me to pay her for me doing all the leg work in the UK? I don’t want to ask all of these things as I would like a second opinion on the e-mail first and it also appears that she’s waiting for me to approach her with an idea for how to increase her sales.
My concern is that I give her my ideas and then never hear from her again so what is the 1st step?
She is clearly not doing the product justice and I may not have the experience, but have worked hard over the last few days (when I 1st thought an item like that would be handy! lol) researching the best way to sell this product, who and how to sell it to and having no experience, of course I would be delighted to work with someone who has more experience than I do, but I’m not sure what to say in reply to her e-mail.

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